Scientology Blog » present time http://scientologistblog.com/blog Frank speaks about Scientology, in it's independent form, away from the David Miscavige and Celebrity version... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Is Modern Life a Scam? http://scientologistblog.com/blog/is-modern-life-a-scam/ http://scientologistblog.com/blog/is-modern-life-a-scam/#comments Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:22:38 +0000 frank http://scientologistblog.com/blog/is-modern-life-a-scam/ Around about the same time that I got into Scientology I was also reading a Zen Buddhism book by Alan Watts called “The Way of Zen”. And a great mental shift occurred from my study. I realized that I was at that time NOT living very much in the moment, and as a result I was not having as fulfilling a time as in other periods of my life when I was more in “present time”…

So what causes one to no longer live in the moment? Or in present time?

Well, the answer is that one is for some reason stuck in the past and/or is projecting into the future, on a compulsive basis. And the reasons for this are; past goals, past traumas, past unresolved problems, future goals, future pleasures, future solutions, to name a few…

It’s often said a picture is worth a thousand words, and I feel that this video animation visually depicting the wisdom of Alan Watts explains very accurately, and in a very entertaining way, exactly how and why people get, what I would describe as brainwashed, into a very unfulfilled life from an early age and throughout their lives…

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