Present-Moment Acceptance

Welcoming the present moment produces a felt sense of completeness in which nothing is missing and every challenge is manageable. The practice instructs acceptance of only the current moment, not the next several seconds or any future moment. The present moment is described as the best moment on the grounds that it is the only moment that can actually exist. Problems are described as requiring the mind to mentally travel into memory, anticipation, comparison, or judgment rather than existing in the immediate present. Comparing the present moment with the past or future is identified as judgment, which interrupts direct experience of the current moment.