How to Let Go of Memories and Open Up the Future – 4

(Continued from last time)

Know the Real “Now” and Use Your Consciousness Consciously

Well then, let’s continue.

We got as far as: “Memory is stored data that consciousness uses, and it is by no means the true body of a human being itself. So take that to heart and can see memory and yourself as separate.”

Based on what we’ve said so far, close your eyes and look back over the way the people of Earth have lived, from above.

How is it?

Could you understand, down to your bones, how much the humans of Earth have been jerked around by memories stuck to the physical body and have become unable to see the true form of life?

Now, here’s the main subject.

The most basic thing for letting go of memories and opening up a bright future is to know the real “now” and to use your own consciousness consciously.

That you cannot do that is the biggest reason the people of Earth have repeated an unhappy history for thousands and tens of thousands of years.

So then the question is, “What is the real now?”

People who have listened to our talks again and again can already picture clearly what is the real now and what isn’t, but in case you can’t, let’s look back at it once more here.

The real now is what you’re thinking about “the various words, deeds, and phenomena of humanity” that look as if they’re happening right now.

And what isn’t the real now is “the past you had mistaken for now”: what happened at such-and-such an hour, minute, and second, what someone said to you, what you did.

Just as the Seeds You Sow Always Bloom or Bear Fruit

The words and deeds of humanity and the various phenomena unfolding in the physical world are, so to speak, like “a movie you watch in a movie theater.”

What’s projected on the screen then is footage from film shot at some point in the past, right?

You watch it knowing it isn’t happening in real time, right?

But humans can’t think that way about the world they sense with their five senses, and they think, “It’s terrible right now,” “I was treated badly just now,” “There’s an earthquake right now,” “It’s snowing heavily right now,” “There’s a fire somewhere right now,” “There was a traffic accident in front of the station just now.”

I’ll say it as many times as it takes: “that now” you think of as now is not the real now.

It’s footage that humanity created through causes and effects from past lives up to the present.

In reality, it’s the past.

Why does the past appear now, you ask?

Yes, that’s a good question.

It’s because every destiny is formed by the accumulation of humanity’s past thoughts, words, and deeds.

It’s just like sowing the seeds of a plant: once they’re given the nourishment of sun and water, flowers bloom and fruit grows.

Every thought, word, and deed that humanity sends out in this very moment is the seed that creates Earth’s future.

Do you understand?

Everything happening in “this time right now that the hands of the clock are pointing to,” which you think of as now, is the figure of seeds sown in the past blooming and bearing fruit.

(To be continued)