How can a person move all the daily issues of life, mundane to major, out of the way and become sensitive to those transendent moments?
2006-10-26 03:56:32 · 12 answers · asked by Lynn 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What ever a person is busy with in his waking hours, what is it to prevent him from maintaining an awareness that life is happening to him just where he is ? And also that he is breathing ?
Just to start with it would be enough... the quality of this awareness would improve with perseverance, and over a period of time, he would experience what it is to live in the moment ! (He or she... just to mean any person...) . And a sustained effort will definitely prove that this awareness has an insignificant by product... an enhanced level of skill in handling daily issues of life !
2006-10-26 05:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You'll never forget the rest of those things. Instead... we have have to be confident enough to CHOOSE that at that moment we will not give the rest of the issues in our life any of our energies - and we CHOOSE not to allow ourselves to feel guilty about it later.
Many people do this by sleeping. I believe that can be positive or negative. If sleeping is an escape from responsibilities and a way to hope things are better when we wake - that can be dangerous. BUT, if sleeping is done with real expectations of recharging so we can approach life's issues - great!
Most people do not allow themselves to make choices and live with them. If you need an example... go ask someone out to lunch whom you know is busy. They will tell you all the reasons why they can't go - they don't have the confidence to say "no, it will not work for me today..." We don't have to give excuses to anyone else for the way we use our time. But we do need to ow up to the consequences for how we use it.
Rest/transcendence time is not a waste - it's an investment.
2006-10-26 11:07:17 · answer #2 · answered by MLK II 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It comes from within you. Some people can't live in the moment because they can not ignore the mundane and major or maybe they just don't want to. You have to want to. For me, I decided to live for those moments when I realized how much I missed. I missed the moments of happiness and sadness with my loved ones because I was to busy with everyday things. I lost sight of how lucky I was compared to others because of the daily turmoil in my life. From then on, I decided to live in the moment. You must be able to push away all the daily stuff for the ones or things you love. Eventually some people might regret not doing that.
2006-10-26 11:08:17 · answer #3 · answered by The One Truth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me, this means not saving something for later, whether it's food or talking to someone or thinking I'll have enough time for all of that later. Do it right now, and don't wait until the opportunity comes up again. Most of the time, the second chance isn't better.
Sorry, but I didn't catch on to what you meant with becoming sensitive to transcendent moments...
2006-10-26 11:00:37 · answer #4 · answered by HP 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me, living in the moment does not mean moving the daily issues of life out of the way, but rather dealing with those issues. If you move everything out of the way, you're not "living in the moment," you're "stopping to smell the roses."
2006-10-26 11:03:19 · answer #5 · answered by smiling_nonstop 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means "act act in the living present" because past is gone and future is not known. Solve the daily issues, on major ones keep taking decisions and implementing them, when you have done this find a few minutes Gap and become transcendent
2006-10-26 12:13:30 · answer #6 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To realize that whatever state that you are in to be content. To appreciate the small joys and beauty of life. To see this moment as the moment that is now and to say this is okay. It is all a state of mind. You control how you feel, think, see, it is all your choice. Is that glass half empty or half full?
2006-10-26 11:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by lizzy tee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they can't move the issues of life away....
so..........
I want but can't have.
I throw a fit.
I get it.
I grow up and stop throwing fits.
I get FAR more by being 'nice'.
I learn. This moment of time exists. No other moment exists.
No thought exists. No emotion exists. I live in this moment alone.
It passes.
I recall the moment later, and what I learned from it.
2006-10-26 11:07:53 · answer #8 · answered by flowerpet56 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means to concentrate on 'what is' and not the "what if's" and "if onlys".
However this is not to negate the importance of adequate preparation and planning. Like everything else; some things in life must be prepared for.
2006-10-26 11:03:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me it means enjoying what I am doing now, rather than wishing it away or waiting for something better to come along. For instance, right now I am enjoying the nice smell of our home from baking, my husband walking around without his shirt on.
2006-10-26 13:18:00 · answer #10 · answered by Valerie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋