Letting Go Of The Past

It’s obvious that the past no longer exists, but its effects are still felt. This moment that we live in now will, in the future, be the past, and so won’t exist, but its effects will. That is karma at work. To a materialist historian, the past is all important as it serves as our memories, traditions, cultures … our habitual way of thinking. This is the mud we enlightened beings are stuck in.

A materialist is someone who supports the theory that nothing exists 
except matter and its movements and modifications.

Most of us are stuck in a mindset. This is why there’s no talking to people because they cannot be in the present moment as they are in constant conflict with what’s happening now and memories.

The only reality is right here, right now, in no man’s land, in pure cognisance. Letting go isn’t about being told to let go; that is merely a temporary antidote. Letting go is about seeing whatever we’re holding on to and feeling the effects: anger, frustration, fear – all mental dis-orders – and letting go is the shock of realising this.

Our karma is the effect of our mind dwelling on the past. Our mind is just memories that we impose on to every occasion, where we go through our predictable routine while thinking it’s all new when it’s all old.

The temptation to hold on to pessimism is like attachment to an abusive master, 
thinking it’s safer while, in reality, such behaviour only leads to cyclic misery.

Better to realise the freedom of optimism 
– that seeing evil is the best of all possible worlds. 

Good ultimately prevails over evil in the universe. 
How?
Appearances and recognition are simultaneous.
We are free in the moment of just seeing.
If we don’t let go, we are evil’s enablers, gossipers, idle talkers about others.

Letting go is letting go of depression, anxiety, pointlessness …
In the moment now, where is this depression, anxiety, pointlessness … ?