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Andy Puddicombe har skrevet boken "Get some headspace". Han har tilbrakt ti år som en buddistisk munk og vet hva han snakker om. Her er noen ord av gull fra denne kloke mannen.

Many people look to the future for change, but if you look a bit deeper, it quickly becomes apparent that anything in the mind relating to the future is nothing but an idea, an image or a projection. So, as long as this idea remains in the future, there is nothing you can do to change it, as it has yet to happen. Other people may look to the past for change, to see what it is they did wrong, why they are left feeling a certain way, analyzing and conceptualizing their situation. But the past has already happened, has already finished, so all we are really doing when we replay these stories in the mind is creating the conditions for these same thoughts and feelings to continue.

In order to create a genuine shift in the way we feel, in our perspective, the way we actually experience life on an everyday basis, it is essential that we look not to the past or the future, but instead to the present moment. Change happens in the here and now. How could it possibly happen anywhere else? Nothing else exists! When we learn how to be present, how to be aware of each and every moment, resting effortlessly in the ups and downs of life, then, and only then, can real change begin to take place. This is what it means to rest in the natural essence of mind. It is an experience rather than an idea and it is only by engaging with it, that we see the benefits.