Such a tendency we have to make judgments — I used to think I wasn’t making judgments, but I dug a little deeper and realized I was making tons of judgments. Constantly catching myself as well

Thanks so much Goddess Aphrodite for sharing your views.

Also your point about the future being a ‘projected past’ is excellent. It’s something I’ve been contemplating for a while, but haven’t been able to grasp. Past and future are actually not true opposites, in the sense the future is kind of a fuzzy projection based on specific past events we or others have gone through.

Thanks so much for sharing these two excellent points Matthew.

if the past has an opposite I would say it is the present.

additionally I would say that the thoughts of the future are really just a projected past. We take thoughts and experiences that we have had or see others experiences and project those as “our future”.

The ‘peace’ I refer to is the ‘feeling of peace’ — the sensations of calm, relaxation, comfort, and ease, ultimately still limited by time-space.

The ‘peace’ you refer to is the ‘transcendental quality’ itself. This cannot be captured in words, though still demands a label for practical communication.

The problem with many spiritual teachers and teachings is they do not delineate these two very different understandings of peace. Thus, what happens is many meditators assume that being chill, relaxed, calm, or tension-free is equivalent to transcendence, when in fact they aren’t related.

I will update my post to reflect this clarification, as well as write a follow up post at some point on double-meanings / double-understandings.. As for your reflections on conflict, and choice, I also agree with your insightful perspectives. I’ll be sure to write something about these topics in the days ahead.

Ranjeeth Thunga
@pov_mapper