Why is this.... (girls, friend, Japanese, looking)

[cricket_factor]

Originally Posted by Chowhound

Time based, interesting choice of words cause I've been doing alot of reading on the subject.

We spend our entire lives in "time" we don't spend much time on the current moments of our lives.

We define ourselves by our pasts and we look forward to the future for salvation, meanwhile we're not "here" at this exact moment.

Think about it for a few days and you'll see what I mean.

Yes, I heard this on some Eckhart Tolle CDs, also! The CDs are almost better than the books, I think...

That's why dogs are lucky. They just live in the present, or so Cesar says.

[ChessieMom]

Originally Posted by Chowhound

We define ourselves by our pasts and we look forward to the future for salvation

God THAT'S true...especially when you're trying to lose weight.

[SifuPhil]

Originally Posted by cricket_factor

I think Phil (I think it was Phil) posted something on here a few days or weeks ago where he wrote that all our problems are time-based...they're either in the past or in the future...correct me if I'm wrong, Phil.

Anyway, whoever wrote that, it really struck me as profound.

Well, yes - if it was profound, I wrote it.

It's just part of my life-philosophy - seen too many people destroyed by living in the past or future, and in the process messing up their present.

There are thousands of protests against that sort of idea - I think I've personally been presented with 998 of them - but I still believe it can be boiled down to that one construct.

[sierraAZ]

Originally Posted by Chowhound

What is it about how sometimes, not very often, how you just don't like someone. For no real reason. I'm a pretty mellow guy, easy to get along with.

Is it some kind of psychic type of thing, something subliminal, subconscious. I saw this guy today at the grocery store and he just didn't seem right to me. He looked untrustworthy, maybe even dangerous.

Not fair, cause maybe he is just some average Joe and I'm assigning nefarious traits to the poor guy.

That's the norm with me. I usually like or dislike people at first sight and rarely change my mind.

[ChessieMom]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

Well, yes - if it was profound, I wrote it.

LOL

[Chowhound]

Originally Posted by cricket_factor

Yes, I heard this on some Eckhart Tolle CDs, also! The CDs are almost better than the books, I think...

That's why dogs are lucky. They just live in the present, or so Cesar says.

Tolle isn't saying anything new, many people have said this many times, he just puts things in a way that makes it easier for people to digest.

I'm a big fan of his btw. He has a new website, check it out some time.

EckhartTolleTV.com - Now: The space in which life happens

[nuala]

Originally Posted by cricket_factor

That's why dogs are lucky. They just live in the present.

And kids, too.

As kids, we used to know how to be in the present. It's re-learnable though

[cricket_factor]

Originally Posted by Chowhound

Tolle isn't saying anything new, many people have said this many times, he just puts things in a way that makes it easier for people to digest.

I'm a big fan of his btw. He has a new website, check it out some time.

EckhartTolleTV.com - Now: The space in which life happens

I will.

My father and my brother saw Tolle speak live some place out here about two years ago. I wish I could have been there. I think it was at UCLA or USC or somewhere near there.

[Thursday007]

Originally Posted by Chowhound

Time based, interesting choice of words cause I've been doing alot of reading on the subject.

We spend our entire lives in "time" we don't spend much time on the current moments of our lives.

We define ourselves by our pasts and we look forward to the future for salvation, meanwhile we're not "here" at this exact moment.

Think about it for a few days and you'll see what I mean.

That is the whole premise of buddhism.

[nuala]

Originally Posted by Thursday007

That is the whole premise of buddhism.

Yep.