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The NOW From Three Teachers

June 20, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
The NOW From Three Teachers The ‘now’, or the eternal present instant, is the only space we ever are in reality. Paradoxically, the context in which we use the word ‘we’ refers to our ego mind, which has become crippled by its dependence on thought (a product of the past), which is based entirely on the past, or on the projected past… which is the future. The ego mind (as opposed to our universal mind) is incapable of being in the present ‘now’. This one observation, obviously true, presents us with a frustratingly simple challenge…why we are we simply unwilling or incapable to experience the present now? We treat the now as an unimportant gap between the past and the future to be avoided… but the past is gone…and the future never arrives. But the reality is we are evermore in the ‘now’, which we refuse to recognize. What is insanity, if not this? I’d like to look at the concept of time from the perspective of three of the greatest world teachers of our time… A Course in Miracles, Jiddhu Krishamurti, and Eckhardt Tolle. I believe all are saying the same thing on this topic with different words, the Course from a vastly broader array of teachings, and Krishnamurti and Tolle from their respective teachings which are not only very similar, but emphasize the ‘now’ as one of, or in Tolle’s case, their primary concept. ///////////  A Course in Miracles: (Chapter 13 – The Function of Time)  ///////////// (Note: […]
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Stream of Life vs Stream of Thought

April 3, 2021 Ron Gordon 0
This graphic is an imperfect representation of the words of Krishnamurti, Tolle, and Johan Lem. The central idea is the same one repeated by K for his entire life, that the ‘now’ escapes us as our stream of thought runs away from the now into the past or future. By not seeing completely what is before us, we accumulate incomplete memories which condition us even more. K’s message was one of direct observation… without will or motive… and without thought which has become a ‘distraction’. Of course, until one is capable of this, it is only conjecture and speculation. Some people like to draw diagrams in order to understand it. There are three pages in this PDF.  Click here to open/download this PDF  
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Krishnamurti – The Observer is the Observed

October 25, 2020 Ron Gordon 0
‘The Observer is the Observed’. I struggled for years to understand what Krishnamurti meant by this cryptic statement that he repeated often. This is what I think he meant, although I may be missing the essence of it. We are the world, and the world is us, we are not different from what we are ‘seeing’, if we are in fact seeing it at all. I believe his message was to see ‘what is’, not ‘what should be’. When we see ugliness in ourselves our minds immediately escape into ‘what should be…’, what I will do it improve myself… but this (almost instantaneous are largely unconscious) escape prevents us from seeing clearly in the present moment, rather we are escaping into the past or future. It was part of Krishnamurti’s message that only by seeing what is, what actually is, can we can begin to make progress in understanding ourselves, which is the first step in real change. This video, and other incredibly well produced videos on Krishnamurti, are available through the Krishnamurti Foundation of America ©: https://theimmeasurable.org/