At the moment we are reading "The Power of Now" and struggling with it. What is this now? Why and how is it important?
Semantic fields
There are some key terms that overlap. Mentalisation, reflective space, mindfulness and maybe Tolle's now.
At the moment we are reading "The Power of Now" and struggling with it. What is this now? Why and how is it important?
At the moment we are reading "The Power of Now" and struggling with it. What is this now? Why and how is it important?
The struggle is about semantic meanings. Strawberry fields? A field of strawberries or a metaphor for something remembered?
ReplyDeleteFor Tolle, unconscious means unaware, not present, not conscious in the now, not having an internal watcher; and conscious seems to mean having an aware presence or watcher which transmutes the noise of the egoic mind into a study of the essence.
His egoic mind is the problem; always occupied with past and future, with the pain body(pp 36/7) and noise of the past, and anxieties about the future. With externals. Not the music of time, but the destructive noise of the mechanics of mind.