Vision quest 2010

Vision quest 2010


Questioning illusions is the first step in undoing them, but fear inhibits the tendency to question at all. The questioning mind perceives itself in time, and therefore looks for answers in the future. The fear that inhibits questioning is the fear that the future will be worse than the present.

The unquestioning mind is closed because it hopes the future will be the same as the present.

The fear that inhibits questioning is the fear of change.

Since perceptions change, their dependence on time is obvious. How you perceive at any given time determines what you do, and action must occur in time. When it is said that "now is the only time," the literal nature of this statement does not mean anything to the ego. At best, it is interpreted to mean "don’t worry about the future."

That is not what it really means at all.

The ego has a very strange notion of time, and it is with this notion that your questioning might well begin. The ego invests heavily in the past, and in the end believes that the past is the only aspect of time that is meaningful. This ensure the ego's continuity by making the future like the past, and thus avoiding the present. By the notion of paying for the past in the future the past becomes the determiner of the future, making them continuous without an intervening present.

The ego uses the present only as a brief transition to the future, in which it brings the past to the future by interpreting the present in past terms.

What for?

This is the question which you must learn to ask, in connection with everything your mind wishes to undertake. What is the purpose? When you make a decision of purpose, then, you have made a decision about your future effort, a decision which will remain in effect unless you change the decision.

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Tom Fox
Louisville, Kentucky

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