Graditude for All That Brought Us to This Point - 8th August 2016

The question before that, but when and how do we acquire this so-called ability of even looking back at what has happened and sort of going over it and trying to just crystallize it in a way that is okay with our own self? In my general... because many times we struggle, we want to keep going through something and finally put it in a way that is not shame, doesn't show us in a very shameful light. So when does this ability come in?

This you will have when you feel gratitude for what is here now. See, let me explain that to you. You have also seen that every single thing in this realm is interconnected. So everything that happened in our life has brought us to this point now, yeah? And because of things like the butterfly effect or whatever you call them, you know that if one instant was different, then this moment might not have been at all. You see? So if there is so much gratitude for this now, then really we lose the ability to resent what was in the past. You see? Now, if our attempt instead is to look back and to say that, 'No, no, I was right then,' that does not help. You see? If the attempt is to justify what was done in the past, then that doesn't help. It can only be that we see that there is so much gratitude for this that is here now. But when we look back into the world situations, we are grateful that all of that happened in our life because it must be all of that story which led to this chapter of the story which is now, or this page of the story which is now.

Just in a slightly different analogy, you were talking about the five-year-old. Like, for them, they are completely anchored in the moment and I don't know if they look back on... I just, I simply wanted to know, like, when does this ability kick in? It's one of the aspects of the mind, so I look back here, yeah?

Okay, yes, yes. So if you look at a five-year-old, he can be more 'Zen-ful' than a two-year-old, isn't it? Or feel more guilty than a two-year-old. So what happens is many people have studied this, and Master also said it's about two and a half when we start believing these mental replicas, these thoughts and these images. So, two and a half, and then progressively it grows. Before that, it's almost like you have a memory of a fish, although even that is... people saying that that is a myth, but it's a nice myth, which is that a fish doesn't remember more than three seconds. It's just something happened, somebody shouted at you, three seconds later, the memory of a fish. Children seem to be like that. They can't remember what happened, or at least they don't hold on to what happened a few seconds ago. It's gone.

They do, but they don't have the tools to... yeah, whatever it is on for some time. It's simply the gathering of installations and then sort of act it out dynamically as they have grown up.