They mean, see the present as it is.
Be aware of what is really there --
"right here and right now."
Respond to what is actually there. Do not respond to the environment as if it was your own memory replaying itself. Do not reenact previous experiences in your life by using this present moment as actors and stage props.
You must always remember and think about the past experiences you have had.
You must always remember the things that you have learned.
You must always think about the future life that you work towards
You must always think about the future environment and Universe that will unfold
You must always be aware of your present surroundings.
This is like music which exists in the present but replays the past and works towards the future, following a script that is familiar and yet still surprising enough to be beautiful.To advocate forgetting, or not thinking about the past, is to promote the destruction of the personality and the denial of basic human nature. What are we other than the past experiences we have had? If we had no memory, we would not be fully human. We would not really be human at all, but just some strange type of cyborg, or android. We need our memories -- ALL our memories -- the good and the bad -- to be fully, and completely, human.
What we need to learn to do is to let the memories be memories and always be aware of where we are in the here and now at the same time. And if we do not like where we are in the here and now, we can work to move to a better future. But we will never get to a better future if we do not know where we came from or have no memories of the past at all.
To advocate forgetting is to advocate the death of the mind and the death of the person. To advocate forgetting is paramount to a crime against humanity itself.
copyright (c) 2017
William Schaeffer
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