Corey Lupo<\/p>
I will tell you what is going on around me right now. I am sitting at home, it’s late at night. It’s a bit cold, but the heater will kick on soon enough. And I can always grab a blanket. There is a light next to me, and a wood wall behind the computer. I feel good.<\/p>\n
Now that we have a little bit of raw data to examine. Let’s consider why it’s important to be here now.<\/p>\n
Our memory is fallible, but what you are aware of and can sense around you right now is freely available. It’s a direct experience. No need to remember anything, no need to rely on memory. Not until we really want to or feel like it at least.<\/p>\n
If you try and hold on to a single thought… lets try and do a little peter pan exercise, think of a single happy thought. and try to hold on to it.<\/p>\n
Of course you’ll probably want to close your eyes, since it’s easier that way. But even with eyes closed, it’s quickly obvious just how difficult and slippery memory is. How rapidly a thought can fade into memory, and how hard we have to focus in order for it not to.<\/p>\n
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But when you open your eyes, and you just look around. When you are just aware of what is here now, you can feel there is no strain. And there is no fallibility like with memory… lol, well if you are the philosopher type you might draw swords with me there on the “no fallibility” statement. But let me have it, and I will concede that the sense are…pretty much infallible \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
And if you are skilled, you should also be able to feel peace. Memory is where most of our pain comes from. Books have been written about pain, so I won’t go much into it. But just try to analyze pain while you are practicing these things we talked about. Try to see, in real time and direct experience, how your ability to be here now is directly related to the pain felt from memory. The more skilled you are at being here now, the less pain you feel from memory.<\/p>\n
-Corey Lupo<\/h6>\n