When we are mindful – identifying with the mind as everything – we return to the decision maker that sees the terrible effects of choosing to live with limitation, when it could just as easily chosen limitlessness. - Kenneth Wapnick, The Healing Power of Kindness, Vol. 2: Forgiving our Limitations, p. 11
This instant is the only time there is.
I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. And love is ever-present, here and now.
Thanks for this instant, Father. It is now I am redeemed. This instant is the time. You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him.
When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love. - Thich Nhat Hanh
‘Right Mindfulness’ is the seventh aspect of the Noble Eightfold Path as taught by the Buddha. This practice of mindfulness is emphasized greatly in Zen Buddhism. Through the work of teachers such as Jon Kabat-Zinn and Zen monk Thich Nhat Hanh, the practice and benefits of mindfulness have been popularised and made available in the mainstream.
Having personally stayed in Plum Village (a Zen community in France) for a few weeks, I can attest to the fact that mindfulness is an extremely effective technique for psychological and spiritual well-being. At regular intervals at the community, a large bell is struck. All activity within the center – people preparing food, people walking from one place to another, people talking – everything stops when the bell sings.
It is a call for everyone to come back into their breathing and their center. Everyone takes 3 mindful, conscious breaths, and carries on whatever it is they were doing before. The sense of calm I experienced was indescribable, and carried on for weeks even after I left the community.
While A Course in Miracles does not espouse any particular practice or technique of returning our attention to the present moment, it is just as clear on the importance on not living in the past or future, but in the now:
Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no other time. M-24.6.4:7, A Course in Miracles
The ego has a strange notion of time, and it is with this notion that your questioning might well begin. The ego invests heavily in the past, and in the end believes that the past is the only aspect of time that is meaningful. Remember that its emphasis on guilt enables it to ensure its continuity by making the future like the past, and thus avoiding the present. By the notion of paying for the past in the future, the past becomes the determiner of the future, making them continuous without an intervening present. For the ego regards the present only as a brief transition to the future, in which it brings the past to the future by interpreting the present in past terms. T-13.IV.4. A Course in Miracles
It is evident that the Holy Spirit’s perception of time is the exact opposite of the ego’s. The reason is equally clear, for they perceive the goal of time as diametrically opposed. The Holy Spirit interprets time’s purpose as rendering the need for time unnecessary. He regards the function of time as temporary, serving only His teaching function, which is temporary by definition. His emphasis is therefore on the only aspect of time that can extend to the infinite, for now is the closest approximation of eternity that this world offers. It is in the reality of “now,” without past or future, that the beginning of the appreciation of eternity lies. For only “now” is here, and only “now” presents the opportunities for the holy encounters in which salvation can be found. T-13.IV.7. A Course in Miracles
Here, A Course in Miracles offers a theological explanation for the importance of being in the present moment – bearing in mind that time is an illusory concept, the now is the the only aspect of time which has any resemblance to eternity in Heaven. The now is the only moment that is; the now is the only moment that has ever been; the now will be the only moment there ever will be. Like a laser reading a DVD, all of history – from the Big Bang to the disappearance of the universe – will flow through one singular, infinitesimal moment – this very present moment. Right now.
It is in the now that all our forgiveness opportunities exist. It does not matter if it is something that we have done years, months, or days ago – from this moment, we can heal what has happened in our past.… since time isn’t real – and because memory is just as much of a perception as any other image – you can forgive a past event at any time, even if the person who is associated with your forgiveness is no longer seemingly living in a body. Pg. 179, DU
Next: A Course in Miracles & Buddhism – Part 6: Wholeness
On behalf of Spirit, I say, you are very welcome! Love, Ken - 
Ken -
What benefit is possible to reject the Eternal Bliss of NOW for a past that does not exist?
None!
Its working, Peace begins with me. Thanks, J