The now is the everything, yet contains no things. The now is eternal, yet ever-changing. The now is real, yet an illusion as what is now is now no longer. The now is unpredictable. The now is overwhelming. We are the now, yet don't know the now. All we know is our reactions to the now. When we observe the now from before and after the now we can we know the now....
"We clearly picked the wrong day to have a bad day." -- Mike McCarthy, head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, after his football team lost their playoff game in a major upset. We're blamed or credited for the consequences of our actions, though the consequences are often a function of luck....
Before time begins, all is the NON. Upon birth, the I of the self and the NON become the NOW. With the I of the soul, the NOW is a WOW. The I of the self is red, symbolizing emotions. We experience the now through a myriad of selfish emotions. The I of the soul is yellow; light, the essence of everything. The experience of the "non" with the I of self and the I of the soul is a "wow."...
With more than a glance at the rearview mirror, we are likely to have an accident....
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." -- Linji Yixuan In the now, there is only one thing: the Everything. The Everything is manifested as an infinite number of seemingly independent things. Yet, as all things are interdependent, essentially all things are one thing. Thinking of things (like the Buddha) as independent is an illusion. Illusionary things create duality, the thing and all that is not the thing. On the road to enlightenment, we need to vanquish all illusions to realize the oneness of the Everything....
