The Arising Moment

Life is constant motion, it never stops. If the arising moment is noticed it will allow much more understanding of your life than if you’re blindly controlled by habitual mind patterns…

If the arising moment isn’t seen, that’s when the habitual conditioned mind patterns take over; it’s just the process in place. You can be in a state where you‘re happy and out of nowhere arises something that triggers one of your habitual mind patterns. Depending on what it is based in will determine if you are still happy after it’s attached to. This is how it works, we’re pulled around by patterns and the arising moment is unnoticed so it’s controlling energy attaches to what pattern is associated with the moment. This is where everything arises from, feelings, emotions, sensations, and whatnot, hence the puppet on a string syndrome takes hold if the arising moment isn’t noticed. Think about this, you can’t have any feeling or emotional swing without attachment to the moment. Most people don’t really have an understanding of this and because of this very few truly live life. I don’t say this in jest, I’m no different although I probably notice this a little more nowadays.

Here’s something to do to possibly understand the arising moment a little better. Make a commitment to sit for a certain time, say thirty seconds, keep it real. In those thirty second just watch moments arise; a thought arising and just notice it arising. Just sitting, looking, acknowledging, noticing, letting it arise and pass; all of this is just the particular arising moment. This should help in getting a better grasp of the arising moment. Increasing or decreasing the committed sitting time is up to the individual or don’t sit at all and remain a slave to the arising moment as it arises and habitually controls your life. It’s each arising moment that makes life what it is, if this goes unnoticed so will most of your life…