We’re all making unconscious choices in our lives based on our minds evolutionary inclination to make predictions for us. “This is where we were attacked last year”, “If you go into rushing water over the knee, it’ll take you downstream”, “she’ll fuck your boyfriend” and on and on, all the time, without end.
These predictions are a result of our own unique wiring, our trauma, and our environments both past and present. If you think about it … In a way, the future has already been scripted so what choices are we actually making?
The Zen practitioner says “none and also…” By examining the mind and actively working to cultivate an awareness of the present (in all its innocence and beauty), we can forgive the often painful educations we’ve been granted, thank the Universe for our gifts, and move forward not from the same ol’ doomsday programming but from clarity and soul.
Good luck to us all.