what he talks about it is nothing new... it is zen.. it is a mix of traditions but his way of putting simply it is his way. I don't see any trace of religions though just awareness
My definition of the word "religion" is very broad. Something like - the routine activities that surround the subconscious, core motivating principles that drive your decision making.
now you are playing with definition :) but religion has a very specific definition while before the way I used the term "now" wasn't a definition but rather a nuance in the context
"Now" is tied up with the interaction between your short term, long term and instinctive memories. So we perceive "now" as the very immediate past in light of our collected memories.
thank you: for me the Now is the eternity, it is the only mode that exists. Our minds have dualistic nature, our minds are busy decoding reality, projecting past and future
and so we are easily disconnected from what it is. That is why breathing is a very strong meditation tool, it brings our "monkey mind" to the only thing that matter,
our breathing which happens right now,we cannot breath later,we cannot breath in the past. Breath happens now, otherwise we are death. You can think that when we have this insight into
our trueself, when we look for our face before our parents were born... (to paraprase a zen koan), we have a glimpse of a non dualistic mode, which is stillness, which is now.
This can be described, however it might make nonsense at all, it is better to check by yourself... sit in meditation and do it. (then let me know what happened ^^ )
Haha touche! At least I'm laying it out as best I can. For "future" I want to define it as a the place our current momentum might take us and the chaos of things we can't predict.