From a site visitor: “It's fine to say enjoy the ‘now’ and not let thoughts of the future bother you. In other words, if you are feeling good now, no matter what might happen, don't let anything bother you. But, let's say you aren't feeling good. Maybe you’re in severe pain from your accident. Seems you need the thought of a better future to get you through the ‘now’.”
F.: Since all "thoughts" are fictional, how can any “thought” help? "Thoughts" are generated by the “mind” which is nothing more than an illusion—the storehouse of all lies and concepts. Since there is no one to be helped, how can anything help? Since "the future" is a figment of the imagination of the “mind,” there is no future to be better or worse. If you give up your fictional belief in the future, the thoughts of the future also dissolve. There is no feeling “good” or “bad” now. There is only now. As Grandfather told Tom Brown, he does not complain about the weather because “when it’s cold it’s cold and when it’s hot it’s hot.”
Yes, the body is still experiencing pain from the accident last October 31st, but that has nothing to do with Me. The suggestion is to live as the deer lives. The deer takes action, if threatened, in order to address the threat, but that usually involves taking a defensive action like moving away from the danger. The deer does not cling to any fear about whether or not the threat will happen in "the future." It does not spend its days after a fright in eternal fear. It lives naturally, having no burdensome concepts (including the concept of a “future”) so it knows no future threats and has no worries about the future. The same can be the case with you, but you do not believe that because of programming and conditioning and your desire for body-mind-personality continuity. See that such continuity would not be a “reward” but would be a "punishment," take the steps required to re-purify the consciousness, and then live AS IF for the remainder of the manifestation of the consciousness…free of the burden of belief in any concepts. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
F.: Since all "thoughts" are fictional, how can any “thought” help? "Thoughts" are generated by the “mind” which is nothing more than an illusion—the storehouse of all lies and concepts. Since there is no one to be helped, how can anything help? Since "the future" is a figment of the imagination of the “mind,” there is no future to be better or worse. If you give up your fictional belief in the future, the thoughts of the future also dissolve. There is no feeling “good” or “bad” now. There is only now. As Grandfather told Tom Brown, he does not complain about the weather because “when it’s cold it’s cold and when it’s hot it’s hot.”
Yes, the body is still experiencing pain from the accident last October 31st, but that has nothing to do with Me. The suggestion is to live as the deer lives. The deer takes action, if threatened, in order to address the threat, but that usually involves taking a defensive action like moving away from the danger. The deer does not cling to any fear about whether or not the threat will happen in "the future." It does not spend its days after a fright in eternal fear. It lives naturally, having no burdensome concepts (including the concept of a “future”) so it knows no future threats and has no worries about the future. The same can be the case with you, but you do not believe that because of programming and conditioning and your desire for body-mind-personality continuity. See that such continuity would not be a “reward” but would be a "punishment," take the steps required to re-purify the consciousness, and then live AS IF for the remainder of the manifestation of the consciousness…free of the burden of belief in any concepts. Please enter the silence of contemplation.
