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问：但是，相信未来会比现在好不一定是一种幻象。现在的情况可能很可怕，很糟糕，但事情在未来可能变得更美好，并且情况通常是这样。 答：一般来说，未来是过去的复制品。表面的变化是有可能发生的，但是真正的变化却很少发生，这主要依赖于你是否能充分地保持临在，并通过汲取当下的力量来解决过去的事情。你对未来的看法是你当下时刻意识状态不可分的一部分，如果你的思维背负着过去的沉重负担，未来你将会体验更多的相同负担。由于缺乏临在，过去会侵入你的头脑。就在当下时刻的意识的质量影响着你的未来，而未来，当然只能在当下里经历。 你可能会赢得千万美元的大奖，但是这种变化是非常肤浅的。你只不过会在更为奢侈的环境中，继续地展望你从小被制约的行为模式。人类已经掌握了核技术，以前用木棒只能杀死十个或二十个人，而现在只要一个人按一下按钮就能杀死一百万人。这是真正的变化吗？ 如果决定未来的是你在当下时刻的意识质量，那么决定你意识质量的东西又是什么呢？是你临在的程度，所以能够真正发生变化以及瓦解过去的唯一地方，就是当下。 NEGATIVITY AND SUFFERING HAVE THEIR ROOTS IN TIME But the belief that the future will be better than the present is not always an illusion. The present can be dreadful, and things can get better in the future, and often they do. Usually, the future is a replica of the past. Superficial changes are possible, but real transformation is rare and depends upon whether you can become present enough to dissolve the past by accessing the power of the Now. What you perceive as future is an intrinsic part of your state of consciousness now. If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future — which, of course, can only be experienced as the Now. You may win $10 million, but that kind of change is no more than skin deep. You would simply continue to act out the same conditioned patterns in more luxurious surroundings. Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change? If it is the quality of your consciousness at this moment that determines the future, then what is it that determines the quality of your consciousness? Your degree of presence. So the only place where true change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now. |
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