"Ghost Dog" : the way of the Samurai - text
The text is from the Hagakure: Book of the Samurai, chapter 2.
If you want the whole text, click here : http://www.rosenoire.org/archives/Hagakure.pdf
My way to say it : "There is nothing else than the present moment, NOW. The whole life is series of NOW; NOW, NOW, NOW,... If a person Absolutely Perceives the NOW, he or she is in the Final Goal of the life. That is it ALL."
In addition in the book of Hagakure there was also this text... "Live being true to the single purpose of the moment .
Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bear it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out. Loyalty is also contained within this single-mindedness."
My way to say it : "Live in the NOW! Most of the people don't get it - 99,99%. They are looking it in the future, when they are searching the relative good. They don't Perceive, that the seacht is in vain. When a person Perceives the NOW, his or hers whole life will change. He or she finds the LIFE in life, nothing is the same any more. Because he or she is a thinking person, he or she not always stay in the NOW.
- Everybody is looking for IT. NOW is the Absolute Good. People are looking for it from the future.
- All the people are living all the time in the NOW, in the place between the past and the future, even if they don't have an idea what the NOW is.
• When you find the NOW, it is the Goal of the Life. It gives all the others - you find Yourself, you Know Absolutely Yourself, you find the Goal of the Universe Religion.
• But because a person is a thinking animal, he or she cannot live all the time in the NOW.
Look more from my texts and from the other book, that is talking about the NOW, the book of Walsch.