2 Bad

Bricks
 Your
2 Bad Bricks

+ 998 Bricks attention is

powerful
focus exclusively
“The power to direct our
on the mistakes. attention has within it the
power to shape our brain’s
Is mistake a firing patterns, as well as the
power to shape the
problem? architecture of the brain
…Enriching your time here, once you itself.” Dr. Siegel
stop focusing on them exclusively.
JSD Topic 7
Time and the Mind
TIME
https://www.timeanddate.com
Name

Class/No

Date
CL0x / _____ (Not SID)
01 Dec, 2021

Age now Age of death

“My Story”
Assignment

A) ________days B)________days
How many days do you still have ??

____________________________
 TIME
What would you do?
0- 29200 days -80

0 80

18 22630 days remaining

6570 days
 TIME
0 18 21

0
21 = 7665 days
18 = 6570 days
1095 days remaining
 如果⼀⽣只有三⼗歲 If I will die in my 30.
If I will die in my 30 , I will drink coke as much as I want
If I will die in my 30 , I will not care about the bad weather
If I will die in my 30, I will not study till 20-ish
If I will die in my 30, I will say I love you without hesitation

I will not worry about saving money, I will go wherever I like

I will not have a hard beginner and wish for a good ending , I will get mad as long as I like

Buying an apartment is expensive, I will not care about it

When peers are saving money for wedding, I already have my funeral
If you are too manipulative, I will show you my middle nger
I am so exhausted, let’s talk when you visit my grave

If I will die in my 30 , I will not say so much non-sense

If I will die in my 30 , I will not scare if I smell stinky
If I will die in my 30 , perhaps I will be more hard working
If I will die in my 30 , I will tell my heart and will not pretend to be humbl

I will not scare of experiencing physical painfulness,

I recognise that I am experiencing painfulness everyday

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 TIME
NOW- ________ -12:00 midnight

NOW 12:00
 TIME

1 hour
(YOU KNOW
You don’t have a lot
of time)
How much time do we have… left?
‘People think they
have a lot of time…’

‘Mother nature is
fair; she gives
everyone the same
amount of time.’
 TIME
We believe that we still have a lot of time.

Past Future (How long?)

0 6570 days 29200 days 80

11680 days 50
18
How could we make good
use of our time ?
 (Eckhart Tolle – The Power Of Now)

We only exist in the present moment,

but our mind constantly goes wandering 遊蕩 in
the long gone past and an imaginary future !

How long is NOW?

What can you find in NOW?

 TIME
Your life

0 29200
The Now is days 80
The Now is
occupied by
occupied by ‘Past’
‘Future’
I regret that…
I worry that…

18 22630 days remaining

6570 days
 PAST FUTURE
Nothing ever happened Nothing will ever
in the past; it happened happen in the future, it
in the NOW…the past is will happen in the
a memory trace, stored
NOW...The future is an
in the mind, of a former
NOW. imagined NOW, a
When you remember the projection of the
past, you reactivate a mind. When the future
memory trace. comes, it comes as the
(Tolle, p.41) NOW.
(Tolle, p.41)

The mind creates TIME

Past/Future
Your mind talks
a lot about the
past and future. ‘You have probably come across “mad”
people in the street incessantly (不斷的)
talking or muttering (喃喃⾃語) to
themselves.
Well, that’s not much different from what
you and all other “normal” people do,
except that you don’t do it out loud.’
(Tolle)

Can you hear

the voice from
your mind?
Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/aug/21/
When？
science-little-voice-head-hearing-voices-inner-speech
‘Our left hemisphere thinks linearly and methodically. ‘To be identified with* your mind is to be
Our left hemisphere is all about the past and it's all about the
future. trapped in time...The more your are
Our left hemisphere is designed to take that enormous focused on time --- past and future --- the
collage of the present moment and start picking out details,
and more details about those details. It then categorizes and more you miss the Now, the most precious
organizes all that information, associates it with everything in
the past we've ever learned, and projects into the future all of thing there is.’ (Tolle, p.40)
our possibilities. And our left hemisphere thinks in
language. ’ * identified with --- 認為與…密切相關
(Jill B. Taylor, Neuroanatomist )
 Identification with your mind, which causes

Identification with
thought to become compulsive (難以抑制的).
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful
affliction (可怕的折磨), but we don't realize this
your mind because almost everybody is suffering from it, so
it is considered normal.
你不自覺地認同了你的頭腦, This incessant (沒完沒了的) mental noise
prevents you from finding that realm of inner
你相信你就是你的頭腦!
stillness that is inseparable from Being
(存在).

It also creates a false mind-made self (You)

that casts a shadow of fear and suffering.
(Tolle)

You Being
Inner voice Inner stillness
Mind Existence
(Me and my society) The most important part of self/
the state of existence

Past and Future Now

(Time) (No Time/No Past/Future)

Inner voice - Noisy Quiet - Inner stillness

Fear/Suffering Focused attention/Efficient
Problem:
“Problem” means that you are
dwelling on a situation mentally
without being a true intention or
possibility of taking action now and
that you are consciously making it
part of your sense of self…
When you create a problem, you
create more pain. All it takes is a
simple choice, a simple decision: no
matter what happens, I will create no
more pain for myself. (Tolle p.54)

Example:
1 ‘Working with Mary’ !
2 you hung up !
3 You wait for his call !
4 Pain…
Now is all that we have!