living in the "moment"

I am writing today after a long time and I’m writing in English. I might post some thoughts in Farsi depending on my mood of the ‘moment’.

This weblog is all about the ‘moment’….this specific moment of time that will not ever be repeated; it can be copied, can be forgotten but cannot be erased from the calendar of universe time…it is said that Buddhists live in the moment, can that be true? If you’re a person like me whose brain flies from one branch to another, from sky to underwater, from a spoon to the planet mars, from sex to work, how can you leave in the moment? Maybe I should do a research on the ability of living in the moment.

I think the ability of living in the moment is one aspect and the freedom of the living in the moment is another aspect. Maybe I should rephrase the whole thing: how free are you to live in the moment? For example, right now, I’m free to write instead of working although I’m at work!

Me: Am I supposed to work? Yes!
Me: Am I working? No!

Who decides what I’m “supposed” to do? The society? The government? Myself? Probably a combination of all but for some reason I feel the last one is the main one. Is my feeling right?

I remember I had a client who wanted her house to be designed per feng-shui codes and recommendations and one day she called me:

She: I think the roof plan is drawn incorrectly!
Me: why?
She: because I feel it’s drawn incorrectly and the feng-shui text says if you feel something is wrong it probably is!!!

After having the roof plan checked by couple of other people in the office, it turned out it was drawn correctly.

So, back to what I was talking about, maybe what I feel is not right after all. Maybe it’s not all my fault that I’m not usually living in the moment: no work, no money, no food, no shelter! As simple as that. But is it? Probably I should ask a real Buddhist to know what exactly they mean by living in the moment!