Do you Believe in Staying in the Now?

[leftyladyfrommo]

I just read some more on this. Writer didn't seem to realize this practice is thousands of years old.

But one interesting thing he talked about was the gap between the conscious mind and the unconscous mind. Turn the mind off and slip into this gap and WaLa - instant peace.

He said he stayed there for about two years and didn't do much of anything else. Sat on a bench and was peaceful.

Odd about that.

I'm a mystic and meditate a lot. But I have serious misgivings about that practice. That gap could be just another oddity of the mind.

It's interesting that animals stay in the "now" all of the time. And we don't stay there at all.

I don't know if this means anything at all. Just another wierd question about my practice.