On Tue, July 9, 2013 at 07:35 PM,
Martin Law <martin.rainbowmaker@gmail.com>
wrote:
“I AM JUST IN TIME.”
“I'm
just in time!” Oh that's a shame, don't you find that a great
limitation?
I
see websites devoted to the meme (idea) of being totally in the
present. With methods, practices, and tricks to 'acheive' it.
No
doubt, a lot of people will follow these with great anticipation, and
wonder why they didn't get anywhere.
Well
that's silly isn't it? It would be funny if it wasn't so common. So
many people, using all their energy to try to find a way to be where
they already are, and thinking it will be different when they do.
That's duality for you. No wonder we have a myth called 'progress.'
The
question has to be asked, 'where did you think you were before making
such an effort to be here?' Where else is there? Maybe you could
tell me how to get there.
The
reason you didn't feel right where you are, is because of the idea
called, 'the present', which you mistook for something 'other than'
what is. Which creates discomfort and resistance to what just is.
There
is no present to speak of. It's just a concept. Kept in place as if
by book-ends, by two other concepts called 'past' and 'future',
rather like a sandwich, a 'timeburger', but where 'are' the past and
the future and how do you get there?
Don't
say, 'the present becomes the future', because it doesn't. If that
was so, you could never be present, not for very long anyway.
Oh,
you say, but it does, 'in time'. Now you're really handcuffed in
concepts and spellbound in the real and literal sense of the term.
We
say, the child becomes the woman (though they usually say man) and,
the seed becomes the flower, (in time.) How could that be? When
they simply are what they are now. Or as you might say,'at all
times'.
What
other times? You mean there's more of them? Sounds like a hall of
mirrors. It's the chicken and egg question, which came first?
Well,
both and neither. Silly question. Chicken and egg are two terms for
aspects of one process. They just alternate, in a loop, like the
yin/yang symbol. There is no one without the other because they are
not separate things. No two ways about it. Change is eternal and
that includes the terms we use to 'point it out.'
Otherwise
it is, a hall of mirrors, at least for the time being. So how, or
even when, will you get out of that? You might not have enough time
because, as they say, “in time you die”, and that must be the
single most popular belief.
Rest
assured, you won't get out in the future. When did you ever see such
a thing as, 'the future'?
Everything
you ever experienced, is gone. Might as well get a damp cloth and
create a clean slate. But we don't do that do we?
Thinking
instead, 'the past made me what i am and it remains part of what i
am.' Well it does if you think it does.
We
call that,'identity.' Just a slightly modified version of what was
but isn't now. No wonder people grow old valuing their memories more
than what is, resigning to the slim chance of there being anything
else ultimately.
So
time as a concept could well be an alien implant, as it doesn't seem
to always serve us as well as we like to think it might. More likely
it's an error of thought which is self perpetuating like perpetual
motion. Simply because taken for granted and rarely questioned,
being unable to imagine anything else. Haven't we imagined too much
already, based on unquestioned and in some ways possibly erroneous
thought?
Clocks
are only circular rulers which measure spaces, to which we attribute
duration, another word for change. We allow these rulers to rule us.
Well they used to be circular, now they're more abstract and
insidious, being more akin to a numerical heartbeat.
Sundials
were, and are, closer to the truth, until we thought it necessary to
be in and on time everywhere.
The
grasping of, or better, 'the non-grasping-at' all this, i feel is
directly relevant to the nature of the shift in consciousness so many
are talking about, regarding 'the end of time.' More likely to be
the end of our current conception of time.
But
don't worry, you don't have to do or solve anything to be where you
are. Just dissolve the whole notion, it's only an idea. But
otherwise, if you like it, keep it. I don't have a lot of time for
it personally. Ask me 'some other time', preferably in the ever
elusive present. ~
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Rainbowmaker~
Camera Photos, martin law, 8th July 2013
Time ClocksStone Spiral Sunflower
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