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Bhaskar’s concept of ‘present-moment awareness’

Summarised on pg 127 of Jamie Morgan’s extremely useful review article:

In the first instance, as a singularized embodied entity the individual is nowhere but where they are, doing what they are doing, at the very time that they are doing it. As such, the human tendency to dwell on the past, or to look to the future (where one is replayed and the other simulated as diversions rather than as a focussed process of reflexively constructing present action), or speculate on what one could be doing instead of what one is/should be doing, are seen by Bhaskar as errors of heteronomy (the unnecessary multiple baggage of thought) that ‘block’ or ‘split’ effective agency (MR1, pp. 97–8). In this sense, being in one’s ground state means the disciplined focus of one’s intentionality on the present. He refers to this as ‘present-moment awareness’ (MR1, p. 19), which forms the first prerequisite for right-action.

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