1. There’s no such thing as a previous thought or a previous experience for that matter.

2. You can’t experience a previous sensation. There’s only the sensation arising now. You can seemingly remember an allegedly past sensation–but that’s something I’ll come to shortly.

3. Likewise, you can’t experience a previous thought. You can seemingly have a memory-thought about some other thought–but, again, I’ll come to that below.

4. What’s been said so far as, in fact, radical: your experience–a thought, a feeling, a sensation, or a perception–is arising now. It’s never arising then or hence. Never. It’s just not possible.

5. Then why does it seem as if past experience is accessible? Due to the illusion of memory.

6. A memory-thought arises and says, “That was a very painful sensation.” Or: “Do you remember that trip to Lake Tahoe?”

7. But when is that memory-thought arising? Now. And can it actually refer to some sensation or to some sight? No.

8. So, there’s only the current experience arising now. You cannot legitimately say that there is a past experience or a future experience. This is the truth of 1. above.

9. But then there’s not even the current experience arising now, since “current” implies that memory is legitimate (i.e., that there exists “current” as well as “non-current”).

10. Then there’s experience arising now.

11. But can it legitimately be said that experience has the label “arising” attached to it? No.

12. So, there’s experience now.

13. But experience now is just another name for awareness.

14. So, in truth, there’s awareness. Period.