What is being present in its truest sense?
Thinking about the past are memories about YOUR actions, feelings and experiences which have gone by. Thinking about the future are YOUR plans, hopes, anxieties or worries relating to yourself in time to come.
To be really present there is "no room for self construction" as one teacher puts it. I think every moment experienced in the absence of 'self construction' is a moment of freedom gained. In my mind it is like a moment when a prisoner is removed off his head shackle. It is a moment when you fully immerse in the experience without much thinking.
I think in sports psychology they call it being in a 'flow state'. It is when the athlete is fully engaged in the moment focusing completely on their performance with diminished self consciousness and without any distractions.
That is why our taiji master always tells us "不要东想西想"when practicing.
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