Now
Edited extract from the Tamborine Talk August 1988.
The truth is now. The truth is that life is right now. Please look at it: Life is right here now.
If you’re going to project yourself backwards or forwards by any analytical thought, you’re going to enter time. Any judgment of what I am saying (instead of listening, receiving) is going to make time.
What is the truth of life now? It is now, without any intellectual activity whatever. Does that make any difference to your existence? No, it doesn’t. But now you are with your existence; now you have eliminated the distance between your existence and yourself. You have brought them together. There is now no time. But there is action, the passage of events. And action is timeless. If you look around you see movement of the wind, the trees; you see the people come into the room, or the movement of your own hands; you hear your own voice or the voices of others. That is all movement, all action - all timeless. It never ceases.
Action Purifies