Originally Posted by
alan.r
I enjoyed this and feel inspired by it, which I suppose is its intention. However, I sometimes dislike how some teachers talk about practice, as if it is only a concrete thing - like, "Hey, stop thinking and pay attention to washing your hands." This is fine, and it's sort of revelatory when one first really does it, when one first begins to pay attention to how often the "physical" moment is pushed aside for some dreaming/thinking/etc, but I think that there are different ways to do the "wash the hands in the moment" thing. Or, it's less narrow than that - for instance, I'm typing this "right now" and paying great attention to what I'm writing (I feel "in the moment") - but, see, because I'm paying great attention to what I'm thinking and writing, I'm not really noticing other stuff, until I stop typing (there's a dog barking outside, right now, and there's a siren, too).
What I mean is, there's often this insistence in these "live in the moment" parts of articles that suggest that living in the moment is purely about physical, concrete reality, and placing our awareness there. There sometimes seems to be a kind of one-to-one correlation that I find a little troubling: just this = concrete reality. I think that we can be "in the now" when thinking thoughts, when writing our thoughts out (as now), and etc. Jundo has often said that when you're daydreaming be fully aware and into that - that is the now, too.
I wonder if others have felt this way. In any case, just some thoughts, and thanks for sharing.
Gassho