What does it mean to live in the moment?

I think, living in the moment is living for yourself. You already plan on doing just that though. But really, if you live for the moment you live off of impulse. You don't plan things. If you feel like doing something then you do it right then and there.

I think being caught up in the moment is more like seeing something that takes your breath away. Being caught up in the moment is that one little time when you see something that is more beautiful than anything you've ever seen. Or your listening to something and it just gets to you like it makes you want to cry or shout for joy.

Living like you were dying or like it was your last one (BTW I have those two songs stuck in my head. Thank you oh so much!)is something else entirely. I believe that kind of thing is more like trying to do everything you didn't do when you were young or healthy in the short amount of time before you die.

"To Live In The Moment"?

I would interpret this to mean that the very next second things could change. For the better or worse.

An example....Yesterday I was so depressed because I'm pretty sure I saw the last snow of the season here. But then a few hours later I saw the sun come out and had a great laugh at my youngest boy and 2 nephews looking for Easter Eggs.

My day turned around just like that.

Doesn't mean to live like it were your last day, so much. It's more like being free enough to experience what is truly going on that particular moment - without distractions or worrying about what will happen next.

For instance, if a song of yours were up for a Academy Award, and you won, but you were too busy worrying if the film would win best picture or how you might look on camera, you might not be able to truly enjoy your own personal accomplishment. That would be not "living in the moment."

It means ego death. To release desire, to understand that your sense of yourself separates you from your being a present moment experience, and is only a useful illusion.

It is sort of like living as though you were dying, but it's very tricky to get into that state of mind if you are not really dying. You have to sit and imagine really intensely and carefully, what if you really are dying and have to let go of your life, self, and the world altogether to face death without anxiety... and if you have a really good imagination you may get it, you may have a momentary ego death, and feel you can face death without anxiety, and find yourself "in the moment."

I think it's easier to try to imagine I've just been born into this moment as myself, brand new with no attachments, worries or wants, and passively experience it and experience (not BE) my thinking, feeling, planning, judging "self" or ego, without believing anything is right, wrong, good bad etc. People with big egos like myself need to practice it to be able to do it more than a few seconds at a time, but they say that practice makes it easier and eventually you may start to live "in the moment" much of the time just out of habit.

To me all the sayings mean the same thing. Dont worry about your past and don't look towards the future. Focus on the moment in time that your in right now! Most people spend there whole lives worrying or planning and never take the time to enjoy what they have.

"To live in the moment" can mean a lot of things but really, to live like those moments that make you truely happy and that you will never forget. Not to waste time in the past or planing the future but enjoy the moments around you.

to live in the moment means to go with want rather than need and not consider the consequence that comes later it can be a good or a bad thing depending on the situation

to live in the moment is to focus your mind solely that minute. Savor it like wine... feel like and wear it like your skin... know if fully...

caught up in the moment is to lose track of time and get soo focused on what 's happening that you lose yourself..

Live like you were dying... pull out all the stops and do everything you've been putting off... cleanse your soul by forgiving and asking forgiving and preparing to die ( settle your accounts spiritually and monetarily) It doesn mean to live every moment like it's your last one.

Loser (ouch!)

Eckhart Tolle wrote a book about that that I could not begin to properly interpret. Grab it at your local library. It's called,

The Power of Now." He also wrote, "Practicing the Power of Now" and "A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life's Purpose." You will find them enlightening.

http://www.oprah.com/ is doing a FREE class on "A New Earth." It's great, and the transcripts of the first 4 weeks of class are on line.

I knew this guy who followed the doctrines of Postnowism. He was always one step ahead.