Nirvana is NOW - Alan Watts about The Present Moment

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Serendipitous... I need this. How many hours I have wasted?

It’s just like that

Spring and Summer are just words.
Achieve nirvana and the pigs come for you.

Take it easy - My dad

It's one thing to try quieting down the mind towards a state without thoughts, however how can a mind that has been trained to anticipate what's coming up ever relax on the present moment?

For example,
To avoid sudden surprises and having to jam on the brakes that result in clouds of smoke, a good driver's view should never stay locked on the immediate traffic and pavement but should always alternate with glances ahead to see what is happening further down the road. As a bleeding heart animal lover I can spot the squirrels and other creatures that are poised to run across the road, and am terrified when one suddenly comes out that I couldn't know about; devastated if I cause their mamimg or death.

Teachers, supervisors, foremen and fashion designers all have one eye looking at the future while dealing with the present moment.

Musicians and conductors who literally "know the score" have a similar knowledge about what is coming up. To "Be Here Now" we must somehow unite the past and the future into the eternal now

How can this tendency be obliterated so as to relax on the present moment?

Nibbana exists

It can attain via purification of mind.
We have already cling mind, mental factors and aggregates.

There are concepts.
Mental factors manipulate mind.
The mind can stay eight cells. a particle.
A particle is aggregate.

To go Nibbana, we have to purify mind first.
We have to send loving kindness to all people who had gratitude upon us and all sentient beings to get peaceful mind.

Nibbana is very pure and peace state.
Nibbana has no mind , no mental factors and no particle.