what is within the now?

Answer 1

Great question! Very metaphysical in nature! So how would I answer it?

The now is a combination of your personal perception and how you process external and internal stimulus. It is a highly creative sphere that can not only influence your personal action, but it can also impact your environment and personal reality. And what do I mean by that?

Once information, stimulus, has been processed, it is your choice how you react and act upon it. This is the creative nature of the now. No two people will react or act on the exact same stimulating influences in the same way. Ultimately, through your personal choice, through your ability to create that choice and act upon it, you are creating your reality.

This is very powerful - yet most do not understand on any significant level just how powerful it is. Your choices, your creativity, you action, create your world in the "now." Ultimately, reality is within the now but what that reality might be is ever changing depending on your creative choices.

Would you like an example of just how powerful thought is?

I read about an experiment that was done recently (unfortunately I can't remember the source right now) where they took two identical plants, grown in the same type of soil then placed them in two different windows facing the same direction and getting the same sun exposure. The only difference was, one plant was in one room while the other was in a completely different room.

Each day at the exact same time, the two plants would be watered with the same filtered water and in the same amount. They also received plant food once a week at the same time and same amount from the same plant food source. So, what was the experiment?

As the plants were attended to each day and at the same time of day, the experimenters would speak to one plant telling it how hideous it was. How totally useless. How worthless it was. At the same time and in the other room, the next plant was told how beautiful it was. How lovely. How blessed they all were for being given the opportunity to be in the plant's presence.

The only difference in care was the thought expressed towards the plant through speech. And two weeks later, both plants looked very different. The one that was harassed and told how worthless it was, withered and looked near death while the other plant, the one told how wonderful it was, flourished.

You create your own reality within the now. What you think is a very powerful action both for you and the world around you. A slight shift in your internal paradigm can literally change the world. That is your NOW.

Answer 2

All is within the now, and now is all there is... one cannot change with certainty what may be, nor what was, so resting in now is the wisest course.

Answer 3

Everything.

In our worldly terms, the first day of the earth, and the last (and everything in between), are occuring now;

Everything created (Cause), and everything projected (causeless). That is, what is real and what is false;

Love.

Answer 4

The moment perceived. It is illusory; by the time you perceive, it has already past you by.