Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
brought out or discussed in Consciousness Is All, and interestingly
it's a point that is not emphasized a whole lot in nonduality. I
don't know why, but the nature of presence or Now-ness as we talk
about it, is not something between past and future. And here's
one, just one piece of it, that will expose a lot of it right away. What
is called a future if you look at it from presence, not as a thinker,
identifying as presence, just watching thoughts about what might
be called later this afternoon, or tomorrow. And there it is, there's
that thought. And one can see that all there is to that so-called
future really is just that thought; always your future is nothing
other than a speculative imagining, really. And there's this
insistence that it's going to show up at some later time but that's
only what it is assumed to be. And a “future” never has any status
other than that mere thought. And again, notice in your own,
maybe when our discussion is done here for those who are
listening, in your own quiet time; see if what's called “the future,”
has any other status than just a thought arising in the present
moment. That's all there is to it! And then you say, well, wait a
minute! That thought, the minute it has so-called arisen, it's
actually past.
WIZARD: It's past. Yes, it's history.
PETER DZIUBAN: It's history. So right there, there is no future.
There isn't. And so this thing, what we call for want of a better
way for needing to talk, what we call Now-ness, or presence, or
being, or the present, is not sandwiched in between two states,
because there never is anything ahead.
Another thing about that, I tried to do some more digging and
poking at that lately and a couple of things have come out, but it
feels like it is real juicy territory, and there's a lot more there. One
of them is that that thought which is assumed to be of a state lying
ahead, (which it isn't, it's already history, as we said), but because
it is assumed that it is lying ahead it's as if it is assumed that there
is this other state that is dictating to you as presence how your life
is going to be. And there's a tension there, because the nature of
presence is utter screaming freedom with no obligations, nothing
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