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Imagine your craving now. Imagining fulfilling it. Living it out in full viscerality. You will be awe-struck at how unthirsty you now are. You have done it a million (or one) time before, and a million times again. You have bankrupted your past, and it no longer appeals to you.
To murder the future: Imagine all possible futures. Imagine the one you must accomplish. Project forward your default–probably future in the next 15 minutes, two hours, the whole day. Where you’ll be next month, in six months, 3 years from now. You almost surely have a guess.
Project forward this future and ask yourself: Is this really worth it? Imagine all of the future. The graduation, the dates, the promotions, the vacations. The grandkids, the highs, the lows, it all. And ask yourself: Is that still worth it?
If you find the answer is no, you have successfully murdered the future. You are free to go do something else now. Your life was literally not worth living. Beautiful, surely, like the first 3 movies of Star Wars, but not worth continuing beyond.
When you kill the past, bankrupt all your cravings, and murder the future, and all your barrellings, you are left with nothing and with looseness. All tightness is gone. Repeat as much as necessary. Kill all pasts. Murder all futures.
Live it now. Let the future ripple into now. https://t.co/ITJSr8pgVq
Everything you ever want is already here in the present. Imagine the adventures you hope for, the spouse, the really good life. At the end of it . . . you are at the end of it, in this moment. Everything you ever want, every craving and need, is in timeline.
Smile, notice, observe in this timeline. Everything you possibly want is found in this internal resolution. Afterward, you’ll still live life, and it will still be joyful, but there won’t be the delision your life and its actions has anything to do with that internal resolution.
When I get to doing what I imagined done May I do it with joy If I get to it and find it died along the way May I go find what instead is alive Nothing matters except what is in this moment Not because the future is unimportant Because the now is timeless
Worry in the present, fret in the present Reminisce in the present, regret in the present Whatever I do, may I do in the present The future is here now, I be with it in this moment https://t.co/pP32GDuN8I
When worried about what to do, with 5 different people to spend the night with, it’s possible to spend the night with all of them and with yourself not once at all. https://t.co/c1vRKk6c0N
When you live all possible futures, imagine the full dates in detail, you see the future too is empty. In that way, it becomes not worth it to leave the present. You perceive this so clearly your mind travels back to the present by itself. https://t.co/xrLwTewD3y
From there, the grasp on the present doing is so loose that whatever needs to happen happens joyfully and spontaneously happens, in accordance with what feels best, with far less grip. https://t.co/0aOoMNYZ0y