Physical and Psychological time.
Physical time as we observe flows from Past to Future- Clock
or Calendar time.
But, psychological time flows the other way, that is from
Future to Past, in
the sequence of
Intention, Action and Realization.
Physical Time
Time was once considered as absolute, but now it is another
dimension like length or
Breath.
It shrinks and expands like any other spatial dimension,
though it is not part of day to day
experience.
Anyway, expansive scientific facts like billion galaxies,
light years and shrinking facts
about subatomic particles, wave probabilities are remote to
our experience.
As far as time.
Though time is abstract, it is measured through periodic
events – arm of the clock, sun’s
cycle, atomic decay and so on.
Time in Life
In life, time is perceived through events in life arranged
in a chronological order,
connecting thread being the Self/Ego which goes through the
events.
We know there were yesterday / past because we remember the
events.
Similarly,
We know there will be tomorrow / future because we remember
past ‘tomorrows’ came
into being.
One can also think about the past or future and indulge in
nostalgia or day dreaming.
Both are only ‘Thinking’, projections of the mind, mental
concepts, not real.
That is living in an ‘unreal’ world, which exists only in
the mind or thoughts.
Actuality or Reality
or ’The Living Truth’ is only in the Present or Now.
All around us there is only NOW.
Whatever happens, can happen only in the NOW.
Past and Future are only mental projections.
We are not suggesting about ‘forgetting the past’ or ‘not
planning for the future’.
We need to remember the past and plan the future.
It is about ‘living’ in the present.
Normally, one do not live in the ‘PRESENT’, one’s thoughts
are everywhere, in to the
past or into the future .
To live really, one must be entirely available to the
present.
To understand, one can recall an incident of joy one went
through.
One could notice,
- Entire being was
available to that PRESENT,
- Absence of
ego/ego-self,
- No good or bad past
interfered, not even sickness or pain
- No struggle of
becoming something
- Energy level was
optimum
- and was not even aware that one is in joy.
All the above qualities can also be found among children,
though unconscious.
The reason being,
In Gurdjief’s terms ,
Children possess only essence (Real-Self), ego-self is not
yet developed, and personality
is not taken root because their interaction with the outer
world is minimal.
Their consciousness is all in the present – no nostalgia
about the past or day dreaming
about the future.
That is why in some religions, it is said ‘BE LIKE
CHILDREN’.
It is obvious one can not become a child, and it is also senseless.
The point is to make one’s being entirely available in the
present,
Being entirely in the PRESENT means stepping out of time.
Past and Future belongs to time, but present is ‘timeless’
and ‘beyond measure’.
It is not something mystical.
One can test it by looking at familiar people with a
fresh/new mind, which is without the
aid of past experiences (a measure in time).
It is more than fun.
We will continue with Time.
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