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Time and looking back at your life when your old

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Presentism in a philosophical view means that only the present moment exists. That's the view in mindfulness too. We should live in the here end now as much as possible. You can argue that there is no permanent now and maybe no now at all, since time is flowing like a stream. But you can also say that we can reach a kind of eternal state in meditqtion, anyway in the space between the different  feelings and thoughts that always will occur. But of course we cannot stop aging. We will always be a part of the conventional world. Even the Gurus, even Buddha was In presentism the past has gone and the future is not yet here. That seems natural. But Einstein pushed that intuitive view a bit. His idea is is the one of block-time. The future is already there somewhere and the past exist too. This can be explained in different ways. Biu as you know it is proven that time passes faster on a mountain that in the valley beneath. Gravitation slows up time and bends space, or