That which is known as a person,
is nothing other
than the self experiencing
of the infinite.
Once again that which is known as a person
is nothing other than the self experiencing itself as
finite. The self experiencing itself is finite.
In other words that which is known as a person is nothing than the self
which is the infinite experiencing itself as the finite.
In truth, it is the magnificent and infinite ocean of consciousness
in which numerous universes appear and disappear
like ripples and waves.
When the subject object notion is transcended all
the veils that enveloped the reality are removed.
The individual is nothing
but the personalized mind
individuality ceases when the mind ceases, it remains as long
as the notion of a personality remains.
So long as there's a jar. There's also the notion
of a space
inside the jar enclosed by the jar or confined to the jar. But when it is broken,
the infinite space alone is even when the jar was
imagined before as having containing that space.
Okay, so this is just some revision from the past and
to continue with our sutras for instant
um enlightenment. I proceed now with where we left out where we left before.
Our present insecurity comes from trying to be secure in the future.
So the search for security is the cause of oil insecurity. Think about that.
Having formed the habit of looking ahead or behind but never right here.
We never live in the real world
only the imagined world.
Time is the measurement of experience,
the measurement of energy, the measurement of motion.
When we think now, when you think the word "now",
we tend to think of the shortest interval of time that is immediately here.
But then it suddenly
vanishes, suddenly, immediately. It's gone.
As soon as you say "now" that "now" that you've thought about is gone.
The perception of time creates a present that
is constantly and instantly vanishing into the past.
Before you have time to capture the present,
it's gone.
It's ungraspable.
The idea of time does not allow us to actually experience a present.
It is too short lived.
We actually experience time slipping away.
We developed emergency expressed in phrases
such as "Don't waste time".
"Time is money" 49 00:03:18,670 --> 00:03:19,880 "Time is valuable"
So time becomes anxiety.
This actually is a sensation in the body.
The anxiety that we call time anxiety is a
cognitive and perceptual experience of past and future.
When we are asked who we are,
we actually describe who we were.
Of course we also project a future and an idea
that this future has the ability to supply us with something
that will give us what we are really looking for: satisfaction, fulfillment,
happiness.
Peace of mind.
This is because we live in a present
that is so short-lived,
that it's not really here.
All this of course,
is a hallucination because in reality
there's no such thing as time.
There is only now, both the past and future projections in imagination.
The measurements of experience.
There is only now. Every experience real or imagined
is now. To not live in now, to live in a demented world
of hallucinations.
To not live now or not live in the now, is to live in a demented world of hallucinations.
And so it's no measure of sanity to adjust
to this world
of insanity.
Time is the measurement of experience. As I said,
measuring is done through symbols.
It is an extraordinary human ability to create symbols
through which we can measure.
Each symbol is a measuring device and usually a number.
These symbols measure experience against each other.
Each experience, of course, happening in the now. And so in the creation of symbols,
we sacrifice
reality
for a map of reality.
But even the map of reality can give us an idea what the territory of reality is.
We sacrifice wealth for a symbol:
Money.
We sacrifice eternity
for numbers of seconds, minutes, hours, years that elapsed in the imagination.
Now.
Space is a state of consciousness that measures the distance between us objects
projected by us.
That is consciousness. Now.
We use numbers to measure it inches, yards, miles, light years.
We describe the experience
by attaching numbers to it. But of course the description of the experience
and the measuring of it is not the experience itself, which is only now.
The experience is reality.
The description is a symbol. So more on this later. Okay,
but
just remember,
time is anxiety.