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Originally Posted by Baile
That's an interesting thought but you're misspeaking here I'd say. These paths aren't misleading. Rather and like all things, it is the human being, intellectualizing about these practices rather than simply living them, who misinterprets, misunderstands, and misleads. In the same way people blame the religion, when its the fundamentalist followers and their interpretation of the holy book who are at fault.
And yes, the present moment or now is the physical-material reality human beings experience. (Although we cannot say for certain that's the case with, say, an ascended master, who may in fact have evolved a different, alt-dimensional relationship to past, present and future.) But is it truly impossible to not be in the now? That's a question. A person suffering from the torment of deep regret, is living in the past. Yes, they are physically in the present, that is true. But it is also a reality that their mind, their psyche, and their emotional life, are all chained to the past. For all intents and purposes, that person IS existing in a past reality.
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ISness (or Beingness) is The Now so to say that someone IS existing in the past is a contradiction in terms.
Its not possible to have it both ways. If it is accepted that there is only The Now then that applies to all manifestations whether it is an evolved master or someone chained in the past. Both occur in The Now.
So there is nowhere else to be and any practise that suggest there is somewhere that is not The Now which needs to be avoided, is advocating an impossible task. It is advantageous if that is the case for one is then liberated from the burden of having to work out whether one is in The Now or not, a most beneficial consequence of the concept.
If you are not saying that there is only The Now then the distortion does not arise.