The Present Is Not a Moment in Time
El presente no es un momento en el tiempo
A question about the nature of the present moment, timelessness, and the relationship between self and the infinite.
The Present Is Not a Moment in Time
A question about the nature of the present moment, timelessness, and the relationship between self and the infinite.
The sense that the present is a moment, a point in time, is also only a mental interpretation. The present moment is not a moment in time. It's timeless.
The timelessness of presence
To be more respectful of the words, you would have to say: in presence, all time appears. This is what Jesus meant when he said, "I am the Alpha and the Omega." Don't think of it as referring to the person Jesus. Think of it as referring to "I am." When you say "I," when all of us say "I," we refer to something. The interpretation is that he is telling us the true reality of "I am" is the Alpha and the Omega. The Alpha and the Omega means all times, all places, all things, all experiences, all sounds, sights, sensations, feelings, emotions. It is all contained in "I am."
And not separate.
Exactly. Another metaphor for this is the ocean and the wave. All times, all places, all experiences, all people, all planets are waves in this infinite ocean. The "I," the "I am," is the ocean. It's not a wave.
Where the word "I" misleads
The word starts to point incorrectly, because as we use it, "I" refers to "I versus you," self versus other. But it still points to the true "I."
If we bring up the metaphor of Christianity, this is where the Trinity comes in: three that are one, and one that are three. It's talking about an appearance of multiplicity which is only truly one thing. The self and God are the same thing. But the important thing to add is this: once that is seen, both "the self" and "God" don't have much meaning, because they only have meaning when they exist as separate.