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Santa Clara Meditation How to Live Well – Life Advice: How do I live in the moment? Originally Answered: Life Advice:How do I live in the moment?
Seize the day !!!
It is a scene from one of my favorite movies, ‘The Dead Poets’ Society.’ John Keating, played by Robin Williams, talks to the students. “Carpe diem.” Seize the day. “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.” The Latin term for that sentiment is “Carpe diem.” Make yourself extraordinary!!!
I could not forget the moment I watched it for the very first time. I felt so touched. I thought I really had to do something to make myself extraordinary. I loved it.
The same name, ‘Seize the day,’ is a film version of Saul Bellow’s novel starring Robin Williams. The book says, “Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe; That’s the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real–the here-and-now. Seize the day.”
When I throw the ball to my dog, the dog goes to catch it as if he is playing the game for the first time, and when you feed him, he eats as enthusiastically as if for the first time. He watches the house every night, being busy here and there, growling in response to the footsteps outside the house and doing his job diligently, as if each night is a new and fresh experience.
What about people? Do we live in the moment? How do you live in the moment?
Isn’t the reason why many people want to live in the moment that we don’t live in the present?
Many people say the past is gone, so the past does not exist in the world, and the future hasn’t come yet, so the future does not exist either. However, we live our lives obsessed with the past and future even though we are in neither.
Most of us regret our past and live in insecurity and anxiety about our future.
I have a body in the present world, but I am bound by the past, which is not in the world, and I constantly relive my past life. What is more, I have anxiety and worry about the future based on the past. What if this happens? What if that happens? So I’m doing something right now, but I’m not in the moment, and my mind is wandering far away.
Everyone must have spent time sitting in front of their desks at least once without reading a line correctly. There must have been a time when you wasted your time with useless thoughts.
Obstacles that keep me from moving forward; Hindrances. They distract me and make me unable to concentrate. If you can get out of that place, it will be true freedom. Then I need only do what I have to do and achieve results. That will be living in the moment and being faithful to the present.
But the disturbance comes up out of nowhere and makes me distracted, stressed, and suffering. We make a lot of effort to escape this seemingly unbreakable yoke of life. Even if I take a walk, chat with my acquaintances, shop, and travel, obstruction is always in my heart like a rock.
The most fundamental way, I think, is to erase things that make me not live in the moment. Fortunately, through meditation, I was able to clear the obstacles that prevented me from living in the moment. They are illusions that exist only in my mind. It’s like the shadow of my life that I have only in my heart, that no one else has.
Through meditation, I wipe away the emotions and thoughts accumulated in my mind from the life I have lived until now. And I am able to throw away my subconscious that was inherited from my parents and ancestors. My consciousness returns to its original state like a clean sheet of paper once all the scribbles are erased. All delusions and obsessions are broken and become a pure and clear original consciousness. I’m looking for the original me. True self. It is cleaning up and wiping away the debris and obstacles that prevent me from living as I really am. 🌺🌴🎀
After abandoning the illusionary me who had lived, the original me becomes revealed. There is no past and no future. It always exists at this moment.
Now when I eat, I ONLY eat; when I sleep, I simply sleep. And when I work, I just work.
How amazing it is to be able to live like this!!! My life has completely changed into real life. Since this body is a container containing the mind, my thoughts change when my mind is clean, and when my thoughts change, my habits change, and my life changes when my patterns change. The quality of life increases and daily life transforms significantly. The effects of living in the moment that I have experienced are as follows.
*Now that I live in the moment, I do what I do diligently and with total commitment because I don’t have delusional thoughts.
*My life is productive because I plan what I have to do and do it without distracting thoughts.
*I am like ten times as efficient as I do my job unreservedly.
*I have no regrets because I DID do my best in what I did. I don’t live in the past. As the stress of regret and anxiety disappears, headaches, fatigue, lethargy, and depression disappear, and I become healthier.
*I can live according to the flow of nature like water and wind.
Being in the moment is living without me in the past and without me in the future. You don’t live in the past and don’t worry about anything in the future. You can do what you do wholeheartedly at all times. Now, let us stop what we were doing for a while. Close your eyes, and take a deep breath. And think about it. Where do I live now? Past or future?
I want to share this with you, hoping you’d like it as much as I did. Thank you. 🍀🌻🌸
by Sophie Hwang / Former Project manager of developing S/W system
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