Every teacher of the “now” philosophy will say that awareness of the present moment comes when the mind does not dominate with memory and anticipation.
What is the mind if not a product of memory and anticipation? Without the past (memory) and the future (anticipation) where is mind? Before memory, could there be anticipation? Where was mind before memory? Where IS mind now?
To whom does awareness of the ‘now’ (or ‘no mind') arise? And from whence does this awareness arise?
These are not questions we can find the answers to here or anywhere for that matter. Finding an answer is the end of inquiry. An answer is a stopping point, a door closed to unexpected possibility. Answers are from memory only. ‘No answer’ is that space which is alive in the moment and is the portal through which all possibility is born.
Inquiry is a tool of awareness. The questioning of the ‘habits’ of mind as it sees its vision of reality through the lens of memory arises from awareness itself.
When we inquire into the mental meanderings of the mind and recognize that awareness is there in that very moment, and that WE aren’t DOING it, we realize that awareness is the source of inquiry, as inquiry is happening. AND, no one is doing anything. No questioner...no answer. Only awareness.
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