Jack Petranker MA, JD, is Director of the Center for Creative Inquiry and Mangalam Research Center for Buddhist Languages, both in Berkeley, California, and teaches Full Presence Mindfulness, an online program of courses. He has been a student of the Tibetan lama Tarthang Tulku since 1980.
The "present moment" is on everyone's lips nowadays. But do we really know what we mean by it? The philosophers of antiquity help us get underneath the cliché.