by Rosario Buenaflor

Created on: January 16, 2009   Last Updated: August 12, 2010

When is our moment regarded important or valuable? Is it when it's filled with activities and lessons learned?  Productivity or procrastination?  That's what we want to know.  Our time is so important to us because most of us think that we only have a finite amount of it, sooner or later, it's going to run out.  Human nature yearns to be effective and creative, and so we had better get on with it. Right?  Time is of the essence.  Without doubt, time is the cause of our worries.  But most often having more time does not make us happier, either.  We have to try to look at things in a different way.

Like a genie who came out of a bottle, we are bestowed with time and freedom to live that time the way we like. That freedom or condition is created by life and time together, inseparably. Vital and free, time is ours. Every moment entails excitement, anticipation, a new beginning. There is an imaginary place called, 'Kingdom of Doing', where the act of doing is celebrated thus, it belongs to the kingdom. Our world is the same as that kingdom because the best acts of doing and being are those that are born out of love and enthusiasm - a celebration of doing and being.  It's useless to measure how good or how valuable something is because everything changes.  No deed or action is more important than another.  Every celebration has an accompanying stillness.

Our every waking, and dreaming, moment is where possibilities happen. A moment could last a lifetime. One's dream could take a lifetime to achieve, yet that dream exists in one's mind as a moment in time. So, in a way, a lifetime can be contained in a single moment. How are we to judge what someone's dream is? How are we to judge what a moment really is for someone, or, ask why someone is doing such-and-such? The moment is a landscape where we live our dreams and try out possibilities.

Being physically present, having the full use of all our known senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, our physical reality extends in all directions, and these directions transcend space and time. Often we experience 'deja vu', a feeling of having seen or experienced something before; experiencing a sensation of timelessness.  Somehow this moment is greater than what we conceptualize it to be. There is another time, another place, and it's not somewhere else, it's actually here now, as a reality. Possibility is not impossible.

The physical validity of everything in life

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