Short story: A Spiritual master lectures on the now of now, being only ever now.

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The spiritual master, Sri Rama Ramason, was talking to his students about this idea of there being a "now" time, in which we should live our lives. If we do this, we make our present moment count. He told them: "Don't look back, as you're not meant to be going in that way." "Don't look forwards, as you will trip yourself up right now, on your future." "Look now, in the now, and let all other looks, into the future, or into the past, go unlooked." Then, a student put his hand up into the air, and he asked the master if he could pose a question to him. "Sure," the master replied, "Go right ahead." The student said, "Much of this philosophy about this mythical now is gobbledygook, to me. In life, we have time passing continually through us, and carrying us along with it too." "In mathematics, we have a mythical point, that does not exist in reality either, as in creation, everything occupies some part of it, that creation, if it is present in creation. It has some coordinate of time, space, weight, and energy, that makes it what it is within creation, and which exist in that combination only for a certain time span within time too." "We all die one day. And so the truth is that if there was just a now, we could not die." "What do say you about that?" The great master winked, as he replied to his student. "The energy is not in the now, but moves across time, transforming itself into things that consist of matter, time, and space, but the now is where your soul exists, and so to live fully, as this soul, now, and to connect to it fully now, you must let go of the holds on your mind now, which are these thoughts of the past, and the future, so, as soon as you see only now, your soul is seeing you, through you then too." "Ah," said the student. "So, I am a soul, living outside of time, space, matter, and my soul is the mythical point, or a part of God, that makes me, me in him." "You got it in one," said the master. "Good, good, we will discuss these things further tomorrow." And, so ended his talk, for today. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com The Spiritual master painted a colourful picture of what was previously only black and white to his student.