The Truth of the Present Moment

What became the “Free Speech Movement” got underway in 1962 at Cal Berkeley culminating in 1500 students demonstrators protesting university administration policy against political speech.

All the truths we know eventually change into not knowing. We do the best with what we have and learn to ride the waves of change with what amounts to equanimity and celebration. – after Kee Nanayon

Make all circumstances your teachers. – Dipa Ma

The words I am writing, that you are reading at this moment, are secondary to the primary reality of what Tolle calls “presence,” which is always in the background, between these words, even between the l e t t e r s in each of these words. The “presence” is not an intellectual event. Rather, it is what in Buddhism translates to “what is,” “suchness,” “just this.” The past is called “the past” because it has passed and is not, while the future is not-yet.