My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
So today the focus is
taking a moment,
to allow the idea
that the reason
I
perceive only the past, the reason that I'm addicted to the past,
the reason that I have been locked in
unreality,
or stuck
dreaming
is because
of the belief
that the thoughts I think I think are real thoughts.
But
in
authenticity I notice that
the stream of thoughts
that are moving through consciousness,
are
really just thinking about the past and thinking about the future.
So it's past future thinking,
that is where the preoccupation occurs.
It's past future thinking
that is the addiction and that is what we must notice today.
To
pull our focus away from
the images of the world
and
come to an admission that,
ah,
I have a thought problem going on here.
It can be tempting to think about people when
things, emotions, situations,
but,
those are all just projections
of the thoughts that are passing through consciousness.
So there's no point in
remaining so focused on effects when
we are being told that
these erroneous thoughts about the past and the future
are
causing
or
projecting
the world of images that seems to be there.
We are told the one thought,
the one wholly
true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not there.
And so we could say the one wholly true thought we can hold about the world is that it is not there.
And you see this
sets your mind
on a very helpful direction
of paying attention
to the thoughts that you think you think,
from a reminder, from a context, of they aren't reality.
The past is gone.
The future past is an imagination as well, and is gone.
We're being convinced by the Holy Spirit that what is to come is already over.
And think how that would
change your outlook.
Think how that would change your,
your efforting.
If
you had a glimmer
of an experience that what is to come is already past.
And that the past is over.
You may have a hint of how this relates to peace of mind because
why would you
retain
future goals
if you had an awareness that the future was already over?
You start to see how
ridiculous and
silly future goals are.
How ridiculous ambition is.
Always egoic, always about a personal self and
attainable so-called future goals that will make things much better.
Ego wants you to hold on to these thoughts of past and future,
because that's the only way that the ego can be perpetuated in the illusion of self based in time,
can only be perpetuated if you
keep giving your mind over to that future, it's not there in that past, that is gone.
So,
in our reading from the text today we learned that the atonement is the correction, it's the
only so-called defense we'll say that works.
That can't be used destructively.
It's not a double-edged sword.
It's the only thing that will work.
It's the Gateway to eternity.
And while
the sleeping mind believes in time then
the atonement,
the correction to this false belief in time
is really the only
thing worthy of your mind.
You could wake up every day
with that one word in your mind-
Atonement.
Not future goals, not what will I do today, not thinking about
what happened last night or what happened last week,
that's the same old same old
versions of past future thinking that keep the mind from joy, from
true happiness and peace.
So the focus is atonement or correction.
That could be a mantra, if you want a mantra:
"Let me accept the correction,
for the belief in time and space, the belief that I've separated from
my source, my Creator.
Let me accept the correction."
And today's lesson,
"my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts" is just a reminder again of
causation.
That,
it's the thoughts
that crossed consciousness. It's the thoughts that I think I'm actually thinking that are
causing the world that I seem to see. And when I
see the impossibility of these thoughts, I see the
impossibility of causing such a world.
We can't stop with thinking that we're just causing the world but we have to admit it. We have to
come to a moment of
stark,
clear,
unprotected
admission of this
set up.
Before we can laugh and let it go.
And come fully into our holiness.
Which could never be concerned with such a foolish imagining,
such silliness.
So join me in this today,
join me just in accepting the admission
that will begin to free the mind.
And what is that admission?
"My mind is preoccupied with
past thoughts."