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Just A Thought...
Shoshin
No one in particularNowhere Special Veteran
"Now" is like a moving train, it never stops to pick up the passengers waiting on the platform station of illusion's edge ...It takes patience and practice to board it...And once on board there is nothing to hold on to...The moment one tries to cling, one will promptly be thrust back into the illusion to patiently wait for (the next) "Now" to appear...
Do you have a ticket to ride?
Just a thought... 
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I tend to misplace mine from time to time.
I would say establish your wishes and priorities and then wait for the trains that relate to your most important wishes.
Why wait @Jeffrey ? One can't take baggage on board....
I have an open-ended return.....
I've got a one-way ticket to the gates of oblivion!
Just a thought...
Wisdom begins in wondering, but not in over-wondering, @Shoshin...
Do we need to pin the concept of "now" to actually enjoy it to the utmost?
I find that the value of seeing the essence of "Now" is for how easily it forgives us for our other moments of idiocy. Each moment a new being, a new world, a new opportunity to be mindful.
Yes, impermanence can become a very positive thing.
Opps, there it goes!
I'm guessing standing on the track is a bad idea?
How often have you walked down the street passing people with that far away/vacate look in their eyes...Lost in the illusion... All the lights are on but nobody home...Miles away from the truth...Or perhaps you haven't had time to notice...
"Durangamam ekacaram-asariram guhasayam
Ye cittam sannamessanti - mokkhanti mara bandhana"
" Faring far, wandering alone, bodiless, lying in a cave, is the mind. Those who subdue it are freed from the bond of Mara"
When "I" first looked into "being in the moment" my thoughts were mistakenly thinking along the lines of the moment being somewhat 'static' (fixed) something that one entered into and not so much "went with the flow of" ... The moving train represents the "Now" that one flows with....Observing the flux of which the observer is part of...
I think because one needs to use words as a means of conventional communication when describing the "absolute" (ultimate) it can be effing hard to eff the ineffable (well for me anyway- I was never really any good at English)....
If you want to spend more time in the present place your mobile phone in a bucket of water and leave it there!
@SpinyNorman I'm just on the phone, I'll be with you in a moment
@ SpinyNorman
And before cell phones, did folks have problems with finding ways not to be present???
No, everything was perfect in the 1950s, children knew to be seen and not heard so it was much more peaceful, and people had good manners and would play cricket on a Sunday afternoon and go to church regularly and such like....
..."Another Pleasant Valley Sunday...."
Ahh...awesome blast from the past!