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Whenever one beings a meditative
practice and/or one explores their inner world it is inevitable that
something from the past will surface to be faced. Of course, if
something surfaces and stands in the way of what we you desire to
create, we will have to face it and deal with whatever it is
requiring us to do. The past does, and will, interfere with whatever
we desire to create. The only question is, “How will it interfere?”
Sometime the past will interfere in very big and profound ways and
other times it will seem to have no relevance. The questions is, “Is
there a need to explore the past and if so, how much?” Dealing with
what surfaces as it surfaces is one thing but is there the need to
explore beyond what surfaces spontaneously.
Whether we are willing to accept it or not, and/or believe it or
not, we live in a cause-effect world. There is a cause (“why this
and not that?”) to everything we experience (an effect) and the
cause always lies in the past. There are many schools of thought on
the past and its importance. They range on one extreme from the view
that none of the past matters and one is fully capable of creating
whatever they desire in the moment. In this view, the past is “water
under the bridge” and one only needs to become fully aware of what
exists here and now. Hence in every moment the need for mindfulness
and awareness.
The other extreme is the past is of tremendous importance almost to
the point that all is predestined. In this view we need to go back
and examine and explore all facets of our past at every level to
understand how we became who we think we are. If we do not
understand how we become who we think we are we cannot change the
past ,or at least understand currents the past is causing. If we do
not understand the currents in our lives we are condemned to relive
the past again and again. We will simply continue forever and ever
on a proverbial wheel of
karma. Only when we recognize that we are stuck in a cycle is
there any hope of breaking the cycle. In many ways both views are
wrong and both are correct.
Ideally we should find
true freedom and become like the wind, free and unattached.
Coming with nothing and leaving with nothing. However, humans,
although like the wind in that we are the result of a flow of
energy, we are not the wind. We are who we are. We are the effect of
some prior cause and flowing from somewhere to somewhere. Although
we are an infinite energy much like the wind, we are conscious and
have a
free will. That free will allows us to choose one direction over
another. We are not stuck and we are not condemned to flow according
to a given flow path. We can change the path, whole or in part,
simply by how we choose to exercise our free will. We are fully
capable of binding and locking our energy into fixed flow patterns
by holding memories of the past and preferences for one way over
another. Or, we are free to let go of the past and be like the wind
simply flowing from one point to another neither of which is good or
bad.
Rather than looking negatively at these aspects (we are within an
existing flow pattern determined by the past), we need to look at
them positively. That is we have the power to release the past and
change the flow. To do this, it needs to be understood that what we
experience, no matter what it is, is caused by something prior to
the experience we have. What we experience is the effect of some
cause.
It is hard to accept that the cause ultimately is what we think and
believe and the choices we have made because of what we think and
believe. It is hard to accept because we seem to have such little
control over the external world. However, unless we realize that we
are experiencing the effect of the cause of our own thinking, we
continue in the same cause effect chain. This is not necessarily bad
if we are enjoying what we experience and are creating
a life worth living. However, if what we experience
no longer serves us, we need to change the cause or create a new
cause. We do that by understanding the past and understanding why we
have come to think and believe the way we do.
What we need to realize is that the work or performance of an actor,
musician or artist in the moment is the sum total of all their
practice lessons and past performances. That is, each of those past
lessons and/or performances are contributing to the totality of the
individual’s performance or work. In the same way we are the sum
total of all who we have been. In any one moment each of us are only
performing based on all we have learned and experienced. We
literally are the past manifested. All that we carry from the past,
whether that be past lives or any other past experience, are only
the gifts and/or liabilities that assist us in what we need to do in
the present moment.
Alternatively said, we have practiced a part in the past and now it
is time for our performance based on those past experiences. If we
are not performing to the satisfaction we desire, we may need to go
back and understand either 1) what we did not properly learn from
our past experiences or 2) what needs to be relearned in a
different, more effective manner because, in may ways, we and the
world we experience has evolved. What was learned in the past is not
longer applicable or it is at least different in some way from what
we needed to know in the past.
It cannot be understated that we are our past manifested. The cause
of who and what we are now is the past we have experienced and how
we have interpreted that past. We only need to return to the past
when it does not allow us to go grow and expand the understanding of
exactly who and what you are. We only need to go back when it does
not allow us to create the reality and experiences that we
consciously choose and serve us in the way we wish to be served. If
we do need to return to the past, we will need to understand there
will be work that needs to be done.
Sometime what needs to be addressed surfaces spontaneously and comes
after us. More often than not, some unknown factor keeps interfering
with what we desire to create. Often the work of exploring the past
is like digging a mine into the deepest regions of our subconscious
to extract the gem we seek and bring it back to the surface. Most
probably, but not necessarily, the work is in the form of a pain to
be faced and experienced, Yet it is only the pain that has cause
some type of separation within your being that will have to be
rejoined so you can return to a wholeness of being.
Our past, in part, is only the story we tell. There is a real part
and an imaginary part to any experience we have. The story we tell
may, or may not, reflect events as they happened. However, it really
doesn’t matter what story we tell for it is rare that we can, or
will be able to, express all sides to an event in our life.
The point is rather that the story you tell should be told in a way
that empowers you to create the experiences that severs you in a way
that is most beneficial for the being that we think and believe we
are. We are free to tell whatever story we wish. We only need to
understand if our story allows us to grow and expand, discovering
and exploring the true depth and breath of our own being. Or, does
the story we tell confines us and limits us to
a cage of our own making. That is, a cage of what we think and
believe as opposed to that truth of what is. Each of us are free to
live in a cage or fly and soar in an unlimited sky. The choice is,
was, and always will be, ours to make.
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