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Originally Posted by wolfgang  If you try to find the past, how are you finding it? Only in your present moment thoughts. |
Very good WG
The trick with the past is that we consider it's already happened, so when our thoughts go there we say "ah, that's right, I remember that" but try this......think of a time in the past and then insert something that didn't happen there and..............it's the same image, just as powerful, just as meaningful.
What does this show us?? That the past may be not so real as we think
and it is just as malleable as the future. This is pushing the envelope, but how do we know it actually happened. Well, we need to consider it did, to keep us from getting locked up (again
) in the nut house!
If the past can only exist when we think about it now, then it's the same with the future. the future can only exist when we think about it now, so how we think of the future will actually create the future.........now. The word
future is a lame duck word, for it never happens, it's like tomorrow, it never comes, why? Because it's actually today, right now. We're not moving through time, we are completely stationary in the container, in consciousness, in a place/space that is stable and reliable.
So if the whole experience of growth is illusionary, then so is time. We don't move forward to obtain our intentions, they appear right now in the present. We can't go some place in the future to get what we want and we don't bring it from somewhere, it's here right now, because there is only now.
Max