Men, Pokemon and Cosmic Knowledge

No excess baggage; we are flying on a very, very low price airline, air samsara. You are allowed 10 grams of luggage and anything more costs you alot. You imagine how much baggage you are carrying in your life, hopes, fears, regret, doubt, uncertainty, provenance. All of that is a burden. Inside the structure of dualistic consciousness it looks like a stream of information which will help me make my decision but it's a decision made based on the past. The past is gone, we cannot go into the past, it's not a place. The past is the echo of the here and now. The basis of the dzogchen practice is if you stay fully in the here and now, what occurs is self occuring, it just arises and then it vanishes by itself. It goes cleanly away. No trace. But the more I think about something it kind of rubs a groove into the structure, the thought becomes thickened with emotion and linkage which of course veils the here and now