tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905353746465795170.post3382393924687284978..comments2023-10-08T06:44:53.898-07:00Comments on Life As I Know It: Here Is NowCrystalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05391203924962106246noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905353746465795170.post-15277635811927966232010-11-25T15:03:51.454-08:002010-11-25T15:03:51.454-08:00I agree completely, coming to terms with the reali...I agree completely, coming to terms with the reality of what has happened and will happen is far easier than letting go of the 'should have/could have's of the past and the potential 'could happen's. By dwelling on what might have been we are allowing our focus to drift from the reality of the present moment to the multiverse of illusionary futures and pasts. The NOW is all that exists, everything else is just illusionary 'stuff' clouding our view of this fact; thus as we learn to live in the moment the excess baggage of the past and the future falls away, disappearing like so much smoke in the wind. <br /><br />And here we find the true meaning of the words 'easier said than done :)Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05391203924962106246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905353746465795170.post-34483005736906823302010-11-24T16:43:30.856-08:002010-11-24T16:43:30.856-08:00It has been my experience that the actual past and...It has been my experience that the actual past and actual future are much easier to let go than is the illusory potentiality of past and the potentiality of future (also possibly illusory). Modal worries and angst plague me far more than actuality. But this, I suppose is why it is so hard to let the past go and not to worry about the future. Mr. Mick dying I can come to terms with, but it was his potential to live that I can't get past. Not being accepted to any graduate programs in the future I can handle, but it is the potential of being accepted to some in the face of none whatsoever that is bothersome. It seems that each concept we must 'get past' is laden with myriad potential concepts of which the first concept (about actuality) is borne out.<br /><br />Thus, if the Buddhists are correct, and *our* reality is one of conceptual nature (i.e. *like* an illusion) then is not actuality borne out of potentiality? And is not potentiality nothing? This, I think is what grabs us - this thing of which we cannot even conceive. And focusing on what we deem 'actual' makes it even the more difficult.Jorgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18133229144297568448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5905353746465795170.post-22351206273997080872010-11-24T16:37:13.753-08:002010-11-24T16:37:13.753-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jorgenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18133229144297568448noreply@blogger.com