Many of us have issues with our past. We try and come to terms with it and yet fail to understand how.

Have you ever noticed that the mind can understand the present only if it does not compare, and judge? The desire to alter or condemn the present without understanding it gives continuance to the past. Only in comprehending the reflection of the past in the mirror of the present, without distortion, is there renewal.

If we have lived an experience fully, completely, we find  that it leaves no traces behind. It is only the incomplete experiences that leave their mark, giving continuity to self-identified memory. We consider the present as a means to an end, so the present loses its immense significance. The present is the eternal, and that is what we must realise.

As each experience arises i guess we need to live it out as fully and deeply as possible; think it out, feel it out extensively and profoundly; be aware of its pain and pleasure, of our judgments and identifications. Only when experience is completed is there a renewal. We must be capable of living the four seasons in a day; to be keenly aware, to experience, to understand and be free of the gatherings of each day. 

And if only it were so easy............