Introduction
What is “the now"?
The Flow of This
Notice how everything that’s occurring is simply an expression of now.
Being Here Now
Unpack the famous meditation instruction to “be here now.”
The Past Cannot Be Found
Consider the flow of time and how it’s not what it seems.
How Long Is Now?
Observe how every experience instantly transforms into something else.
Inseparable from the Moment
Explore the supposed boundary between yourself and all that’s happening.
There Is No Future
What if the future never actually arrives?
The Ever-Changing Nature of Now
See how the present moment is continually “liquefying, dissolving, vanishing.”
Allowing the Moment to Be As It Is
Drill down to the raw data of experience, without adding any conceptual overlay.
The Astonishing Nature of Everything
See how each instant is “a vortex of ever-transforming, ever-morphing vibrancy.”
Always Being, Always Becoming
"Something is always here, even if what's present is forever slipping away."
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The Nature of Now
John Astin invites us to investigate the character of the present moment, guiding us to a fuller connection with the fleeting yet infinite richness of “this flash instant.”
Through brief inquiries, John encourages us to explore the flow of time “not analytically but experientially”—and to encounter all that appears as “the spontaneous unfolding of life.”
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