Technique for staying in the present

[AskingQuestions105]

I just came up with this technique, but I think its a really good one. It's called:

"If there were no past..."

 

The meat:

We are always either seeking something or wanting to get rid of something, which ends up taking us away from the present moment, and creates much affiliation and emotional bondage to the object at hand.

 

Let's say if a desire comes up, such as masturbation: Simply say to yourself and contemplate in a sense "If there were no past..."

 

You may be feeling tons of sexual desire, and it leads you to an emotional decision. But when you say "If there were no past...", you begin to think about how, if you had never watched porn, masturbated, or even knew of such outlets, then that leads you to directly experiencing the sensations as it is in the present moment. You now see them as merely just sensations arising. 

 

If you take the mindset of there never have been a past experience, then the past no longer has any control over you or your emotions, and you can more easily just watch observantly and objectively the sensations at hand and thus realize impermanence, not-self, and unsatisfactoryness a lot easier, especially for the things that trigger an emotional response rather quickly.

 

You can do this for anything, including fear, unpleasantness, etc, even happiness. You merely just take away the past and look at it as if you've never had an experience of that nature before, which also helps to take away impulsive actions and the proliferation effect.

[allislove]

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[Hen Zuhe]

@AskingQuestions105 Great,,, Yes of Course... staying in the present is living Now. with an Alert state, No thinking. It i wonderfull.

We can cure progressive our mental illness about the past. YES THATS RIGHT.

Greetings.

NAMASTE.