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Originally Posted by wolfgang  Have you ever thought of it this way? The past and future only exist as thoughts and thoughts only exist in the present moment. That means the past and future are part of the present moment and don't really exist in terms of time. Past and future are only thoughts that we can only have in the present moment. I tend to think it's ok to have thoughts about the past and future - that by itself is not taking me out of the present.
The problem comes when these thoughts of past or future contain regret or fear. Past thoughts can have regret and future can have fear. So it's the quality of these thoughts or the attachments to emotions of past and future that bogg us down.
In other words, remembering something cool in my past is actually good for my now moment. Thinking about something being positive in the future is good for my now moment. |
There's nothing wrong with thinking of the past, if it's joyous that's fine, but often, thoughts of the past are negative and affect and infect our present and that's never good.
Max