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  1. Sep 2017
  2. foun09856fa2017.courses.bucknell.edu foun09856fa2017.courses.bucknell.edu
    1. P ho to gr ap h t he p r e se n t as i f o ne were a camera, including oneself in the present taking the pho, tograph, and your response to this process

      live in the present and reflect on your actions as they happen so later you won't dwell on them

    2. Because one is not there concretely one is not necessarily vulnerable. One avoids complete identification with the self that was, and hence is able to observe

      to go back and become free from the past one must be vulnerable and this is hard for people to do

    3. we aim at freedom from t h e p a s t , f r e e d o m i n t h e p r e s e n t . S u c h o b j e c t i v e s r e q u i r e entrance into the past as .a first step.

      we must learn how to forget the past and be free from it in order to truly be present in the now

    4. In all likelihood one is in the past while in the present. The present is then veiled; the past is manifest and apparent,

      people are always thinking about the past and this ruins the present

    5. While we say it cannot be h e l d a cc o u n t ab l e fo r t h e p r e se n t , t h e e x t e n t to wh i c h i t i s i g n o r ed i s p r o b ab l y t h e e x t e n t it d o e s ac co u n t f o r wh a t i s

      while the past doesn't effect the present if we ignore it and make the same mistakes it will

    6. We left the problem initially because we could not solve it on the conceptual level wher e we were at first.

      we come back to problems and revisit them once we have more knowledge or understanding

    7. the Self and its evolution and education

      it is important to see how we grow in relation to our education and what we learn about the world and ourselves