All Moments Are This Moment
Todos los momentos son este momento
A student reflects on a humorous internet meme about "being in the moment" being ruined by other moments, which leads the teacher to explore how multiplicity collapses into presence, and why that collapse can feel like loss.
All Moments Are This Moment
A student reflects on a humorous internet meme about "being in the moment" being ruined by other moments, which leads the teacher to explore how multiplicity collapses into presence, and why that collapse can feel like loss.
I saw a funny meme on the internet today. It said something like: a woman's experience of being in the moment is ruined by many other moments showing up. It made me laugh, but when you were talking just now, it made me think that actually all those moments are the same moment, especially when you were describing the sensations feeling like the same thing.
Yes. There is an aspect where all of this multiplicity and complexity collapses. In that collapse, there is an ending of all these different moments and places and times.
When presence feels like loss
That can seem like a contraction. It can seem like something is lost, but that perception is more related to a transition, because what is actually collapsing is the mind itself. All of those moments, times, and places only exist in thought.
So even in that meme, the idea is that being in the present can be spoiled by all of these other moments. But all of those other moments, appearing within this present moment, can only appear as thought.
It is as if the mind, coming into the present moment, might experience something like going through the eye of a needle.