bahman wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:01 pm
By mind I mean the essence of a being with ability to experience, decides and act. Such a thing is spaceless and timeless.
Ok... I would call this "thing" awareness, even its not a thing.
bahman wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:01 pm
My question is how you could have an illusion of temporality in a timeless awareness? This seems contradictory to me considering the fact that you claim that awareness is timeless. The awareness in timeless framework should be timeless by definition.
True! An so it is. The "awareness in timeless framework IS timeless" - it's only thoughts/memories that refer to a previous now that's not this now (past/future) that create the illusion of time.
Its pretty obvious that all that IS has to be now, right? You cannot be but now - you can only think/project yourself into the past or future, but You will not move - only thought creates the illusion of movement in time.
The past and the future do not exist - only now is. They only
exist as thought referring to apparently previous
nows.
Problem is that thought cannot even grasp
this now, but it even claims to have knowledge of past
nows... this is a wrong assumption. Thought always only
knows interpretations of
now that it diligently links up into chains of interpretations, as such creating a past (of interpretations) and with it the illusion of time. Time is as such a thought story, a chain of interpretations that is non existent otherwise.
Yes, there are thoughts stating that I was born some time ago, that I had a birthday party last year and that another one will be happening soon, but that's all story happening in thought. It has nothing to do with now - now is pure knowing, pure experiencing - it has nothing to do with the concepts and ideas that arise within the
dimension of thought. This doesn't mean that we have to attempt to live a life condemning the concept of time, it can be quite practical, but we can understand that its ultimately not what defines us.
We, our true essence - pure awareness - is not touched by any concept, while we, the mind-made individual, are bound by all of the conceptual laws that we invent - simply because we have created a limited image of ourselves that is in a certain relation to the primary concepts of space/time/objects/movement that we have accepted as our reality...
In a way you could say that You are two beings - the primary is pure, timeless, awareness, the secondary, invented one, is the time-bound person... most people only know the personal side. A few have discovered their true nature as being pure awareness (which doesn't mean that the person will not have any more birthdays)