“I’m going to speak in common, everyday terms about your fantasies: how you live your life
\nand what gets in the way.” In this way, John-Roger begins a core teaching seminar which
\nhighlights a way we avoid being present in our lives.<\/p>\n
“As a child, we start building the references of who we’re going to become in our life,” J-R
\nsays. “You see, as we’re making pictures in our mind about what we think is going on, we’re not
\ncoming present. If you don’t come present in this moment, you miss the past and you miss the
\nfuture, because you base your life upon the old reference point. If you’re going to continue on
\nlike you have been all your life up to this point, there’s no need for wishing or hoping for anything
\nmore than what you’re getting today because what you’re getting today is exactly what you’ve
\nbeen putting in motion all your life.”<\/p>\n
J-R, as always, uses many stories and personal experiences of his family (disagreement with his
\nolder brother), school (argument with a teacher about grades) and life as a teacher himself, to
\nillustrate his theme and to point toward a solution. He tells a particularly moving story about an
\nestranged couple who consulted him a long time after the tragic death of their child. J-R shows
\nthem that they both had been carrying around the image of the dead child and their role in that
\ndeath. J-R told them, “You can’t go back. All you can do is bring everything to the present and
\nupdate the experience. I’m not saying to get rid of the experience, but what I’m suggesting is
\nthat you update your inner picture and behavior patterns to make them more mature with what
\nyou are presently doing so you can be happier now with what you got.”<\/p>\n
God Bless You!<\/p>\n
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