Fighting With The Present Moment
Scott Kiloby is the most recent spiritual teacher that I’ve been listening to. In “Love’s Quiet Revolution“, he says that people spend the vast majority of, if not all, their psychological time in one of three states:
- Regretting the past,
- Worrying about the future,
- Resisting/fighting with the present.
I’ve heard of the first two states, but the third one was depressingly new to me. To test out this assertion, I googled my horrendously inadequate memory to dig up several instances where I “fought” with the present moment yesterday:
- I got pissed when the dumb bell weights I use in my workout routine were missing from their slots.
- I got pissed off when the shower water turned scalding hot after someone flushed the terlet.
- I got pissed off when I spilled my bottle of Brute in the gym.
And these events happened within the space of just one hour at the gym! If I tried to recall all my bouts with the present moment yesterday, I’d probably need several more pages to recount them. How about you? How many fights with the present moment were you in yesterday?
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What are you doing drinking champagne at the GYM?!?! No wonder you get pissed off–you’re sauced all the time.
And what about that 4th state where you blissfully sit in peaceful ignorance of the world of insanity that surrounds you–or is that what the champagne is for?
D’oh! I knew my workout wasn’t working out.
Naw, champagne is not strong enough for the bliss-peace-ignorance state. Need to go prescription or better.