Nad A.:
Gabriel, please jump in as often as you can. I appreciate all the help I can get with this.
That’s nice to know, Nad (and I may fail to actually help you, but it’s still fun (and beneficial) for ‘me’, as I am obsessed with this topic; however, I really, really, want to see you succeed).
Nad A.:
What Trent is talking about there is wonder which can apply to all things equally. In that case, what I'm wondering is what is relatively more fascinating about the fact that it is always now? Tarin didn't ask if it had been noticed that grass is green. He mentioned a particular fact so there must be something specific to the fact that 'it is always now' that has particular wondrousness. I do not understand what that is.
For me, ‘what is relatively more fascinating about the fact that it is always now’, that ‘something specific to the fact that 'it is always now' that has particular wondrousness’, is the security and safety (and, of course, the wonder) that is engendered or, at least, remembered, when no other memory holds sway over 'me' because of the experience or, at least, the contemplative appreciation of this (utterly still, unmoving, but not static) moment in time… and I don’t need to remind you about the power that ‘just a memory’ can have over ‘me’ (but I will), as on Jul 8, 2007 (and please let me know if you mind my crossposting), you wrote the following to Srini [Message #68 / yahoo]:
Nad A.:
Embarrassment, for example, is very 'painful' to me and feels like it really 'hurts'. Like a reflex action, just a memory of an embarrassment makes me mimic shooting myself in the head or thinking that I wish I could smash my head into the wall.
So, if a negative feeling/memory can work ‘Like a reflex action’ (and have you noticed that negative feelings/memories only serve a purpose relative to past/future events)… why not make a felicitous feeling/memory have the same effect *now* – the only moment in time it can actually have an effect on – which would instead ‘ your mind toward that mode of perception that enables the verdancy of grass to be wondrously striking.. scintillating to the eyes’, as Tarin pointed out?
I get the impression that (to a degree) you feel (intellectually, I’m sure you know this not to be the case) that experiencing this (only) moment in time is something akin to ‘me’ experiencing the past and/or the future, however, without all of ‘my’ fancy and elaborate distractions (that is, ‘my’ dreams and schemes)… in other words, a somewhat bland and boring experience of whatever is in front of ‘me’ now, including ‘my’ nose, experienced by a somewhat bland and boring ‘me’… but what if ‘I’ weren’t bland and boring? What would happen to the bland and boring 'now', then? What would 'you' mimic with the memory of perfection (the perfect memory)?
Again, for me, nothing short of naivety did the trick, which finally made it click, to end the nick of the tick shtick dilemma; today, the past, present and future function more like inches or meters do, they serve a practical purpose, not a defining one (although I've met a few people who still manage to define themselves by the latter

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Having nothing else to say on the subject... I truly hope all your endeavors bear fruits of success soon.
You surely deserve it.
Regards,
Gabriel