Waiting for the future

Following up on Jack’s invitation, here’s a statement and a question: we tend to wait for the future, at the expense of living our lives in our own time (Waiting for the Second Coming, Waiting for Godot). The alternative we have been studying, where the dynamic of time, coming through the future but uniting the wholeness of time, reminds me of the idea of the path, where we need a goal to guide us out of the darkness and confusion, but are never really present in our lives except by being alive in the step we are taking right now.  So how can we let the future guide us to the vital heart of life, without waiting for it to arrive later? –Michael

About Michael Gray

I first started studying TSK in the mid 1980's and have since attended a number of retreats and workshops at the Nyingma Institute, in both TSK and Buddhist themes. I participated in the life-changing Human Development Training Program in 1991, and upon returning to Albuquerque co-founded an organization, Friends in Time (with a friend who has Lou Gehrig's Disease), which continues to serve people with similiar disabilities. I contributed an essay to "A New Way of Being"--the last one in the book--in which I describe how learning to honor who I have been has broadened and deepened my openness to present experience. I live in New Mexico with my wife and two sons.
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