Lesson 52, Today’s review covers these ideas:
L6. I am upset because I see what is not there.
L7. I see only the past.
L8. My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
L9. I see nothing as it is now.
L10. My thoughts do not mean anything.
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Comment:
What do you mean that I see only the past? That can be a hard one to get. I can hear the scientist saying: But I am looking at the present. And the reply Well technically you are seeing something that happened a few nanoseconds ago. So….maybe there’s something here?
The difference in the quality of the moment for me is that if I am seeing through the lens of the past there is generally some variety of upset there. Whereas the more I let that lens go, the less I am seeing through ‘thorny’ covered lenses as it were, the more peace I experience. It doesn’t have to be thorny of course. It can also be a happy dream of the past. But even a happy dream of the past is a distraction from the present.
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