Can you detach yourself from your present to catch a particular moment ?

Question:no i am certainly not asking for day dreaming....
if the circustances are not in your favour how will you enjoy that moment.....

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: no i am certainly not asking for day dreaming....
if the circustances are not in your favour how will you enjoy that moment.....

Certainly. If a moment is significant enough to be aware of, it is significant enough to be received, experienced and enjoyed. Life is full of mechanical actions and reactions so much so that hours and days blend together into a pap of earthly tedium making it imperative to catch the odd ray of sunshine. It has always been my way to set aside the bread and butter of life to enjoy the occasional drop of unexpected honey but if circumstances dictate otherwise then I am mentally able to rein in the anticipation in order to release and enjoy later at my leisure. Life and memories are nothing if not experiences of "particular moments".

I do it all the time. It just takes the will...

We all time drift. The children and aged do it more often. Time is a human notion, just slip out of it and the universe is yours. Who needs to be limited by human thought?

That's what you do whenever you think or meditate. The act of the intellect is to abstrahate from the individual existence to a general notion whereby it hopes to catch the truth about things and events without being tricked by the phenomena.

Yes you can.it also helps you to recollect your self.

You or anyone else can do it because the present moment is truly the only reality.

you just enjoy the moment as it comes.....there isn't any process for it, its just an experience.
you have to realize that the moment you are calling your present now has already zoomed by you before you even know it. And whatever the situation remember that everything changes so will this. And some meditating (I practise the Sudarshan Kriya everyday) and some good yoga too will be beneficial. And if you are looking for something on relationships then watch 'Narad Bhakti Sutra' Narad's (A monk's) way of love and devotion.

Most of the time.....except when I'm the last one in line at WalMart.

compromise with the situation and enjoy.

I will go back to those dayz when I was with her.
I wish I could have life remote control, I would press Rewind button and take myself to 2001.

I think it can be a good tool. I use it to recapture special moments. I can't time travel except to the past.

Sure. Can't everyone?

Yes, i can detach myself from my present to catch a particular moment.

Haiku! to capture a moment.
We sense something extraordinary and we learn how to make the ordinary extraordinary and take the time to discribe it in as few words as possible.

Do we not do this when we are having sex., petting the dog, eating a meal?
Our days are made up of a series of moments captured, considered and either tossed aside or saved in our memory box and repeated over and over again.

Circumstantial evidence of a moment being bad, boring or completely balderdash comes only for within the mind of the person who is experiencing that moment. It is all therefore entirely in the mind that one may need to sense for a better grasp for the reality. And this is all that matters. Once an idea, a notion, or an understating of a thing, or a moment initially good or bad, is well within the grasp of the mind it is no longer cause of a concerns, or source of anxiety or pain. The empty moments are full of empty ideas of an unfocused mind. They cause drainage of mind’s power and leave it emptier then ever before.

I would be honest, just honest and brave to face that moment. All the moments to come, that I would eventually find once I have passed through the moment that I have now, will always include that moment that I am now. I would not try to detach myself from the moment I might have, in search of some illusionary joy, I would instead attach myself to it the best way I can. I understand after much pain and suffering that we need to standby the time we bring upon ourselves. If that time is not a happy time and there is some sense in that being unhappy then I would rather endure it. I would stay true to myself, and to the time I have. There happiness in pain too, long as we are sensible enough to know that it is our own.

some time

That happens I think, when you're less expecting it, it's not something you can do at a command

Only when l am lucky can that work. The here and now dominates. But I am working on it.