[Jyotir]

Originally Posted by inavalan

It may sound like heresy to some, but "living in the present" seems to me inflicting a "numbing of the mind". Could this be a / the reason for which we incarnated here? It doesn't seem likely. Some gurus call for "taming of the mind", but I believe that they miss the point, and a more likely purpose is "training of the mind". We need to get better at creating reality, not at idling our creativity.

It's the mind that artificially divides up reality - lives regretfully and retrospectively in the past attached to past experience - thus killing the present.

Its the mind that based on those attachments, expects and demands the fulfillment of desires from the future, killing the present.

There are superior faculties in human beings that are the real sources of creativity.

~ J