For starters, we all already can. If we confidently feel that the sun shall rise tomorrow morning then that is predicting the future.
Seeing the future is all about understanding how things change – from what, into what. That is all it is.
So why can’t we do it all the time?
It’s because we have got it into our heads that we are all imperfect, vulnerable beings that need certain things to happen in the future. We think we can’t be well or happy unless things that we lack come our way.
We see these amazing things come to other people, we look at the sequence of events that led to the success andwe think we can replicate them. We think that we can simply lift the ingredients out of that person’s unique circumstances and apply them to ourselves.
This is magical thinking, pure and simple. But these kind of illusions fill our head. We spend 99.97% of our mental energy on trying to orchestrate outcomes that were never going to happen and don’t even need to happen.
But there’s something even more tragic…
Every now and then we imagine something amazing and desirable. And this time, we are right, it really will come our way. The dream job, the love our lives, really are our destiny and ours for the taking. We all know this feeling.
But because we think that we are the aforementioned individuals with our own wills, we don’t realise that it’s OK to be passive We totally ignore the fact that we just need to be patient, that the time isn’t quite right yet. We don’t believe that time itself will help us a lending hand. So we rush blindly on, cause upset and strife…and end up delaying what is rightfully ours.
So we needlessly chase what we won’t ever get. And then we push away what was almost ours already.
This is human suffering in a nutshell.
So how do we know what great stuff will really be ours? How do we see the difference?
You can’t know, not logically – the solution, as always, is spiritual. All you can do is have the confidence to know that what you really want and desire, you already have. Through meditation and prayer you must get to know the serene self that is pretty much OK whatever happens. When you get to know this inner guy, you are in a position to discern the following:
If you want something really badly but you see that it will cause others or yourself pain or anxiety…then the time is not right.
You have a vision for the future, but others do not share it. If they shared it, your plans wouldn’t cause them pain.For to have pain and anxiety is to fear the future. And we only fear the future when we are unable to predict it.
You don’t know who is the better prophet, you or they. Have you divined something they can't see? or can they not see, it because it is just you chasing fantasies that aren't going to happen?
So you must sit right back, and what for time to show you. One of two things will happen:
1) Your desire will remain constant and adverse circumstances will change in your favour.
2) Adverse circumstances will remain constant and your desire will fade away until you are adjusted to them.
Either of these processes brings you peace. The peace that comes when your desires and reality are no longer in discord.
Repeat this for as many times as you need to, after a while your erroneous inauthentic desires for the future will cease. Each time you learn to lean back and rely on your serene inner self, you strengthen him and weaken the fearful guy who imagines things wrongly.
From now on, the only thoughts you have about the future will be what will actually happen.
Now you can see the future!
