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Atonement is just "Sorry, I wasn't listening." The more you reason and follow a chain of thoughts, the more projected you are into the future and the further you are from the present moment.

In a typical "Man not listening to Woman's emotion" situation, the man spends most of the time projecting visions of the future and applied solutions rather than actually listening by receiving the emotional energy. All energy is spent in parsing the verbal syntax.

Atonement isn't about a logical error indicating poor technical proficiency but about being able to justify why you left the present moment. Why wasn't it good enough for you? Can you do better? What was soooo important that you just *had* to think about it?

Reason is a means to solve a problem. The more reasoning that's being done, the more "bad" the current situation is deemed. Reason even has a numbing/coping effect. Reasons always whisper "this could be better"https://twitter.com/a_yawning_cat/status/1345976682809675776?s=20 …

and that's true! if you think scientists stand on the shoulder of giants then you should see the giant thing the present moment stands on. it's called The Past & it's huuuge. the present moment is always supplying you with a way to make it better. for free!

So "life is suffering" to "that which reasons" because to reason tries to solve the suffering which is limitless. trying to drink the ocean gives you a tummy-ache.