The present moment

The present moment

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment.
A man's whole life is a succesion of moment after moment.
If one fully understands the present moment,
there will be nothing else to do,
and nothing else to pursue.
Live being true to the single purpose of the present moment.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by,
then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else.
No one seems to have noticed this fact.

But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience.
And once one has come to this understanding
he will be a different person from that point on,
though he may not always bare it in mind.
When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well,
his affairs will thin out."


Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai
Translated by William Scott Wilson


Have you noticed?
And how often do you bare it in mind?

Wishing you a beautiful day,
Laurens