Past Influenced Present

For many, the past has way too much influence on what is done in the present. Until the past influences are identified, they will continue their control and make the present a thing of the past…

Understanding that truly living life in the present as opposed to living it by bringing past influences into the present is the difference in being at peace or being controlled by the conditioned past. When you’re with what’s here in the present you’re with true reality, not an influenced past present reality. When there isn’t the reality of the present, there’s the influenced state of the past, which makes for very little if any peace in your life. 

Reality occurs in the present so that means if you’re reading this post, that’s reality. There’s nothing else going on beyond what’s happening right now. There may be something going on between your ears, but that’s the influenced present state of the past; the bottom line is it’s not the reality of what’s truly occurring presently. The mind has been conditioned to think it has to create a life from a past pleasure, this is what keeps you from truly living life.

I’m not sure why this is, but I do know it has to do with the influences beyond your control. To me what matters is to develop a disciplined method of sitting which allows you to break free of the control of these past influences. Control is control so the more you continue to be controlled by the past influences, the less present reality there will be. Unless you live with the reality of what’s occurring presently and learn how to identify the past influences, it will be impossible to ever be free because you’ll remain under the spell of your past pleasures…