What does the past and the future do? Have you ever thought: what is the role of the past and the future? If you look at it deeply, you will realize the truth - they are meant to rob the present.
The only thing that belongs to us is the present, the now, this moment. But because the mind creates the future and tells us something about it, we get so busy thinking about the future that we forget the present. The past does exactly the same. The mind creates memories of the past and takes us to that memory, only to rob us of the present. By shuttling between the past and the future, what actually happens is that we lose the present. The only thing that belongs to us is the present. There is no past, there is no future. The past is memories; the future are thoughts. The real challenge is not to be in the past, not to be in the future; the real challenge is to be in the ‘now,’ to live in this moment, to grab hold of what is ‘now’ and make the best of what is ‘now,’ and live ‘now.’
If only we can live in the ‘now,’ our life would be amazing, our life would be fulfilling, our life would have achieved its objective. We must shut these two doors – one door going to the past and the other going to the future, and live in the day-tight compartment; live in the moment called ‘now.’
AiR
What role does the past and present play in our life?
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Very good post.AiR wrote:What does the past and the future do? Have you ever thought: what is the role of the past and the future? If you look at it deeply, you will realize the truth - they are meant to rob the present.
The only thing that belongs to us is the present, the now, this moment. But because the mind creates the future and tells us something about it, we get so busy thinking about the future that we forget the present. The past does exactly the same. The mind creates memories of the past and takes us to that memory, only to rob us of the present. By shuttling between the past and the future, what actually happens is that we lose the present. The only thing that belongs to us is the present. There is no past, there is no future. The past is memories; the future are thoughts. The real challenge is not to be in the past, not to be in the future; the real challenge is to be in the ‘now,’ to live in this moment, to grab hold of what is ‘now’ and make the best of what is ‘now,’ and live ‘now.’
If only we can live in the ‘now,’ our life would be amazing, our life would be fulfilling, our life would have achieved its objective. We must shut these two doors – one door going to the past and the other going to the future, and live in the day-tight compartment; live in the moment called ‘now.’
AiR
It's a dilemma for the assumed human mind to live only in the present NOW.
Purely because no one actually lives there. It's the place of perfect peace devoid of superficial human thought based drama.
Deeper understanding of the presence of now is to be aware there is no one living or doing life, there is only effortless living and doing appearing only and ever now. And that future and past have no reality except as human thoughts appearing in the only reality now. The assumed entity shuffles between the conceptual illusions of past and future purely because that's the only place it can exist.
Such is the bizarre pseudo appearance of life in the eternal now.
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Re: What role does the past and present play in our life?
The present does things. The past did things. The future will do things.AiR wrote:What does the past and the future do?
Things that happened and things that will happen.Have you ever thought: what is the role of the past and the future?
Aside from that, I agree with the importance of present mindfulness.