Thread: Everything exists at the same time, happening continuously

Phil, you always speak in riddles quite pedantically, then ridicule people who don't understand what you are saying, but give the credit to the ancient Greeks. I'm just saying. I still am trying to understand the message behind your words, and this post has helped. Thanks. But I still have some way to go.

AS far as time exists or not. The body exists now. The mind exists in the past or the future. The mind cannot exist now. Because, like someone just said, once you think of it it is already the past. The conceptual mind filters every perception and automatically labels it and applies a previously learned symbol to it, usually an image and a word, but also often memories. The mind is a filter, and it interprets everything. By the time you are aware of these words that you are reading you have already read them. But it appears to be now, but be vigilant and observe. It is the past. How big or small is the present moment? Check it out. You will be surprised! That not even the present moment exists! But it is the most real thing. When you have found the present moment you have found your true self!!! (This is an open secret I give to you as a gift, who will accept it?) It is actually just a crack in this world that your spirit is squeezing through like light from under a door. But even less. It has no dimensions. You are what makes this present moment real, because you do not exist in the past or the future, but only now. Your reality makes everything it touches real. Even though the past does not exist, and even though the future does not exist, and even though the present is the only real thing but it is a no-dimensional edge between the illusory past and the non-existent future, time still goes on, empires rise and fall. time is a mystery.

Someone here just said that if time didn't exist that would mean that the Universe is being created now, but they didn't believe it. Yes, the universe is being created right now, through the present moment, by the same reality that shines through the vertical crack upon the horizontal line of time. Now I guess I am saying that the present moment is one dimensional, but these are just metaphors. If you are thinking about it and trying to understand then you are in the past or in some fantasy world. Come back to your body, here and now. This is real. The past may stretch out behind you, or to your left, the future may be ahead of you, or to your right, but these are fantasies and dreams. Lucidity is only now. Now is the realest time there is. If you see time as a horizontal line then the present moment is a vertical line crossing is like a cross. You exist at the top of the vertical line, not on the horizontal line. But this vertical line is just a spoke on the wheel, the tire being time that keeps on rolling. You are not on the tire, you are at the hub of the wheel, around which time revolves forever. At least that is where you will realize you have always been upon the moment of your death, but that is in the future, so realize it now. Time! Time is one of the greatest mysteries, and it is something that we can observe and learn from. But only if we don't THINK about it but only if we strive to dwell in the atomic moment. We might feel like we are too big to fit in the moment and that we are always in danger of overflowing, or balancing on a tightrope. Keep practicing. Through the present moment you pass through a gate into another dimension more spacious than this whole universe, but all within you, even though it contains the all the Universes. But your mind is too heavy to take to this lofty dimension. Time is drama. Don't believe in it, don't get caught in it. Don't kill time, don't buy time, don't invest in your future because then you will sell your present for counterfeit. It is a rip-off. Like my bro John Lennon said "Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." Life is at the center of the wheel, and so is death. In fact, life and death are only two different things that follow each other in time. Just like night and day. In reality, the sun is always shining, but not down here on this rotating ball (wheel) of earth.

Have you noticed that the older you get the faster time passes? I am sure you have. That is because time is relative. Einstein elucidated that with the theory of relativity. When you are young, one year might be only one twentieth of your life; a very big chink of your life. As you get older, one year is smaller and smaller in comparison to your life time. The smaller the unit, the faster it goes. The whole lifetime collectively is the same length regardless if you only live five years or if you live five hundred years. Time is a mysterious illusion and at the same time a force of nature. But we do not actually exist in time. We exist in eternity, which as some of you know, is only found now. Step through the gate of Now and enter Eternity. But you will have to leave your conceptual mind behind.