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 identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of

fulfillment 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 to use it wisely

rather than waste it.

Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive

as precious is not time but the 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.