103,025
edits
Changes
From Nordan Symposia
Jump to navigationJump to search2012-09-12-About the Present Moment (view source)
Revision as of 23:31, 21 February 2017
, 23:31, 21 February 2017Created page with "Image:lighterstill.jpg right|frame ==Heading== ===Topic: ''About the Present Moment''=== ===Group: 11:11 Progress Group=== ==Facili..."
[[Image:lighterstill.jpg]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''About the Present Moment''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===TR: [[Oscar]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Thought Adjuster: “One of the keys to [[happiness]] is to always live in the present [[moment]]. What does this mean? Without [[doubt]], human beings live in the present moment because their physical [[existence]] is tied to a time frame. However, it is in the [[human mind|mind]] of man where time can be [[transcended]] and it is in the mind where a mortal must exercise [[control]].
“Living in the present moment is to [[focus]] on the task at hand. It is to be somewhere without fantasizing about being someplace else. It is to face life with an attentive and [[awakened]] mind in order to overcome the challenges of human [[existence]]. Living in the present moment is a [[progressive]] awakening in which life becomes increasingly more real to those who decide to [[focus]] on the here and now.
“Many among you waste a lot of time fantasizing about what may happen and [[lamenting]] the [[facts]] and mistakes of the [[past]]. In the end, these concerns are useless, because there is nothing you can do to [[change]] something that has already happened nor are you capable of [[predicting]] what could happen. It is by acting in the present moment that you can exert some [[influence]] over your future. It is in this moment that you can [[decide]] to learn from the mistakes of the past or to remedy the situations that are the [[consequences]] of those mistakes.
“However, living in the present doesn’t imply a [[myopic]] vision of [[reality]], in which immature mortals forget the intelligent [[planning]] that is necessary to ensure their well-being. The present time is not just a point in an [[infinite]] line going from the past to the future. When I suggest that you should live in the present, I am indicating that you should acquire an [[eternal]] point of view of reality. Only in this way will you be able to make the [[supreme decision]] of finding God without being concerned about when this [[goal]] will be reached, because to [[the Father]] this is already a reality in eternity.
“Once you have definitively made a fundamental decision in your life — one of eternal [[value]] — this [[becomes]] a reality in eternity and also in the [[experience]] of those who have learned to [[trust]] their Father and who have accepted by [[faith]] that they are His beloved children, to whom nothing is denied once they have decided to know and [[Doing the will of God|live the divine will]].”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Thought Adjuster]]
[[Category: Oscar]]
[[Category: Moment]]
[[Category: 2012]]
[[File:Teaching_buddha_small.jpg|right|frame]]
==Heading==
===Topic: ''About the Present Moment''===
===Group: [[11:11 Progress Group]]===
==Facilitators==
===Teacher: [[Thought Adjuster]]===
===TR: [[Oscar]]===
==Session==
===Lesson===
Thought Adjuster: “One of the keys to [[happiness]] is to always live in the present [[moment]]. What does this mean? Without [[doubt]], human beings live in the present moment because their physical [[existence]] is tied to a time frame. However, it is in the [[human mind|mind]] of man where time can be [[transcended]] and it is in the mind where a mortal must exercise [[control]].
“Living in the present moment is to [[focus]] on the task at hand. It is to be somewhere without fantasizing about being someplace else. It is to face life with an attentive and [[awakened]] mind in order to overcome the challenges of human [[existence]]. Living in the present moment is a [[progressive]] awakening in which life becomes increasingly more real to those who decide to [[focus]] on the here and now.
“Many among you waste a lot of time fantasizing about what may happen and [[lamenting]] the [[facts]] and mistakes of the [[past]]. In the end, these concerns are useless, because there is nothing you can do to [[change]] something that has already happened nor are you capable of [[predicting]] what could happen. It is by acting in the present moment that you can exert some [[influence]] over your future. It is in this moment that you can [[decide]] to learn from the mistakes of the past or to remedy the situations that are the [[consequences]] of those mistakes.
“However, living in the present doesn’t imply a [[myopic]] vision of [[reality]], in which immature mortals forget the intelligent [[planning]] that is necessary to ensure their well-being. The present time is not just a point in an [[infinite]] line going from the past to the future. When I suggest that you should live in the present, I am indicating that you should acquire an [[eternal]] point of view of reality. Only in this way will you be able to make the [[supreme decision]] of finding God without being concerned about when this [[goal]] will be reached, because to [[the Father]] this is already a reality in eternity.
“Once you have definitively made a fundamental decision in your life — one of eternal [[value]] — this [[becomes]] a reality in eternity and also in the [[experience]] of those who have learned to [[trust]] their Father and who have accepted by [[faith]] that they are His beloved children, to whom nothing is denied once they have decided to know and [[Doing the will of God|live the divine will]].”
[[Category: The Teaching Mission: Dialogues]]
[[Category: 11:11 Progress Group]]
[[Category: Thought Adjuster]]
[[Category: Oscar]]
[[Category: Moment]]
[[Category: 2012]]
