" 'Spirituality' is a particular term which actually means: dealing with intuition. In the theistic tradition there is a notion of clinging into a word. A certain act is regarded as displeasing to a divine principles. A certain act is regarded as pleasing for the divine - whatever. In the tradition of non-theism, however, it is very direct that the case history are not particularly important. What is actually important is: Here and now. Now's definitely the now. We try to experience what is available, there, on the spot. There is no point in thinking that a past did exist that we could have now. This is now. This very moment. Nothing mystical, just now. A very simple, straight forward...
And from that nowness, however, arises a sense of intelligence. Always. That you are constantly interacting with the reality one by one. Spot by spot. Constantly. We actually experience fantastic precision. Always. But we are threatened by the now, so we jump to the past or the future.
Paying attention to the materials that exist in our life, such rich life that we lead, all these choices takes place, all of the time. But none of them are regarded as bad or good per se, everything we experience are unconditional experience. They don't come along with a label saying this is regarded as bad, or this is good. But, we experience them, but we don't actually pay heed to them, properly. We don't actually regard that as that we are going somewhere. We regard that as a hassle. Waiting to be dead.
Death's problem- And that is: not trusting the nowness properly. That what is actually experienced now possessed a lot of powerful things. It is so powerful that we can't face it. Therefore we have to borrow from the past, invite the future. All the time.
..And maybe, that's why we seek religion. Maybe that's why we march in the street. Maybe that's why we complain to society. Maybe that's why we vote for the presidents. It's quite ironic. ...Very funny indeed." - Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
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