14. Time and space

This post is very important and very tricky and the catch of any seeker. If one can actually ‘feel’ space and time correctly, then there is very little headway left to the ultimate goal. Goal, in the sense, to get a feeling of how stupidly we believe- in things that are’not’.

 
Time and space does not exist exist at all in its own capacity.  They are only concepts and totally unreal. However it is impossible for one to feel so. The day they feel so, it would be a great day.

Time:

Scientist invented time as a grasp for change. As a measure for change. Its a unit of change. What is - is change. How we may grasp it is in its translation into time. Assume that time exists and is divided into blocks and we are describing the present block by directly looking into it. This part can be seen to be real, as it not be from memory or imagination but direct seeing. We can call it ‘The present block of time’.

If time were passing as we assume it to be, then the present block of time should flow onwards to become the past and new block of time that was the future has to present itself now.  You can wait for eternity to wait and see when the present block ends. This will never happen, however long the wait would be.

Now try and comprehend a block of time that we think already happened yesterday. Attempting this itself is a process that would have to be done in the ‘present block’ of time. Also what we will ‘now’ be doing is extracting the events we earlier experienced ‘now’ as events from memory, or as a thought. All this has to arise only in the present block of time and that too about ‘yesterday’.

This means, we are squeezing some memories of yesterday through this present block of time. This means, we are trying to move time in the present block instead of the present block moving and becoming the past.

Is time moving in the present block or present block of appearances moving in time? The present block never moved.

Same with future. You can only imagine the future events that may happen and this imagination of the future has to take place in the present block of time and not in any future block of time.

So past and presnt are mental frames. If the present frame should join it seemlessly, it should also have a mental essence or a psychic essence. So there is no physical time. It is a ‘made up’ concept to explain a situation or an event. We try to squeeze the contents of appearances from memory for the past and imagination for the future to make them as contents of the present block and make meaning of them as if the present block of time is being unsqueezed out and made broader. The present moment or presence is beyond time. Time is not applicable here.

Space is another context that never was. Look at space. ' Here'  is reality.

You are sitting in a room. All that appears there is - all that is there.

Now the mind is squeezing office, America, Africa etc into the here and gives it a bigger feel of space. This makes us believe that ‘here’ is so big and the universe with all the ‘bigness’ is ‘here’.

There nothing like near and far or here and there. They exist only with respect to the other and not in an absolute sense. When we talk about the body parts for example, we do not say that my hand is closer or my brain is further away from ‘me’. We say that such sentence is invalid because all body parts are contained in me. For contents ‘inside’ this reference is invalid. We then see that the “I” is not a reference point or a spot inside the body. When we try and see where this feel if ‘I” is concentrated, we fail to pinpoint any spot because there no spot anywhere that ‘I’ feels concentrated about. When we say I feel pain in my foot, there is only a feel of pain in the foot and has no logistics with the feel of ‘I’ness at some other point. There just seems to be a ‘presence’ in which experiencing seem to go on.

There are only appearances appearing here in the presence and disappearing. Rest is mind game.

Presence is here and now. It is beyond time and space meaning that presence cannot be bound by time and space or that time and space cannot be applied to Presence. Mathematics ( WHICH IS TIME AND SPACE) cannot be applied to life or ‘Being’.

Time and space are only extensions given to make meaning of appearances. However, space and time itself are appearances in time. Space and time are giving context to contents but there are only contents and context is the mind. There are only thoughts which are the contents and they seem to appear in a space called ‘The Mind’. There is no  ‘mind’ other than thoughts. The thought that there is a mind is also only a thought and cannot be thought off as a separately existing mind.

What is a thought, sound or colours or shapes . They are just appearances to presence. They are energy movements in presence which is recognised as thoughts, sounds, shapes and hardness.. All appearances of energy movements and are equally ‘near or far’ to presence. The appearance of moon out there is an experience just as that of a chair nearby. Both are here in the ‘presence’ right now. It is like - a thought of yesterday is as near as a thought of ‘30 years’ before. Both are taken out of memory instantaneously.

None are near or far. It is simply there or not there - which is the same as -here or not here. It seems that all thoughts are within our reach but we cannot locate the space where they arise.

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When we see, there is just seeing or knowing. The mind is only useful for storage of the contents of experience. It finds it simple to store them in a sequence for ease of use whenever required. The present block doesn’t move. Only the contents of memory or imagination move giving an illusion of time. This happens because, we take that our body is not an experience but the whole for what we call ’I’. When this knowledge is corrected and the ‘I’is not seen as ‘body’, there is a feel is lightness.

There is just knowing. When there is desire to save the experience, there is a requirement to evaluate and save the experience by a ‘known as”. This can only happen with a reference point like known as w.r.t someone. So a someone or a reference is to be generated first and then only evaluation can be done.

Like in a computer, when writing is over and saving is required, there is question ‘ save as?’ and the reference decides to choose the title. I would choose one title and some other person may just say don’t save.

So memory has to have a reference called space time which is the temporary ‘me’. The real me is the space time that is here and now.