END THE DELUSION OF TIME
IT SEEMS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO DISIDENTIFY FROM THE MIND. WE ARE ALL IMMERSED IN IT. HOW DO YOU TEACH A FISH TO FLY?
HERE IS THE KEY. END THE DELUSION OF TIME. TIME AND MIND ARE INSEPARABLE. REMOVE TIME FROM THE MIND AND IT STOPS - UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO USE IT.
TO BE IDENTIFIED WITH YOUR MIND IS TO BE TRAPPED IN TIME. THE COMPULSION TO LIVE ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH MEMORY AND ANTICIPATION. THIS CREATES AN ENDLESS PREOCCUPATION WITH PAST AND FUTURE AND AN UNWILLINGNESS TO HONOR AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE PRESENT MOMENT AND ALLOW IT TO BE THE COMPULSION ARISES BECAUSE THE PAST GIVES YOU AN IDENTIFY AND THE FUTURE HOLDS THE PROMISES OF SALVATION, OF FULLFILLMENT IN WHATEVER FORM. BOTH ARE ILLUSIONS.
BUT WITHOUT A SENSE OF TIME, HOW WOULD WE FUNCTION IN THIS WORLD? THERE WOULD BE NO GOALS TO STRIVE TOWARD ANYMORE. I WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM, BECAUSE MY PAST MAKES ME WHO I AM TODAY. I THINK TIME IS SOMETHING VERY PRECIOUS, AND WE NEED TO LEARN OT USE IT WISELY RATHER THAN WASTE IT.
TIME ISN'T PRECIOUS AT ALL, IT IS AN ILLUSION. WHAT YOU PERCEIVE AS PRECIOUS IS NOT TIME BUT ONE POINT THAT IS OUT OF TIME. THE NOW. THAT IS PRECIOUS INDEED. THE MORE YOU ARE FOCUSED ON TIME - PAST AND FUTURE - THE MORE YOU MISS THE NOW. THE MOST PRECIOUS THING THERE IS.
WHY IS IT THE MOST PRECIOUS THING? FIRSTLY, BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY THING. IT'S ALL THERE IS. THE ETERNAL PRESENT IS THE SPACE WITHIN WHICH YOUR WHOLE LIFE UNFOLDS, THE ONE FACTOR THAT REMAINS CONSTANT. LIFE IS NOW. THERE WAS NEVER A TIME WHEN YOUR LIFE WAS NOT NOW, NOR WILL THERE EVER BE. SECONDLY, THE NOW IS THE ONLY POINT THAT CAN TAKE YOU BEYOND THE LIMITED CONFINES OF THE MIND. IT IS YOUR ONLY POINT OF ACCESS INTO THE TIMELESS AND FORMLESS REALM OF BEING.
NOTHING EXISTS OUTSIDE
THE NOW
AREN'T PAST AND FUTURE JUST AS REAL, SOMETIMES EVEN MORE REAL, THEN THAT PRESENT, AFTER ALL, THE PAST DETERMINES WHO ARE, AS WELL AS HOW WE PERCEIVE AND BEHAVE IN THE PRESENT. AND OUR FUTURE GOALS DETERMINE WHICH ACTIONS WE TAKE IN THE PRESENT.
YOU HAVEN'T YET GRASPED THE ESSENCE OF WHAT I AM SAYING BECAUSE YOU ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT MENTALLY. THE MIND CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS. ONLY YOU CAN. PLEASE JUST LISTEN.
HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED, DONE, THOUGHT, OR FELT ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE NOW? DO YOU THINK YOU EVER WILL? IS IT POSSIBLE FOR ANYTHING TO HAPPEN OR BE OUTSIDE THE NOW? THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS , IS IT NOT?
NOTHING EVER HAPPENED IN THE PAST, IT HAPPENED IN THE NOW.
NOTHING WILL EVER HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE, IT WILL HAPPEN IN THE NOW. WHAT YOU THINK OF AS THE PAST IS A MEMORY TRACE, STORED IN THE MIND, OF A FORMER NOW. WHEN YOU REMEMBER THE PAST, STORED IN THE MIND, OF A FORMER NOW. WHEN YOU REMEMBER, THE PAST, YOU REACTIVATE A MEMORY TRACE - AND YOU DO SO NOW. THE FUTURE IS AN IMAGINED NOW, A PROJECTION OF THE MIND. WHEN THE FUTURE COMES , IT COMES AS THE NOW. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE, YOU DO IT NOW. PAST AND FUTURE OBVIOUSLY HAVE NO REALITY OF THEIR OWN. JUST AS THE MOON HAS NO LIGHT OF ITS OWN, BUT CAN ONLY REFLECT THE LIGHT OF THE SUN, SO ARE PAST AND FUTURE ONLY PALE REFLECTIONS OF THE LIGHT. POWER, AND REALITY OF THE ETERNAL PRESENT. THEIR REALITY IS "BORROWED" FROM THE NOW.
THE ESSENCE OF WHAT I AM SAYING HERE CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE MIND. THE MOMENT YOU GRASP IT, THERE IS A SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS FROM MIND TO BEING. FROM TIME TO PRESENCE. SUDDENLY, EVERYTHING FEELS ALIVE, RADIATES ENERGY, EMANATES BEING.
WHY SHOULD WE BE
ADDICTED TO THINKING?
BECAUSE YOU ARE IDENTIFIED WITH IT, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU DERIVE YOUR SENSE OF SELF FROM THE CONTENT AND ACTIVITY OF YOUR MIND. BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU WOULD CEASE TO BE IF YOU STOPPED THINKING.AS YOU GROW UP, YOU FORM A MENTAL IMAGE OF WHO YOU ARE, BASED ON YOUR PERSONAL AND CULTURAL CONDITIONING. WE MAY CALL THIS PHANTOM SELF THE EGO IT CONSISTS OF MIND ACTIVITY AND CAN ONLY BE KEPT GOING THROUGH CONSTANT THINKING. THE TERM EGO MEANS DIFFERENT THINGS TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE, BUT WHEN I USE IT HERE IT MEANS A FALSE SEFL, CREATED BY UNCONSCIOUS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MIND.
TO THE EGO, THE PRESENT MOMENT HARDLY EXISTS. ONLY PAST AND FUTURE ARE CONSIDERED IMPORTANT. THIS TOTAL REVERSAL OF THE TRUTH ACCOUNTS FOR THE FACT THAT IN THE EGO MODE THE MIND IS SO DYSFUNCTIONAL. IT IS ALWAYS CONCERNED WITH KEEPING THE PAST ALIVE, BECAUSE WITHOUT IT - WHO ARE YOU? IT CONSTANTLY PROJECTS ITSELF INTO THE FUTURE TO ENSURE ITS CONTINUED SURVIVAL AND TO SEEK SOME KIND OF RELEASE OR FULLFILLMENT THERE. IT SAYS, "ONE DAY, WHEN THIS, THAT, OR THE OTHER HAPPENS, I AM GOING GO BE OKAY, HAPPY, AT PEACE.". EVEN WHEN THE EGO SEEMS TO BE CONCERNED WITH THE PRESENT, IT IS NOT THE PRESENT THAT IT SEES. IT MISPERCEIVES IT COMPLETELY BECAUSE IT LOOKS AT IT THROUGH THE EYES OF THE PAST. OR IT REDUCES THE PRESENT TO A MEANS TO AN END, AND END THAT ALWAYS LIES IN THE MIND-PROJECTED FUTURE. OBSERVE YOUR MIND AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS IS HOW IT WORKS.
THE PRESENT MOMENT HOLDS THE KEY TO LIBERATION. BUT YOU CANNOT FIND THE PRESENT MOMENT AS LONG AS YOU ARE YOUR MIND.
