Tim - memory, retention and the world

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Hi Tim --

 

Makes sense ...

And dimly yet clearly I see

something beyond

disinterest and nonattachment

(which each imply something

actually there which one loses

interest in or attachment to) ...

 

This " something beyond " , which

neither has anything to be interested

in or disinterested in,

is right where any memory is strictly

an arising as " now " ...

 

The impression that memory image refers to

something, that it reveals

anything other than " now " , is

purely illusion ...

 

I may be saying almost the same thing

you said, just want to note that

there is a kind of effortless

loss of illusion as the Real

(i.e., the " now " of " singularity " )

alone is Real --

 

<laughing> As if communicating

this Real could be real, or

could ever *not* be real ...

 

There is nothing pointing away from

" now " , thus, nothing that can

point to " now " --

 

The illusion of memory seems to

be " as if real " when there is

the groundless impression

of " retention " -- depending entirely

on an assumed entity who could be

" holding " and " bringing with " ...

 

So, the illusion isn't so much " the past "

or " memory " in and of itself, but

the sense of " retention " ...

 

What are the seven deadly sins, or the Buddhist

" mind-poisons " related to " self " other

than

different ways there are attempts to

" retain " -- as if there could be

an entity that retains and brings with?

 

Turns out " now " is all there is,

isn't at all the idea named " now " ,

has no real divisions into past,

present and future, and is playing

a kind of game, which we've referred

to as a movie, and has also been

called a dream.

 

Waking up is only a dream event

in which the dream sense of " retention "

drops away...

 

What is beyond dream events obviously

can't meaningfully be addressed by

dream characters trading

concepts on the internet,

using " retained meanings " to

make sense of words ...

 

Yet, it's fun to be talking like

this ;-)

 

Namaste,

Dan

 

 

 

 

 

Hi Dan,

 

It's all nostalgia... what's the difference between " 20 years

ago "

and " five minutes ago? "

 

That's why many of the sages (and 'myself') put an emphasis on such

things as " unattachment, " " desirelessness " and

" aloofness "

or " disinterest. "

 

The less interesting " the world " (which consists entirely of

past

remembrances), the more the 'essential Now' (devoid of past, present

 

and future) tends to " reveal itself " in the absence of

distractions.

 

Love,

 

Tim