Does the present moment exist in the way that we think it does? We often say things like, "This is happening right now" and we experience things as happening in the present moment. Khenpo presents the example of the finger snap. We think of that as happening "now". But, when we look at the moment of the finger snap, we could divide that subtle moment into smaller and smaller moments. The process doesn't stop. So, there's no moment in which there could be a snap. Personally, this argument didn't do too much for me as is. I had to really reflect on how I experience the present moment as oppose to how I think conceptually about the present moment. I experience the present moment as something pregnant with perception. Things seem three dimensional in the present moment. When I start thinking about the smallest moment in time, I begin to think about the present moment as almost two dimensional--kind of like a frame in a movie reel. So, working with this argument helped me loosen hard and fast ideas of the present moment as something tangible.
Relaxing the mind,
I reach to the azure sky.
Know we are the same.
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