“Ultimately, all moments are really one,
therefore now is an eternity.”
David Bohm
Throughout his life David Bohm gave hundreds of lectures and talks in an attempt to not only share his thinking on Thought and Dialogue but to engage his listeners in thinking about these ideas deeply and then to share and question their own thinking, with others. Bohm’s appearances where a catalyst that created and expanded the Dialogue movement that we have today in both small groups and large businesses.
Think about this: “all moments are really one.”
If we were in a room together, preferably a physical room but a virtual one would do in a pinch we could explore what Bohm may have meant when he said “all moments are really one.” We surely could come close to deciphering his meaning though we’d most certainly fall short of it exactly, and that would be ok.
The process of Dialogue by itself can be as important if not more important than any conclusion about reality we may in a moment of group clarity cast in certainty. What do you think?
A Zen student may ponder the meaning of Bohm’s quote with a series of questions.
- What could he mean?
- Does he mean there are no moments?
- Is he saying that time is continuous?
- Has he lost his mind?
- Am I the moment?
- Where can I find a cookie?
The poor Zen student is approaching it as if it were a puzzle when really it’s much simpler than putting together a thousand piece jig-saw puzzle on a rainy Saturday afternoon with your annoying brothers and sisters. Maybe looking at it while hanging onto past ways of figuring things out is merely a trip down assumption lane. Am I right? or Am I wrong? Or?