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Demolition of the past is a chapter in the Natural Path
we know as ‘mind’ disappears and along with that the ‘experiencing and witnessing entity referred to as the ‘I’’ also vanishes being another thought construct. Serious and repeated contemplation of the implication of the imperience of ‘nothingness’ helps in the thinning out of the ‘I’ and our getting freed from its ‘illusory dominance’ over our thought processes, feelings and actions. We also realize progressively that ‘past’ and ‘future’ are created by the activity of the ‘mind’ and when it ceases they also collapse.
The ‘tense’ past or present makes us ‘tense’! and ‘time’, the root of ‘tense’, is also a notion at best, though having certainly great utilitarian value in the planning and organization of our life and its varied activities mundane and spiritual. But according to many discerning thinkers of the past and present it does not have any fundamental and existential significance.
In fact for the one who has the good fortune of being well established in the condition of ‘nothingness’, time as experienced by those conditioned by the ‘past’ and the ‘future’, that is those under the spell of the ‘mind’, does not exist; by the same token one cannot get established in that state unless the ‘demolition of the past’ has occurred in him as the first step.
Generally it is believed that the ‘past’ influences the ‘present’ which in turn is said to influence the ‘future’. This is the causal connection. As we are conscious beings endowed with ability to experience pain as well as pleasure and also have the faculty of memory, we form the vasanas and ruchi and keep the memory of the same relating to the varied experiences. This taste and memory of taste either positive or negative generate the desires pushing us ever into the never ending cycle of action-reaction that is samsara. Hence, ‘demolition of past’ should in effect mean that our present is
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