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.