Collaborated with Krishnamurti

26-9

Only consciousness

In fact, there is only one state, not two states like consciousness and unconsciousness; There is only one state of existence, which is consciousness, although you can divide it into consciousness and unconsciousness. But that consciousness always belongs to the past, never to the present; You are only aware of things that have ended. Aren’t you also aware of what I want to convey next? You only understand moments later. You have never been aware or aware of the present. Observe your own mind and thoughts, and you will find consciousness operates between past and future, and the present is merely a passage from the past to the future……

If you observe how your mind operates, you will find that moving toward the past and future is a process that does not exist in the present. The past is either a means to escape the present, which may be unpleasant; or the future is a hope far removed from the present. So the mind is occupied by the past or future while ignoring the present…… It either condemns and rejects facts, or accepts and identifies with facts. Such a mind clearly cannot regard any fact as fact. That is, our state of consciousness is conditioned by the past and thoughts, a conditioned response to challenges to facts; The more you respond according to beliefs and past conditioned reflexes, the stronger the past becomes.

The reinforcement of the past is clearly the continuity of itself, which is called the future. This is the state of our mind and consciousness—a pendulum swinging back and forth between past and future.

只有意識

事實上只有一種狀態，不是像意識與無意識那樣的兩種狀態;只有一種存在狀態，那就是意識。雖然可以將其分為有意識與無意識。但那個意識永遠屬於過去，從不屬於現在。你只意識到那些已經過去並結束的事物。你不也意識到我接下來想傳達的意思嗎？你在片刻後才明白。你從未意識到或意識到當下。觀察你們自己的心靈與思想，你會發現意識是在過去與未來之間運作，而現在只是過去通往未來的通道……。

如果你觀察自己的心智運作，你會發現往過去和未來是一個過程，這過程不在現在。過去要麼是在逃避面對現在，可能令人不快，未來卻是遠離當下的希望。心智被過去或未來佔據，只因忽視現在……。它要麼譴責並拒絕事實，要麼接受並認同現存的事實。這樣的心思意念。顯然是被過往的思維限制，從而無法接受眼前的事實。也就是說，對過往的意識逾是堅持，便逾不能擺脫過往的影響。

過去被強化顯然是自身被持續下來的結果，若把過往稱之為未來。心靈就在這樣的意識狀態下，像鐘擺一樣，在過去與未來之間來回擺動。

很能表白今日大多數人的狀況，在過去和將來之間，迷失了今日的自己。

註：插圖Ms Fong