How to Let Go of Memories and Open Up the Future – 5 (The Last Post of the Year)

(Continued from last time)

Know the Real Now and Take Part in Building a Sustainable Society

Here’s a question.

Why do you think you’ve been mistaking the past for now?

You don’t know? You can’t put it into words right away?

Yes, that is exactly the state of confusing memory with present consciousness.

I said, “Memory is nothing more than data from the past,” didn’t I?

People who are truly convinced of that can see memory and themselves as separate.

For people who aren’t convinced, don’t worry: as you keep repeating that familiar phrase with feeling, as if marveling, “The me I thought was me wasn’t the real me after all,” you’ll naturally can see them as separate.

And to say more precisely that memory is nothing more than data from the past: it’s “nothing more than past facts distorted through the filter of the ego.”

It isn’t the truth of this very moment.

The truth of this very moment is what you think, what you say, and how you act in response to various phenomena and the movements of humanity, right?

The real now refers only to the movements of your own consciousness at each moment.

That alone is the real now.

The consciousness that truly takes that to heart is the consciousness one dimension higher that I always talk about.

As long as you know the real now like that and put it to use, humanity can reflect on its past mistaken actions in an instant and create a truly sustainable world.

Spreading “the culture of mottainai (not wasting), which originated in Japan,” promoting the reuse of goods and materials, energy policies that don’t use carbon: all of these are important efforts. On top of them, only when a change in the way people’s hearts are is added will Earth’s destiny truly be sustained.

Think about it carefully.

In addition to making good rules and spreading them, if humanity’s habits of thought change, we won’t have to repeat the same path.

What matters is that each and every person in humanity holds in their hands the fundamental measure that leads to a root solution.

The idea that “someone will do it anyway, so I don’t need to do anything” is out of the question, but it would be wonderful if each person awakened the eyes of their heart and came to take part in building a better star.

Wake from the Dream, Act, Accomplish, and Come into Being

Now, it’s time to sum up.

The time you think of as “now” with your thoughts is like “time inside a dream” that you see while you’re asleep.

Many people on Earth still have hearts that are dozing.

That means they aren’t looking at the world with the eye of the heart open.

What’s needed now is to see the world not with the physical eye but with the eye of the heart, and to update (reform) every habit.

When you look deeply into fixing habits, you come to see that it’s precisely “the patterns of reaction that are unconscious reflexes” that must be overwritten, right?

The key to opening that eye of the heart is found by those who have truly taken this to heart.

If someone thinks, “Isn’t it fine to stay the way things are?”, “There’s no need to change anything, is there?”, “No, no, it’s better that nothing changes,” it may take that person a little longer to wake from the dream, and they may continue learning somewhere else.

But even that is walking the path of evolution, so it’s not as if it’s no good for that to happen.

In the end, what to choose, how to decide, and which path to take are left to each person’s decisions and actions.

And what matters when looking at yourself and others is this: “No matter how wrong a path someone seems to be walking, it’s all the figure of that person walking the path that is necessary and inevitable for them, so there’s no need whatsoever to see it as a problem.”

There’s only one thing you need to do: see divinity in every single being, go through the process of practicing taking it for granted, and eventually live in a world where only divinity is natural.

As long as you live that way, what you do with a lofty will is sure to be accomplished, and you’ll go on giving birth to and bringing forth a new self.

That’s the story of your future that unfolds beyond letting go of memories.

One last word.

Don’t think of letting go of memories as something difficult.

Once you understand that it’s merely data, you can naturally see it objectively, and looking down on it with a bird’s-eye view will come naturally too.

Because for you, it’s already only a matter of time.

(The End)