05-08-2011, 12:00 AM
Past, future, present---these are glosses (to use a term that CC used in the intro to one of his books, I think) that influence our every moment. They're not easy to recognize but this morning I was pondering being 'in the moment' and realized how many millions of people live in the gloss of the future.
Specifically relating this to the path of perception: seems that CC presented the path in a future orientation, too, not just himself as the bumbling sorcerer. Embedded in his syntax and POV was that he would "arrive" at a later date and the down side of that perspective was that the date was never NOW, never in the moment.
Not to rag on CC though---I wonder how many of us do the same thing? It's such an easy thing to do--always looking at what we want to achieve, what we're aiming for, what we're working towards. There's such a secondary gain to viewing the world this way! It means we never quite arrive so we can't be fully responsible for what's happening to us in the current moment. It's a dangling carrot in front of our noses.
Sometimes I wonder whether or not the whole concept of "hope" isn't the same thing---an illusion firmly embedded into a future orientation. To hope for something pushes whatever it is we hope for into the future and prevents us from taking hold of the moment.
Ramblings on the beach this morning.....
Specifically relating this to the path of perception: seems that CC presented the path in a future orientation, too, not just himself as the bumbling sorcerer. Embedded in his syntax and POV was that he would "arrive" at a later date and the down side of that perspective was that the date was never NOW, never in the moment.
Not to rag on CC though---I wonder how many of us do the same thing? It's such an easy thing to do--always looking at what we want to achieve, what we're aiming for, what we're working towards. There's such a secondary gain to viewing the world this way! It means we never quite arrive so we can't be fully responsible for what's happening to us in the current moment. It's a dangling carrot in front of our noses.
Sometimes I wonder whether or not the whole concept of "hope" isn't the same thing---an illusion firmly embedded into a future orientation. To hope for something pushes whatever it is we hope for into the future and prevents us from taking hold of the moment.
Ramblings on the beach this morning.....