Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
Will Rogers
Can't every quote of the day apply in some way to the teaching/ learning which is actually the learning/teaching I do here? This one certainly can.
Just a few entries ago, I spoke about the need to get away from the human attachment to time as a linear process...and to see the eternity in each moment we are in so we can "live" today. I also often speak of samskaras. Aren't samskaras all about allowing yesterday to take up too much of our day? Isn't that stored and stuffed stuff responsible for how yesterday prevents us from truly having the felt experience of today? Is this simple yet sage advice from Will Rogers something an enlightened yogi might say, or the Buddha might have taught? It is, at least, something we should all remember.
We need to let go of our attachment to yesterday, our samskaras that create this idea of "me"based on a past story. We need to stop being so attached to this "history" which is nothing more than a story we tell ourselves and others. If we want to be free to experience the "felt experience" of Life we need to let go our yesterday focus...and live here and now. We cannot let yesterday take up too much of our days.
All is well
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