dave_a_mbs
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Hi Marta-
Yes, we are slaves to the past. We do whatever we do, and acquire information by which we are led to make choices, and thus we step, each day, into the unknown. And, as K (a Hindu, since even his Theosophy was ultimately Kashmir Saivism) would tell us, since all reality is but a dream flitting trhrough the mind of Brahman, we are entrained in the dream world and its logical evolution.
But of Brahman, the Dreamer, there is the past, crystallized into historical immobility, and from the past the inferences about this and that. But the next instant of the future remains undefined, unuttered in the silence of nearly infinite potentiality. From this, and in accordance with the best analysis available, Brahman selects the next instant, and the heartbeat of the cosmos moves forward one tick.
Each of us, a manifestation of God, created in the image of God as a spirit with choice, act as the arms and legs of Brahman. Thus, Marta, when you are acting as a person, you are limited in a deterministic world of immediate circumstances. But when you recognize that you are God, and act as a manifestation of God, you are at the forefront of reality, in undefined and undetermined space. Your choise moves the entire cosmos forward into the unknown. Interestingly, this is also how it feels when we figure somethitng out and make a choice.
The moral is that we are bound only to the degree that we seek to be material beings, and we are free to the degree that we allow ourselves to be transcendent. That, incidently, was Krishnamurti's essential message. You can find more of the same in Nisargadatta's book, I Am That, available from the Vedanta bookstore in LA, among other places.
dave
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