Carpe Diem, of the great Roman poet Quinto Horacio Flaco, means something like “Seize the moment” in the sense of not wasting it. The full sentence in the original language is? Carpe diem, quam minimum poster credula?And your most reliable translation would be something like “Take advantage of the day, don’t believe in the next day”. However, we are struggling to live here and now.
At first glance, letting the day go by and waiting for tomorrow is easier than “seizing the moment. “But what is it really? Some people are unable to live the present moment, to concentrate on the present moment, they are addicted to the past, annoyed and moody by their thoughts.
- Worst of all.
- We don’t know if.
- With “civilization.
- ” this capability has been stolen from us.
- If nature is exactly stop thinking about thinking.
- Why do we have a hard time living here and now?.
Eckhart Tolle, at a masterful conference in Barcelona, highlighted this shame of the human being: being trapped in mental, material and emotional forms. Stop looking at them as a passing thing to start identifying with them. Stop being present?
This has nothing to do with conformism or paralysis, it’s quite the opposite. No one questions that in this life it is necessary to “do things”.
The heart of the problem is to do things and be present with what you feel, without constantly judging or feeling judged, is the most mature form of commitment and character.
“Action always happens in the present because it is the expression of the body, which exists only in the here and now. The spiritual spirit is like a ghost that always lives in the past or in the future. The only power he has over ti. es draw your attention to the present. -Socrates-
Sometimes, giving up attachment to mental forms is very similar to pleasurable contact with a baby, nature or an animal, it’s fascinating to see a person spend his time with someone who doesn’t judge him, but he doesn’t brag either. .
Some people disarm, some are put together. There are people who relax and connect with the present when they do not feel judged.
Others feel they have to keep showing something all the time. In the latter case, in addition to a problem of contact with the present, there is an excess of narcissism and ego.
The first type of people can lack good company or just avoid others, the hardest thing is to make yours bearable without a continuous judgment, without feeling guilt for everything they have done or will do, look at life as a spectator of your mind and a protagonist of situations.
We connect with the present when there is a radical acceptance of mental states without moral or intellectual submission to them, when we contemplate the forms of the world without feeling that define us, that is the difference between excessive intellectualization and true wisdom.
In the West, detachment is hard to understand. We refuse to let go and tie ourselves up.
When we have a family, friends and partner, we think they will last forever, we are in a state of suffering, no matter what. And this suffering was born of our inability to let go, to feel free and connected to the present dimension.
When we believe that something depends on us constantly or that we depend on others, connect with it here and now it is much more difficult.
“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get what you don’t want, you suffer too. Even if you get what you want, you’ll always suffer because you can’t keep what you have forever. “?-Socrates-
In the face of death, it can take months or years to accept a loved one’s departure, even if it is the normal process of life. Everything’s going to die. It is not death that is sad and painful, but the refusal to accept it as a normal process of life.
For Westerners living in the age of consumerism and productivity at all costs, this quest for the present moment is practically a luxury. Who has time to relax to enjoy the morning breeze or the smell of wet grass?
We all feel like we’re running all the time. For most of us, this race becomes a heavy routine.
Our day-to-day life runs out and we dream of the weekend, the next vacation or even the retreat. We’re going to work thinking about dinner. Sunday is full of worries that belong to Monday.
Our gift seems so boring and empty that we end up running away
In a revenue- valued society, the concept “here and now” may surprise. It can even mean laziness and carelessness. But this is not a cheap philosophy.
The present makes sense through the past and the future. This is not a static photo, but part of a movie. We need to know where we come from to take actions that build the future. We can think about environmental problems: we are now acting knowing that our actions will have an impact in the future.
As we fight the tiredness that forces us to stop, we end up wondering what all this means, and that’s what our lives often lack: sense, it’s important to know what motivates our actions and choices.
That doesn’t mean there must be spectacular goals. Giving meaning to life means finding what matters most to us, and then working and acting on that priority. It could be family, love, our children.
Only with a clear goal, which makes sense to us, can we really take our time to savor the path that takes us.
As we stop to enjoy the moment, we build happy memories of our senses. Some shamans call them “warm memories. ” Unlike “cold memories,” built on our intellect, these memories are indelible and become a source of comfort.
If our well is empty, if we haven’t taken our time to enjoy the little moments of happiness in our lives because we were too busy, we’ll feel that our lives are meaningless. The crises of the 1940s are often the result of this observation.
Feeling alive and healthy, here and now, can be a source of joy. Still, you have to stop to enjoy it. Author Sarah Ban Breathnach’s advice is to keep a diary and write five things every night you’re grateful for. realize that we are much richer than we think.
We have been massacred with phrases such as ‘your present depends on your past’, ‘building a good future depends solely on you’, which link the value of the present to futility, invisibility or even inactivity.
A person who doesn’t think he has a good past story and a promising future is lost. In some of the most vulnerable people, these messages crystallize into anxiety, hyperactivity, or depression.
Guilt causes much more discomfort than sin, and the future you feared so much has come and everything remains un disaster-free. Then live the present. Make a real commitment to something, abandon the mental forms.
The only way to heal is to accommodate everything that happens in your life with an attitude in person, alert and interested in the present moment, assuming that nothing is really so terrible when you come into contact with the earth.
In many situations, bad things only happen in our minds, trapped in the world of social forms and not in the depths of being with open senses.