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jrenee
climber
Denver, CO
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Topic Author's Original Post - Apr 18, 2008 - 09:16am PT
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Tons of people kept telling me to listen to, "the power of now"
and the author was talking and encouraging us to be more present in the moment - in the NOW. (versus thinking of past, present and future)
He says that that is why certain people LOVE to rock climb and do other extreme sports, it forces you into the NOW... and even one second of not being fully present in the moment can kill you.
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Discuss
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KuntryKlimber
Mountain climber
Rock Hill, SC
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Apr 18, 2008 - 09:19am PT
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i think, for me, it has to do with embracing earthly existence, rather than focusing on a self-serving ideology of decadence. climbing puts me closer to the miracle of death.
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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Apr 18, 2008 - 09:37am PT
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uh, 'cause it's fun?
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Apr 18, 2008 - 09:50am PT
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Why do people love climbing?....Beer, bolts, and babes.....(Everyone knows that...)
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Apr 18, 2008 - 09:50am PT
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RE:
"it forces you into the NOW..."
> you've/they've just (re)discovered this???
the meditative aspect/value of moving on stone is
a key thing for a lot of us, I think.
Awareness of the experience being more
important (for some) than competition,
though it seems to all tie together for many.
Days of climbing/exploring alone seem a liberation.
my two cents :)
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nb3000
Social climber
Oakland, CA.
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Apr 18, 2008 - 11:53am PT
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Publically, I have to agree with Todd Gordon ... what else is there??
but
then theres that feeling you get, sometimes ... that I'm not articulate enough to describe myself so I have to borrow someone else's words ... lets go with author D.T. Suzuki:
Sense of the Beyond. "...in Satori there is always what we may call a sense of the Beyond; the experience indeed is my own but I feel it to be rooted elsewhere. The individual shell in which my personality is so solidly encased explodes at the moment of Satori. Not, necessarily, that I get unified with a being greater than myself or absorbed in it, but that my individuality, which I found rigidly held together and definitely kept separate from other individual existences, becomes lossened somehow from its tightening grip and melts away into something indescribable, something which is of quite a different order from what I am accustomed to. The feeling that follows is that of complete release or a complete rest---the feeling that one has arrived finally at the destination...As far as the psychology of Satori is considered, a sense of the Beyond is all we can say about it; to call this the Beyond, the Absolute, or God, or a Person is to go further than the experience itself and to plunge into a theology or metaphysics."
... something like that.
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Brew Monkey
Big Wall climber
Bend Oregon
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Apr 18, 2008 - 12:12pm PT
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Beer, Bolts, and Babes! Classic!!!!!!!
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana
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Apr 18, 2008 - 12:58pm PT
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Way to go Jrenee...now all the Hari Krishnas will be flocking to the climbs, enjoy it while it lasts people!
BTW, the "Power of Now" sounds like another recycled version of Zen. Whose becoming a millionaire now selling this to gullible 'murcan's?
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, Ca.
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Apr 18, 2008 - 03:03pm PT
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What a bunch of western wanna-be buddhist garbage. Of course you need to live in the now, it's called focus and concentration. You also need to learn from the past so that you can create a future that suits you. You don't, or shouldn't, need a book to tell you that at this stage of your life.
Self awareness...paaalease!
Gordon's got it right though - Beer, Bolts, and Babies, err I mean Babes. (After a certain point in you life the Babes part turns into Babies though, just ask Todd).
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jstan
climber
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Apr 18, 2008 - 03:07pm PT
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You all do realize jrenee is working for a market research corporation?
Just checking.
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana
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Apr 18, 2008 - 03:31pm PT
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I hope her MR company didn't shell out any money to have someone tell them this? They could've gotten that info for free here on ST...wait a minute...this is an attempt at free research isn't it? Mums the word everybody!!!..unless we get an equal % of jrenee's cut!
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FinnMaCoul
Trad climber
Green Mountains, Vermont
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Apr 18, 2008 - 03:42pm PT
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I like to get high.
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Uncle Salty
Ice climber
Fun Diego, CA
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Apr 18, 2008 - 03:51pm PT
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Be Here Now! EST! The Power of Now! A lot of unhappy people out there wishing for a magic cure to their angst. Gotta figure out how to tap into this...
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Apr 18, 2008 - 04:42pm PT
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I get to play with my nuts and nobody gets offended.
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Lost Arrow
Trad climber
The North Ridge of the San Fernando
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Apr 18, 2008 - 10:26pm PT
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Only the now exists, so how can you not be in the now.
Its not difficult to be mindfull. I spent a lot of time yesterday just watching a Ladybug climb from blade of grass to blade of grass.
It could be the Morphine?
Juan
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Apr 18, 2008 - 10:33pm PT
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"If it's not now, like, who cares?"
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 18, 2008 - 11:14pm PT
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If its not now,
It's yesterday's news
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Dick_Lugar
Trad climber
Indiana
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Apr 18, 2008 - 11:50pm PT
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You now though, as soon as you are aware of or are in the "now", it's now the "PAST"?! It's impossible to be in the "Now". Think about that...as soon as you consciously try to be in the now and say "ok, I am now in the "now", a nanosecond passes before you make the mental acknowledgement, therefore, it is now the past, not the "now".
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