{"id":197,"date":"2025-07-22T05:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T05:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.co.za\/?p=197"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:32:02","slug":"les-7-ek-sien-slegs-die-verlede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hemelbewus.org\/en\/les-7-ek-sien-slegs-die-verlede\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 7 - I see only the past."},"content":{"rendered":"

1. This idea is particularly difficult to believe at first. 2<\/sup>Yet it is the rationale for all of the preceding ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3<\/sup>It is the reason why nothing that you see means anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4<\/sup>It is the reason why you have given everything you see all the meaning that it has for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                              5<\/sup>It is the reason why you do not understand anything you see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6<\/sup>It is the reason why your thoughts do not mean anything, and why they are like the things you see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7<\/sup>It is the reason why you are never upset for the reason you think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8<\/sup>It is the reason why you are upset because you see something that is not there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Old ideas about time are very difficult to change, because everything you believe is rooted in time, and depends on your not learning these new ideas about it. 2<\/sup>Yet that is precisely why you need new ideas about time. 3<\/sup>This first time idea is not really so strange as it may sound at first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Look at a cup, for example. 2<\/sup>Do you see a cup, or are you merely reviewing your past experiences of picking up a cup, being thirsty, drinking from a cup, feeling the rim of a cup against your lips, having breakfast and so on? 3<\/sup>Are not your aesthetic reactions to the cup, too, based on past experiences? 4<\/sup>How else would you know whether or not this kind of cup will break if you drop it? 5<\/sup>What do you know about this cup except what you learned in the past? 6<\/sup>You would have no idea what this cup is, except for your past learning. 7<\/sup>Do you, then, really see it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Look about you. 2<\/sup>This is equally true of whatever you look at. 3<\/sup>Acknowledge this by applying the idea for today indiscriminately to whatever catches your eye. 4<\/sup>For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a05<\/sup>I see only the past in this pencil.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              6<\/sup>I see only the past in this shoe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              7<\/sup>I see only the past in this hand.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              8<\/sup>I see only the past in that body.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              9<\/sup>I see only the past in that face.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Do not linger over any one thing in particular, but remember to omit nothing specifically. 2<\/sup>Glance briefly at each subject, and then move on to the next. 3<\/sup>Three or four practice periods, each to last a minute or so, will be enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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