Are you here, now? Sure, you will answer. Where else could I be? Actually, you could be - as you often are - in other places and times. You are not in the 'present' when you spend a lengthy time lost in your mind, remembering events that make you relive happy moments or happenings whose memory makes you feel sad. You are in the past, so you are not living the present moment. The same happens when you lose yourself in reveries about what will happen, what might happen, what you would like to happen. Again, you are missing out on the present moment. Does this mean that you should not remember the past or plan for the future? Absolutely not. It means that it would be better to use your time more wisely. Both a memory or careful planning can be useful. But without "clinging".
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