Be here now?

Be here now? What does that mean? It’s said and it seems to make sense. Simply be in the moment and do whatever you are doing fully.

But the question is, what does that really mean?

If you take a look at yourself and what is going on in the present moment, you'll only find elements that are constantly changing. The body is alive, which means that it's never frozen in any way. There is no doubt that the body is in constant motion. I’m not just talking about actual movement that you can see, such as moving your arms, walking, eating, talking, brushing your teeth and so on. But the actual body itself is comprised of elements that are always in motion. If you took a look through a microscope at any part of the body, you would find it in constant motion. If you take a closer look, the same could also be found in all the objects that surround us, such as a stone. Granted, a stone isn't alive as we are, with a personality and a heartbeat, but nonetheless, it’s never in a frozen, inactive state. And looking even further into what’s around us, you'll see that everything derives from nature; wood, different metals, oil (plastic), rubber, cotton, synthetics (which on closer look is all formed from nature by mixing this element with that element). Take, for example, your smart phone. What is it made of? It's made of materials from nature and was put together in a very specific order to make the phone, but at no point is anything from nature not in movement. 

In the larger picture of nature, we look to see the constant motion of the universe: the earth, the sun, the stars, the light, the wind, the seas and oceans and so on. Everything is merely one big collection of elements in motion. 

The other major part of what is going on in the now are thoughts and emotions. The nature of both of these things is change. Take a look for yourself at your thoughts and notice how they come in and then go. Just the fact that they come in means that they are transitory. There has never been a thought that just comes in, remains the same and never leaves nor changes. Examine those thoughts that seem to be persistent and see if they don’t follow suit. The same can be said about emotions. You may feel happy for a time, but later you may feel sad. This means that at some point, your happiness changed and was replaced with sadness. I say replaced because when you feel really sad, the happiness appears to have disappeared and visa versa. You will have to take a look within yourself to see if anything I am saying is true or not. Even if it what I am saying makes sense to you, who knows if it's really the absolute truth. 

And now back to the beginning: Be here now, what that means, and why it's beneficial. To begin with, picture yourself as just a space in which nothing remains that same, everything just comes and goes. It may seem like there is something sort of permanent about you, but there is no evidence of that, only a thought that says that is so. Begin to take notice of what I am talking about here and see this for yourself. You can take notice of the body changing: Birth, aging, sickness, health, fat, thin, wounds, scars, hungry, thirsty, talking, blinking, swallowing, typing, looking, feeling and so on. And you can take notice of the mind changing: Thoughts, worries, happy, sad, considering, wanting, satiated, good feelings, bad feelings, positive, negative or neutral thoughts and on and on. For example, last week you were feeling very bad about a colleague of yours, but this week something has changed. They quit and you know no longer work in close quarters with them. Those negative feelings will slowly dissipate because the cause is gone. And, without a cause, a thought or emotion can’t continue, life moves on and new thoughts arise. And then they're the new focus and seemingly the most important.

Why is being here beneficial? It's because you can fully experience everything that happens without getting lost in any of it. So, at no point is there any weight on your shoulders since the heaviness of life just isn't there. This isn't to say that you don't care about anything, but rather that you know the truth that everything that comes also goes. And in addition, you will know that trying to hold onto something, anything, just stops the natural flow of things, and that will inevitably cause some level of discomfort or pain.

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Brian Eric Cohen

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