I had a funny incident that happened as an insee-ing that was responsible to pull me out of space – time for at least a short while. This is how it happened.
The incident took place when I was casually gazing at a road roller that was standing in an open ground outside my house. In India there are what we called flats housed in a building and some open space is available for making it into a garden that can be used by the surrounding buildings as ‘their’ garden. This plot was still under development.
The following dialogs started in my mind as if there was someone else talking with me from far away.
Someone : Do you see a road roller there?
Me: Yes I see a road roller here.
What else do you see there?
Buildings, ground, road roller etc etc.
Are they all 'there'?
Yes, they all 'here'.
Are they there or are they here!
Even the 'there' is 'here'. There is no there and here. There is only here or not here or there or 'not there', seen or unseen.
Is ‘here’ is term of time or space?
It only means they are. But in terms of time they are ‘now’.
Here is basically falling into a category of space when used as here vs. there. However ‘here’ also means 'present' as compared to ‘not here’ or absent which is falling into the category of time.
The incident took place when I was casually gazing at a road roller that was standing in an open ground outside my house. In India there are what we called flats housed in a building and some open space is available for making it into a garden that can be used by the surrounding buildings as ‘their’ garden. This plot was still under development.
The following dialogs started in my mind as if there was someone else talking with me from far away.
Someone : Do you see a road roller there?
Me: Yes I see a road roller here.
What else do you see there?
Buildings, ground, road roller etc etc.
Are they all 'there'?
Yes, they all 'here'.
Are they there or are they here!
Even the 'there' is 'here'. There is no there and here. There is only here or not here or there or 'not there', seen or unseen.
Is ‘here’ is term of time or space?
It only means they are. But in terms of time they are ‘now’.
Here is basically falling into a category of space when used as here vs. there. However ‘here’ also means 'present' as compared to ‘not here’ or absent which is falling into the category of time.
So here is common for ‘space’ when used here vs there and for ‘time’ when used here vs. not here. In fact space and time could be the same - split into two - depending on usage or language. When in duality, they are two. In nonduality they are one. Space and time together could be the presence and this presence could be what we are as consciousness.
Your presence is required to see and hear. So the world appears to your presence or 'in' your presence. Your presence is all over wherever seeing or hearing is happening.Presence is the essence of 'is-ness' or being-ness or 'knowing'.
So what we are ‘factually’ is 'as presence'. But what we feel we are -is as an entity in this body mind object and this entity seems to be noticed by only its presence. This presence is in the immediacy of things and sounds and is 'what we are'. Recognising that we are this 'presence' or consciousness is itself awakening from the dream. This presence is not any one body-mind’s or individual’s presence, but it is just presence and not applicable to a body. It is a knowing that is just present ‘now and here as a knowing of this ‘moment’. It is this 'moment' that is unfolding events one after another and this ‘moment’ is what we are. If the feeling in you is as if you are a trapped entity, then seeking happens and when the feeling changes to pure knowing which is seeming the present ‘moment’, seeking stops. Along with this the thingness or characters of all objects disappear as a concept as if rolled over by the road roller.
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