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Time / Duration – the belief in a progressive linear flow and movement than can be measured against the backdrop of the human, ego-self experience. It is the illusional cornerstone and foundation of the nature of time and the concept of temporal reality and existence.

Every sense-perception is in itself instantaneous, spontaneous, and impersonal. It is in the Present, is the Present, the only Present we ever know.”
Wei Wu Wei

Time / Duration

“Time is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one”
Albert Einstein.

Time, a simple concept, one that needs no explanation. But it is in its passage that we define not only our self, lives and events, but existence itself. We set up our lives around it, make plans by it, covet it, bemoan it and hoard it. It is both friend and foe.

And yet, it fundamentally never seems satisfactory. It is not that time itself is problematic, but it’s perceived duration. We treat Time and Duration like a commodity, trading our freedom for the illusion of comfort and safety.

We become slaves to it’s deceptive reflection, caught by its Siren call. Enchanted, Time and Duration is the rule and measure of our status. Bound in it’s web, most never see Time’s true substance. And once caught, few even recognize their loss of freedom.

“Once you accept time and space as real, you will consider yourself minute and short-lived. But are they real? Do they depend on you, or you on them?”
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

In order to regain our freedom, we must first look at how we define and determine it. Time and Duration is the linear temporal measurement of going from point A to point B. Flight time, movie length, personal and physical milestones, all are measured in a linear format. But exactly what is being measured?

When one watches a clock, it is believed that one is watching time pass. Each minute moving forward, the tick of the second hand, all give credence to the linear reality of time. But what we are truly observing and witnessing are events in the now. Each tick, every minute, all are events happening in the now.

It is in this measureless present that we live, the infinite singularity that is the now. According to new ground breaking quantum research, time is not a fundamental feature of nature, but rather an artefact of our imperfect perception. Our limited senses are incapable in its ability to process the present moment and reality happening in the now.

Time and Duration is only a concept, a convention of society. It is a snapshot of the arbitrary points A and B. It is but a relative view and measurement, dependent on the non-existent structure of time itself. Time – Duration is, at its foundation, a belief system. And as such, it is subject to all of the imperfections, filters, views, distortions and fears of the ego-self.

The key to your freedom has always been with you, hidden in plain sight, in the boundless, timeless, incommensurable now.

Who you really are asks, “ Can you be, just be, present and liberated , untethered by the illusion that is Time / Duration?”

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