At the same time, some of Guru-ji’s words, channeled through Ami, ring true: “We keep postponing happiness. We can only experience happiness now. The present moment is inevitable.” I like that last bit a lot. It’s much better than that old dharma refrain, “Be here now,” which always struck me as too much of an imperative, an order. “I said, ‘Be here now, God damn it!’ ” But if the present moment is inevitable, then, well, I might as well embrace it.
