I can imagine life as a flow from future through the present to the past. The immediate future is, within an instant, the past. In the process I hardly notice the present. But the present is actually noticed immediately after it is passed to the past invariably as the memory of the last moment. This is so because of the lack of attention. If attention, the focused awareness, is on the present, then things are different. Then the present is a continuous stream.
My awareness is like a magnetic head of a tape recorder or the laser head of a CD player that detects, becomes aware of what is instantly passing before it, as the sound track or video track passes from the future to the past
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