The Past Appears Only To Exist In The Present
What do we mean by “the past?” What exactly is being referred to?
Isn’t it a “memory” of some past experience, or a memory of what you’ve been taught in school ? (which is a memory of a memory)
Upon immediate inspection it appears that all “pasts” occur only as memories, and memories are only ever “recalled” right now in the present.
Therefore it would appear that the past really only exists in the present.
And upon further inspection, it would also appear that the future also can only exist in the present because the “future” is the “imagining” of some scenario that might be. And how exactly do we construct the idea about the future? Isn’t it usually some thought of the form “someday I will have ‘X’…”, or “someday I will not have ‘X’….” So it is based on a projection based on some idea, or ideal that has been formed by the past.
So if future is based on the past, and the past can only exist in the present, then the future also only exists in the present.
Therefore, all time is now and there can be no such thing as “psychological becoming” because that requires psychological time, which is made up of the notions of “past” and “future.”
Therefore all change can only occur right now.
Is any of this true?
Please look to see if you can see what is being pointed to here for yourself. Observe like a scientist, impartially. If you’re partial to something other than what it is you’re observing while you’re observing, then you’re probably not really observing, and if you’re not observing then you have no chance of “seeing” and then really changing.
