The Now
By Bruce Lee
The Now is truth. – This evening I see something totally new, and that newness is experienced by the mind; but tomorrow that experience becomes mechanical, because I want to repeat the sensation, the pleasure of it – the description is never real. What is real is seeing the truth instantaneously, because truth has no future.
The Now is all-inclusive. – NOTHING EXISTS EXCEPT THE HERE AND NOW.
The now covers all that exists. – The past is no more, the future is not yet. NOW includes the balance of being here, experiencing, involvement, phenomenon, awareness.
Flow in the living moment. – We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing OPEN yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENNESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
The Now is total awareness. – The “space” created between “what is” and “what should be.” Total awareness of the now and not the disciplined stillness.
You cannot force the Now. – But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
Being in the Now. – Listen. Can you hear the wind? And can you hear the birds singing? You have to HEAR IT. Empty your mind. You know how water fills a cup? It BECOMES that cup. You have to think about nothing. You have to BECOME nothing.
The moment is freedom. – I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
The Now is creative. – If you are in the NOW, you are creative.
The Now is inventive. – If you are in the NOW, you are inventive.
There is no anxiety in the Now. – When you are in the NOW, you can’t be anxious, because the excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.
The Now and its synonyms. – One and the same thing:
·Living in the NOW
·Maturity
·Authenticity
·Responsibility for one’s action/life
·Response – Ability
·Having the Creativeness of the NOW available
To live now you must die to yesterday. – To understand and live now, there must be dying to everything of yesterday. Die continually to every newly gained experience–be in a state of choiceless awareness of WHAT IS.
The Now is indivisible. – Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart, it is no longer complete. All the pieces of a car that has been taken apart may be there, but it is no longer a car in its original nature, which is its function of life.
By Bruce Lee
The Now is truth. – This evening I see something totally new, and that newness is experienced by the mind; but tomorrow that experience becomes mechanical, because I want to repeat the sensation, the pleasure of it – the description is never real. What is real is seeing the truth instantaneously, because truth has no future.
The Now is all-inclusive. – NOTHING EXISTS EXCEPT THE HERE AND NOW.
The now covers all that exists. – The past is no more, the future is not yet. NOW includes the balance of being here, experiencing, involvement, phenomenon, awareness.
Flow in the living moment. – We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing OPEN yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENNESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
The Now is total awareness. – The “space” created between “what is” and “what should be.” Total awareness of the now and not the disciplined stillness.
You cannot force the Now. – But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
Being in the Now. – Listen. Can you hear the wind? And can you hear the birds singing? You have to HEAR IT. Empty your mind. You know how water fills a cup? It BECOMES that cup. You have to think about nothing. You have to BECOME nothing.
The moment is freedom. – I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
The Now is creative. – If you are in the NOW, you are creative.
The Now is inventive. – If you are in the NOW, you are inventive.
There is no anxiety in the Now. – When you are in the NOW, you can’t be anxious, because the excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.
The Now and its synonyms. – One and the same thing:
·Living in the NOW
·Maturity
·Authenticity
·Responsibility for one’s action/life
·Response – Ability
·Having the Creativeness of the NOW available
To live now you must die to yesterday. – To understand and live now, there must be dying to everything of yesterday. Die continually to every newly gained experience–be in a state of choiceless awareness of WHAT IS.
The Now is indivisible. – Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart, it is no longer complete. All the pieces of a car that has been taken apart may be there, but it is no longer a car in its original nature, which is its function of life.
