Conditional Reality

What is your default setting? How do you experience reality when you are just in yourself and there's not something pulling you away from that? You might be surprised. Even what we tend to think of as "reality" or just the way things are is most often totally affected by our past. We don't know it though, because we never think to question what has always been there.

For example, I recently realized that my default setting is that something is missing; something that I need isn't there. As I saw this more clearly, I recognized that it was an habitual state of mind that I developed as an infant, when I was left alone for too long. In fact, I was right. Something was missing--the present. I was experiencing present time through past mind-set. The exploration continues.