When you say: “To
live happy let us live in the present moment ''
you did not say anything. Those who seek to be happy, who does
not seek it ? And who do not find happiness say to themselves,
by reading this sentence: '' yes;
the past is dead, the future is not, then the present… why not?”
But which is the procedure to follow to live in the present
moment ? Is it just a question of posture?
Is it necessary to think to the present, to be attentive with all that surrounds us? Should you burn you photo album ? Should you cancel your retirement saving ? To tear your diary?
The happiness is indeed in the
moment, it is not a figure of speech nor a philosophical posture. The
present moment exists indeed and even only it really exists: the rest
is only memories, calculations, dreams and projects. When you are
entirely present in the moment, you are alive and feel happiness to
be alive. You know, only the human being has a problem with
happiness: all the other living creatures are happy by default. They
live in the moment, do not regret the past nor are projected in the
future.
It would be yet necessary to define what happiness means and if it is the Graal to be discovered, the goal, the purpose of the existence. Do not confuse happiness and satisfaction, as you should not confuse the needs and the desires. By convention the word happiness is used to indicate the mood found in the moment, but other words can be used such as: Peace, bliss, serenity.
This
state can be lived, but not explained. It is impossible to describle
the taste of a fruit to somebody which never tasted it before, then
this state of Conscience contained in the moment !
Some
activities are more favourable for the Conscience of the moment than
others. For example a watchmaker, leaned on the repair or the
manufacture of a delicate mecanical and complexe watch movement will
be more in the present moment than a salesman animating a sale
meeting in an exhibition hall. The extreme physical and mental
concentration of his work allow the watchmaker to be focalised on his
gesture and his thoughts calm down, his mood ease and he goes across
the doors of the moment.
Some manual works allow this
Conscience and lead to a great satisfaction. For example: vine
grower, logger, cook, cabinetmaker, carpenter and, as one said in my
youth, roadmender etc I arrange them in the yoga of the action or
karma-yoga.
“Remain in the Duty detached but not indifferent do not imagine
to be the author of your works “ [Bhaktimàrga 2-3-9]
The moment exists and it is the only one which exists. If you want to live in full Conscience, go ahead. It is there that all occurs. The bliss is the treasure of the moment. Be in the moment and you will find the Peace there. On the path there is this practice of the moment by a particular technique, one of the four revealed, which makes this frequentation possible every day without being, for as much, neither a large yogi nor an ethereal mystic.
This technique which is
revealed when you make the request, allow to remain in the moment.
The goal of the path is to live fully in the present moment and to
meet there the interior Peace in order to achieve the reason of our
coming. There is a concept, in the Hindu mystic, which is the Màyà
or illusion. It is in this Màyà that the duality, confusion and the
suffering are. Out of the moment is the illusion.
Is it right to be in the moment but how do you do ? To go to the pruning of the vines? To repair a clock? Some do sports, others take drugs, alcohol, or play casino in order to forget their anguishes and to be in the moment.
To live in the moment, it is good to know the path and to wish to go there. Without desire to go nothing is possible. It is necessary to wish it and agree to release its past, to project itself vainly in the future. The practice of the path allow to go and remain in the present and to keep under control our mind.
Do you remember the feeling of time that you had as child ? How summer holidays seemed long then ! They seemed to last for ever. Your soul is thirsty for the state met in the moment.
