Everything Is Just Memories

Before a westerner can begin study of eastern concepts such as non-duality, they must first learn to think like an easterner, but that is the crucial step which is ignored and thus keeps people stuck in their current position, because they are trying to learn something without knowing how to learn it, which is to say that they still live with opinions which are memories of what certain words mean, which filter all the information and thus taint it rather than being able to take the information in its pure state and gain it's subtle meaning. The words may be understood, but we only learn them on the surface which means we do not grasp the subtle meaning. Words are just sounds that we identify in our memory as to what that sounds means. Thinking is reviewing what just happened in your memory. Many of our pains and pleasures are felt when we think about, or associate the current moment, to an event that happened in the past, thus a memory. Thus we are never truly 'in the moment,' we are always living in the past or imagining the future based on past experiences.

The idea is to be fully aware at all times that you are living in your imagination of separation, and you may eventually realize that it is all in your own mind and thus within your power to change. We may think that they are not memories and that they are the current situation which we are concerned with, but in fact, if you are right here right now, you would not know about the problems that are troubling you. The point of accepting this as normal is to bring us closer to understanding the cause of our pain so that we may end our suffering and enjoy a positive life. This is the same problem with acts of repentance done without understanding the real problem and necessary cure. The problem is that if you take the concepts alone, and build them in your imagination without true and complete understanding, it is replacing one drug with another while the illness of conscious sleep persists. First we must understand how the eastern mind works in order to understand eastern concepts as they are intended to be understood. Before anyone can learn anything, we must first put the mechanism of learning in good order.

The meditations or other practices which temporarily take your mind off the memories and put it on some other journey in your imagination, are only a temporary distraction but not a cure. When you are actively focusing on some single point on your body or an item in front of you or your breath, any single point of focus, you are no longer in your memories because you are fully in the object of your meditation. I am not saying we are all suicidal, but it is reasonable for anyone at some point in their life to contemplate ending it. Let us look at the negative end of the scale of life. And so repenting for your sins through certain actions is really the act of creating new and fresh memories to replace the older and negative ones. Some people try to repent from their sins. This is why so many people never learn anything. That is why guided meditations which take the practitioner off on a dream make people feel so good because they take you away from your memories.

Everything we are, meaning our reactions to situations, thoughts and emotions, is all based on our memories. This is why we are often just that split second behind perfect reactions and decisions. This is why we miss out on life, we are never actually here! We must learn how the mind works, what a memory really is, and that we do not live here but rather live there. There are many schools of non-duality and unity. The reason to commit suicide or desire death is essentially to erase all memories because the memories are too painful. When you repent for your sins, you undertake certain actions to compensate for those things which you feel you did are wrong. What you actually do is create new memories of good things that you can be proud of to replace the memories of those things which you regret. When we go to sleep, the memories of all the things that trouble us do not occupy our conscious mind, and so death is basically a nice deep sleep were you no longer have to deal with your memories.