There Is Only Consciousness There is in fact only one stat , not two states such as the conscious and the unconscious ; there is only a state of being , which is consciousness ,though you may divide it as the conscious and the unconscious . But that consciousness is always of the past , never of the present ; you are conscious only of things that are over . You are conscious of what I am trying to convey the second afterwards , are you not ? You understand it a moment later . You are never conscious or aware of the now . Watch your own hearts and minds and you will see that consciousness is functioning between the past and the future and that the present is merely a passage of the past to the future .... If you watch your own mind at work , you will see that the movement to the past and to the future is a process in which the present is not . Either the past is a means of escape from the present , which may be unpleasant , or the future is a hope away from the present . So the mind is occupied with the past or with the future and sloughs off the present....It either condemns and rejects the fact or accepts and identifies itself with the fact . Such a mind is obviously not capable of seeing any fact as a fact . That is , our state of consciousness , which is conditioned by the past and our thought , is the conditioned response to the challenge of a fact ; the more you respond according to the conditioning of belief , of the past , the more there is strengthening of the past . That strengthening of the past is obviously the continuity of itself , which it calls the future . So that is the state of our mind , of our consciousness---a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards between the past and the future ...
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:12:39 +0000
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