Q: What is the past?

The past is not a place that generated the present moment; rather, the past is a narrative generated by the present moment. Materialist frameworks view reality as a long, continuous timeline where the present is merely the sum of everything that has already happened. Inverting that model—establishing the absolute present as the only reality, and the past as a localized cognitive rendering within it—alters the relationship to time, causality, and suffering. This inversion removes the weight of a causal past and anchors existence firmly in the spontaneous, dynamic, and ever-present reality of awareness. ●