living...

Now

When you project your mind

Into the future

Dreaming about

Circumstances

You hope might occur

Or that you

Dread

You are living within

The confines

Of your own mind.

When you remember the

Past

Stirring up emotions of

Pleasant nostalgia

Or of a desperate trauma

You are living within the

Prison

Of your own mind.

But when you simply

Abide

Still

In the present

You are in the

Free and

Infinite

Expanse

Of the Eternal mind.

The future and the past

Belong to time

And time is a

Construct

Of limited consciousness.

In the fullness of

The infinite awareness

There is no time

There is only this moment

Now.

The only way to live

In Peace

The only way to know

Truth

The only way to be

Truly Free

Is to keep your mind

Here

Now.

Stop dreaming

Stop reminiscing

Let your mind

Expand to

Complete awareness

Of all of life

In the Present;

Then you will

Live

Not in

Your mind

But in

God's.

Here's to living fully in the present, the Now...

-B

(poem courtesy of my cyber-friend Amber, from the book "Bodhisattva" by Nicole Grace

Definitely not endorsing Buddhism, just simply like the poem)