Key to Center of Universe

SR No.: 006912
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany
Total Pages: 202
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Tattvartha Sutra
File Size: 15 MB

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HERMANN KUHN
SUTRAS
as well while we observe an event. That we are mostly unaware of this is simply because we never put our attention on this comprehensive aspect of the present and the immense potential insight it offers us.
In the Western hemisphere we focus mainly on the fleeting aspect of the present. We see time as a line that comes from an infinite past and runs into an equally infinite future. In these seemingly gigantic masses of past and future the present takes up such a minute point, it seems almost a miracle that we perceive it at all.
Yet this again is only a concept. It is only our very idea of time that produces this devaluation of the present. We arbitrarily take that part of the present we feel familiar with and define it as 'the past'. We take our expectations and hopes and define it as 'the future'. The little that remains we either assign to the present or discard it because we don't know where to put it. It is only this concept that makes us regard past and future as so important and domineering that we allow them to overshadow major sections of our present.58
We forget that only the present can give us access to everything. We neglect that behind its characteristic fleetingness we also perceive all the 'invisible' influences that led to the manifestation of a specific event or form in the first place.
58 We even define ourselves on the basis of our past. We take bygone ex
periences and project them into our future. We regard events as inevitable only because we are familiar with the way they happened in the past and because we want to believe that they would do the same in the future.
The statement e.g. 'I am unhappy (now)' describes a negative experience in the present. The experience might be over in a second. Yet how often do we feel 'I will continue to be unhappy in all future' though we do not know the future and though all our circumstances may change at any moment.