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Originally Posted by youngnostic
While I do agree with what you've written, I happen to paraphrase the "now" concept and call it the "eternal now consciousness" -- you see the subtle difference here? Instead of calling it the now, which is a beginingless constant, I call it a state of "consciousness" where you are aware of the present moment. Now the problem lays in the fact that if you have a goal for being in the 'now' and place a gap between the 'now' and the future where you receive the fruit of the now it is no longer the now... so it's a tricky concept... the key is not so much being concerned whether or not you are in the 'now', since, as you've already put, we are helplessly there, but rather being open to the idea of when you dismantle yourself from Time itself and settle spontaneously in the Eternal Now. It's a form of understanding where you see time as an illusion and you cannot help but embrace the Now for it is all there truly is.
Namaskar.
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As long as the now is all there is, the despair of having to work out whether you are in it or not disappears. Resonating with a concept that totally trancends is a desirable happenchance dont you think? Otherwise there is always something to sort out/achieve before the feeling of disconnection can end.