July 31, 2025
True action is always spontaneous. Look at the present, look at each thing as it is. Learn to look at each event, each happening as it is. In a movie film each frame records a complete and independent scene yet because of the speed of the camera it seems to move while in fact there is no motion. So in life too, there is possibly no continuity of action, each action being a completely separate and independent unit. This may be termed living in the present, not to be confused with the doctrine, "Live in the presnt" which often means utilizing past experience logically in order to achieve a future goal. It is not possible because before you utter the word present it is gone.
What is needed is a complete, total attention to the action that is taking place now. Because the mind relates a present action to a future result, it is shocked, surprised by an unexpected turn of events.
Nothing turned, you turned, you were standing crooked and when time straightened you out, you felt the crookedness