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There are two paths to rediscover the infinite NoW...

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FrenchyBearpaw said:
"There are two paths you can go on, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on."
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"Your head is humming and it won't go, in case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind."

 
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ThunderTongue said:
There are two paths to rediscover the infinite NoW.

One is to look at something without labeling it...

The other is to label it til it no longer makes sense.



That is all, thank you
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These are not two, but one in sequence. Sooner or later, you have to put a label on an object or a subject, for the sake of organizing your thought.
 
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I don't know what the "infinite" means when applied to the now. But actually, this OP is pretty insightful. Two ways of relating to things:

See them through the filter of language (labels), or see them in their nakedness and particularity. The (Eastern) practice of mindfulness is about this second one, and this path is a good one for maintaining sanity and, I don't know, really *seeing* things as they are as opposed to what we imagine them to be because we're reducing things to concepts.
 
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ThunderTongue said:
There are two paths to rediscover the infinite NoW.

One is to look at something without labeling it...

The other is to label it til it no longer makes sense.
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A third path might be a lobotomy.

I prefer having a balanced experience of past, present, and future.

And concepts are awesome!


eudaimonia,

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