Here and Now

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Which brings us back to here and now. The idea of the 'here and now' is not a Jewish idea. The Jews live in the past or they live in the future, but not now. Here and Now is a Buddhist Idea which infiltrated Western Religion slightly more than two thousand years ago, one of the products of Alexander's conquest of The East. This new idea of Here and Now is the source of Jesus' idea of The Kingdom of Heaven. In the words of BSR, commenting on the Gospel of Thomas, 'This is the Kingdon of God; here is the Kingdom of Heaven. If you are looking for it somewhere else, you are looking in vain.'