Dec 1, 2016
#ego #thePresent #theFuture #thePast #worrying #awareness #thoughts #egoAtWork #payingAttentionToThePresent #mindfulness #meditation #zenmister #zenwords If you are worrying about the future, or worrying about the past, that is your ego building itself up. The ego is what holds on to the past and projects itself into the future. Your ego thinks of ways that it will be hurt, or has been hurt, and it alerts you to this danger with worry. In the present, there is just your awareness of what is happening. If you watch for your ego and for the present moment, eventually your ego will contract and the present will expand. Someday you may only have the present. Until then, pay attention to both.