This is Dan of Vagabond Buddha. I’m in the park running in Malaysia.
And, in the present moment in the Buddhist sense. I’m surrounded by nature.
And, I thought it might be useful to have a conversation. If I can do it. About how being in the present moment reminds me of how a computer works, in some ways.
And it’s just an analogy, it’s not perfect, but I’d like to share it with you.
And as I do this, i’ll be going back and forth from my history, which is a mind function, and being in the present moment, of this run, of this beautiful park.
So a computer has a memory and it has programs and it has an operating system.
An operating system takes a program from memory and puts it in the processor which begins to execute instructions. And those programs, when they’re executing, have control of the processor.
Computer is like human mind
And I’m going to call the processor the human mind when it’s running a program.
So let’s pick a program of some kind, let’s say an accounting program. So when the operating system puts an accounting program into faster memory, the processor thinks, in a metaphysical sense, that it is an accounting program. And it executes steps, that the accounting software tells it to execute.