tidying up those loose threads and more.....

In keeping with the previous blog, I have to share some thoughts that have arisen. The ideas of this blog just keep rolling around that overactive mind of mine…..

I was focusing on my meditation process when I had a small flash of insight….”It is not a matter of dwelling in the past but rather wholly and consciously in the present” my words suddenly rang really true and I realized the fullness of suchness…being in your moment fully is not a disconnection to what has been or to the possibilities of what is to come, but a complete connection to both…everything!! Of course I should have understood this before, but I think we all tend to separate the idea of ‘in the moment’ from the idea of ‘connection to all’ or interdependence….these two philosophical concepts can only really be grasped when we see them together.

Thich Naht Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist monk) says “The subject of knowledge cannot exist independently from the object of knowledge. To see is to see something. To hear is to hear something.” And so on……

He goes on to suggest we ‘consider a Table’…..its existence is due to the existence of all the things that have gone before it in the ‘non-table’ world…ie forest, trees, sun and water, lumberjacks, carpenters, parents of carpenters, teachers of carpenters, makers of carpenters tools, iron ore which became the nails and screws, food which fed the people who worked on the table, designers, All the events and ideas that allowed the table designers to gain their concept of design and so on ad infinitum…..

The table is the sum of what has been before to make it exist in this ‘moment’ and this ‘moment’ is pregnant with the possibilities of what the table might become and of what the table itself influences into becoming….

That is why history, heredity, and memories are important, because they tie us all together and bring us to this ‘moment’, which in turn ties us to infinitesimal possibility…..

So next time you are in a ‘moment’ be truly there….experience the remarkable fullness of each ‘moment’….

“A person who looks at the table and can see the universe is a person who can see the way….” Thich Nhat Hanh