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Vimala Thakar on Daily Living [28:16]

What we call the daily living, the now, the here, the this moment…is the only opportunity to meet life, to see it, to meet it. You cannot postpone the perception to tomorrow and the day after. Because the tomorrows and the day afters exist in the human mind. They are ideas. In reality, life just simply is. It is an is-ness. It is a timeless is-ness. The differentiations that we introduce in the timelessness of life of todays and tomorrows are contrivances for psychological purposes. But in reality, there’s nothing like tomorrow psychologically speaking. So the now, the here, the today, the this moment is the sacred, or eternity, or infinity, or whatever you want to call it—the divinity. So the perception of reality, if we are at all interested in it, has to take place in the now, the here, the today. The immeasurable, the unnameable, the immense wholeness of life, the totality of life can be perceived, can be contacted, can be understood, can be felt, sensed in the now. Whatever is here. The this-ness of time, the now-ness of life, the here-ness of reality. You know, you have to use some words.

What does this mean? It means that what we call every moment, and every movement are the sacred opportunities—please do see this—you cannot create an hour or two or four hours and set it apart and sit down and feel very noble and pious and sacred and say, I am going to discover if there is God only in those four hours, and the rest of the time follow the social way of living.  You cannot create a fragmentation inside. The opportunity to meet the wholeness of life, to feel the wholeness of life, to live in the wholeness of life is every moment and every movement.

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