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I don't know how I am / have / do.
I only know that I am / have / do NOW, and I am fulfilled.
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you might be right, and some major religions back you up. i would say that there's also a case that staying focused on the NOW leads to shortsightedness, and a lack of motivation for possible future events. also, historical causes and conditions and sources of wisdom will not be addressed. it's an east vs. west thing. that's the world, nowadays. i'd say the postmodern stuff is a development of the eastern attitude, with western modern anxiety mixed in.
of course, if you're on drugs, you're too overwhelmed to think of anything BUT the moment, so your options are limited. but i'm an anti-drug type so don't listen to me if i'm being fascist or whatever. perhaps it was just me that was too overwhelmed...
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sorry, hsg, that was rather out of line of me. whatever philosophy works for you is obviously working for you. i'm just a little bitter about some about faces my psyche seems to pull on me. oh, well, what can i do? realizations don't ever seem to grip into anything stable. but if they work for you, you're probably fine. i just find some of it unfathomable. and, psychedelic type trippy stuff (not that i did a lot of it) may very well have ruined me, so i get a little pissy.
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I take no offense and wish you well.
The one command
is a paper someone recently gave to me. I've had occasional anxiety attacks years ago- the reminder to be present has helped. Its use isn't to be escapist as in the denial of a past or future. I have found though that when the nature of mind takes one into a worry it is that it's worrying about a nonexistent future or a past that's porbably not fully understood anyway. The problem is that in states of intense anxiety or worry or preoccupation the mind has the capacity to delude iself into thinking that all those would-be practical plans or liabilities in he future or painful memories are actually happening now- of course they are not. It is the misassessment of what is hapening now that seems to be the problem.
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seems like you and i have had almost opposite trials, tribulations, experiences -- however you want to put that.
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