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Attention and time || Acharya Prashant (2013)
Acharya Prashant
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Attention
Memory
Time
Imagination
J. Krishnamurti
Meditation
Understanding
Consciousness
Description

Acharya Prashant explores the intricate relationship between attention, time, and memory. He challenges the common notion that attention means living in a 'now' isolated from the past and future. Instead, he describes attention as the crystallization of time, where the past, present, and future converge into a single point. In a disturbed mind, these dimensions are distant, creating space for imagination. However, in an attentive state, this distance reduces, and the future becomes seamlessly one with the present. He notes that our imaginations of the future are always derived from images of the past, and as the distance from an event increases, the mind gains more authority to project its own interpretations and imaginations onto it.