Whats the secret to living in the moment?

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Whats the secret to living in the moment?

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Hi Skycat, brbr This is good. This really is one of my most important mantras.brbr A very smart man, for whom I hold in the highest esteem, shared a comment with me, after some time, it clicked. I asked him the very question you posed on this website.brbrI asked, quotHow can it be possible to live in the moment? brbrHe replied, quotPicture this somewhat vulgar analogy, if you will. This may illustrate the ease of how to acheive this way of living, and also it may also show you just how equally easy it is to get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow, those two eternities, for which are forever out of our control.brbrHe stood up with legs apart like at a driving range.brThen as he looked at his legs, he then said to me,br quotWhen you have one leg quotstanding in yesterday,bramp when you have the other quotstanding in tomorrow, bryou see how you are pissing on today !!!br brNow, I know this is not an elegant analogy of the brcrystal clear point, he was trying to get across, however, I saw EXACTLY what he meant. I knewbrEXACTLY how to put that dirty, tasteless analogybrinto the context of how I was living my life.brbrSo, in a nutshell, if my mind is thinking about yesterday, and my mind is also thinking about what may happen tomorrow, how much of our THOUGHTS, ATTENTION AND FOCUS IS HONESTLY,TRUTHFULLY, LIVING IN TODAY ?brNot much, is there buddy. Thats why the people of Alcoholics Anonymous have many credos and mantras. One of the deepest and most loved mantra of A.A. is quotLive, one day at a timequottoday.brbrKind regards from Toronto, Canada.

Whats the secret to living in the moment?

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Whats the secret to living in the moment?

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Hi Skycat, brbr This is good. This really is one of my most important mantras.brbr A very smart man, for whom I hold in the highest esteem, shared a comment with me, after some time, it clicked. I asked him the very question you posed on this website.brbrI asked, quotHow can it be possible to live in the moment? brbrHe replied, quotPicture this somewhat vulgar analogy, if you will. This may illustrate the ease of how to acheive this way of living, and also it may also show you just how equally easy it is to get caught up in yesterday and tomorrow, those two eternities, for which are forever out of our control.brbrHe stood up with legs apart like at a driving range.brThen as he looked at his legs, he then said to me,br quotWhen you have one leg quotstanding in yesterday,bramp when you have the other quotstanding in tomorrow, bryou see how you are pissing on today !!!br brNow, I know this is not an elegant analogy of the brcrystal clear point, he was trying to get across, however, I saw EXACTLY what he meant. I knewbrEXACTLY how to put that dirty, tasteless analogybrinto the context of how I was living my life.brbrSo, in a nutshell, if my mind is thinking about yesterday, and my mind is also thinking about what may happen tomorrow, how much of our THOUGHTS, ATTENTION AND FOCUS IS HONESTLY,TRUTHFULLY, LIVING IN TODAY ?brNot much, is there buddy. Thats why the people of Alcoholics Anonymous have many credos and mantras. One of the deepest and most loved mantra of A.A. is quotLive, one day at a timequottoday.brbrKind regards from Toronto, Canada.

Can we prevent death, disease, and old age?

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Can we prevent death, disease, and old age?
WE the human beings have progressed a lot,we have come a long way from the stone age to the present.And still we are to go a long way. I donot think that we had any chance of conquering the above three that is death, disease and old age.

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Hey! I read all answers and see that all are staying at the most primitive and dense level and that is the materialistic field. Personality for me belongs also to this. As this is posted in philosophy, there should be something more than just this.brWhere are all those spiritual and religious people? As far as I remember from school in classes about religion, there was a man Jesus who told people that there is not such a thing like death and he also demonstrated this by showing up alive after he was killed. Well this might be just a nice story to satisfy his followers, as it also belongs to the primitive aspects. But what about the philosophical part of eternal life? In this of course the body is seen only as a changeable form that will be renewed, not really important, because there is a permanent entity and for this there is no death. Sounds good, maybe too good? Or why it is not mentioned when something about it is ask? brWell, this just shows that we live in the first place with a materialistic worldview and philosophy serves to confirm our position. Right? Religion is just the way to manipulate people and to keep them calm. Wasnt it Marx who mentioned this? brAnyway, I was just surprised and was wondering where are all those religious people who usually show up in all occasions.brInkyPinkie

Can we prevent death, disease, and old age?

Question

Can we prevent death, disease, and old age?
WE the human beings have progressed a lot,we have come a long way from the stone age to the present.And still we are to go a long way. I donot think that we had any chance of conquering the above three that is death, disease and old age.

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Hey! I read all answers and see that all are staying at the most primitive and dense level and that is the materialistic field. Personality for me belongs also to this. As this is posted in philosophy, there should be something more than just this.brWhere are all those spiritual and religious people? As far as I remember from school in classes about religion, there was a man Jesus who told people that there is not such a thing like death and he also demonstrated this by showing up alive after he was killed. Well this might be just a nice story to satisfy his followers, as it also belongs to the primitive aspects. But what about the philosophical part of eternal life? In this of course the body is seen only as a changeable form that will be renewed, not really important, because there is a permanent entity and for this there is no death. Sounds good, maybe too good? Or why it is not mentioned when something about it is ask? brWell, this just shows that we live in the first place with a materialistic worldview and philosophy serves to confirm our position. Right? Religion is just the way to manipulate people and to keep them calm. Wasnt it Marx who mentioned this? brAnyway, I was just surprised and was wondering where are all those religious people who usually show up in all occasions.brInkyPinkie