This is a guided meditation on the classic exhortation ‘be here now!” first published as a book title by Ram Das in 1971. The now is not a now in a sequence of other now’s. It’s not a moment in linear time, stretching backwards to the past and forwards to the future. It’s hard to put it into words, but the now is more like the space in which everything appears; or Mind outside of time; timeless or presence. The now is also the knower or the witness of all that is appearing. So, another metaphor is we're sitting on the bank, witnessing the river that’s flowing. The river of course is constantly changing. The old expression you can't step into the same river twice. And the stepper itself is always changing. There is nothing to grasp onto, just continuous change. We are both the witness sitting on the bank and the river. They're not two.

Recorded 29.07.18.

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