Sir Darius the Clairvoyent Posted July 3, 2024 (edited) A YouTube channel (from seeker to seeker) i follow posted the following: --- âEternity does not mean everlasting time; it means a point without time, timelessness⊠all of eternity can fully and completely fit into every moment of time. âAnd because eternity is timelessness, there is no conflict or tension between eternity and timeâall of timeless eternity is fully present at every moment of time. That means that eternity is ever-present⊠â[Ludwig Wittgenstein says] âIf we take eternity to mean, not everlasting temporal duration, but a point without time, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.â âExactly. And this means that eternal life is fully available to you, right nowâin fact, itâs available to you at no other time except right now⊠âFalling into the timeless Now is what happens with an authentic Waking Upâwhich therefore does indeed include a discovery of eternal lifeâyour eternal life⊠--- â[V]irtually all of the Paths of Liberation maintain that the Enlightened Mind is absolutely impossible to achieve or attain. The Christian mystics claim that in reality you donât have to do a single thing to reach complete salvationâby the grace of God, you are already fully saved. Zen says that âeveryday mind, just that is the Taoââwhich means that the everyday state of consciousness that you have right now is indeed the Enlightened Mind, just as it is. The Prajnaparamita Sutrasâthe core of virtually all of Mahayana Buddhismâmake one point over and over again: âIf you could just realize that the Enlightened Mind is not attainable, you would be Enlightened.â âThe Enlightened Mind is not attainable because you already have it, all of it. You can no more attain Enlightenment than you can attain your kidneys or acquire your feet⊠âYou are already living fully in the present, in the timeless Now, but you probably donât recognize this. Correlated to this lack of recognition of the timeless Now is the belief that time itself is real. --- âWe seem not to live in the Present because we take the past and the future to be real, and thoughts about those realities keep us so absorbed and distracted that we miss the timeless Present and the Enlightened Mind. And according to the Paths of Liberation, the stream of time is no more than an illusionâitâs not really thereâitâs just part of the âdream worldâ that we are supposed to awaken from, even though, in reality, we actually donât have to do anything but recognize the ever-present, timeless, eternal Now that is always already the case⊠âThis Now-moment doesnât move through time; time moves through it⊠As Erwin Schrödinger, the cofounder of modern quantum mechanics, put it, âThe present is the only thing that has no end.â ⊠âMany of the Paths of Liberation therefore refer to the Enlightened Mind as âthe Unbornââitâs unborn because it never enters time; it is never born in the temporal stream. And this means that, in your direct awareness right now, your own Enlightened Mind is Unborn. You can never give birth to it because it is already fully present in its entirety and thus is indeed unattainableâjust like the timeless Now. --- âBut notice that the Paths of Liberation also call the Enlightened Mind âthe Undying.â It never dies because, having never entered the stream of time (itâs Unborn), it never leaves the stream of time⊠âThis means that you are not living in the narrow, passing present, which is brutally squished in between a huge past and a seemingly endless future. You are not crammed and wedged into a temporal sequence running from the past to the passing present to the future. âRather, you are living in the limitless Spaciousness of an all-embracing timeless Now, through which all past, present, and future events arise within the vast openness of this boundless, borderless Presence. You are not in the entire past-present-future sequence, but it is within you. You embrace it all⊠â[V]irtually everybody who has a genuine Waking Up experience feels that they are directly and profoundly connected to an eternal, absolute, all-pervading, all-inclusive Reality, which is felt not only as a Waking Up to Reality but also as a âComing Home,â since this is where they truly belong and always have belonged.  âThis Reality is a supreme Identity that is always already the case, timeless, ever-present, eternal⊠âOf course, while it is definitely true that you are perfectly one with the Ground of All Being just as you are, right now, you still need to recognize that fact⊠it takes a satori to see that you donât need a satori. (Ken Wilber, Finding Radical Wholeness)  Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Eternity is now. Edited July 3, 2024 by NaturaNaturans Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
