The seemingly everchanging now never changes, as the universe is timeless. What changes is what's revealed in the light spectrum and hidden in other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum as the spectrum moves through space, not time. Through the light spectrum pinhole we see the now. The now never changes, only our perspectives of it change....
When the familiar is unfamiliar, have you awakened or lost your mind? The etymology of the word "mind" is memory. Awakening is escaping from the mind's dark prison. Every thing is then unlike anything you remember, reflecting its unique light. Beyond awakening is enlightenment, when every thing is the Everything: oneness with the light. When you are confused or anxious by what would otherwise be familiar, you've lost your mind....
At a recent family birthday party with twenty or so people, I asked my 10 year old grandson, Penn: "What I am?" "You're grandfather," Penn said. "Grandfather is who I am to you. But, what am I?" I replied. "I don't know what you're talking about," he said. "I am God," I said. "Anyone who doesn't recognize I am God doesn't recognize they too are God." "That's ridiculous," Penn said. "No one thinks you're God. If you are God, you could help me do anything which you can't." "Those who see my essence, recognize I'm God," I replied. "If I take off my clothes right here right now, many here will say: "Oh my God." We then both burst out laughing. "We're both God," I said. "As God, we can help people who don't take their self too seriously; otherwise, we can't do much but laugh."...
The Ultimate Self (US) is the eternal flow from before, to and after the now. While invisible before and after, in the now the timeless Ultimate Self is manifested as the temporary Individual Self (IS). In the now, US IS....
"Sat Sri Akal" is a common greeting in the Sikh community. Sat Sri Akal: "Truth is the Timeless One." Truth is, like God, ineffable. We know Truth is present in the absence of what is not true (illusions). As all things are everchanging, our descriptions of things are illusions; things as when we experienced them, but not as they are now. More fundamentally, our perception of reality as separate things is an illusion. The now is the now, one ever-flowing thing. It cannot be described as descriptions create spaces separating things from their intrinsic oneness. Truth, God, is the absence of descriptions. God is also the Timeless One. Time exists only in the now, where we've created time to slice and dice an otherwise overwhelming now. Before the now manifests, it is the void; a timeless realm of nothing but infinite possibilities. The void is God, the Timeless One. Without space or time separating things, God is all there is. Sat Sri Akal: I love and respect you as you are the manifestation of God. ...
The universe is composed of stuff (tangible things like stars, planets, asteroids, dust and gas) and the space between stuff. The everchanging stuff is the now. Before and after the now is the timeless space between the stuff. Approximately 99.9999999999999% of the universe is space. Meditation takes us from the now and into space....
Unconditional love can only be love of the whole universe, as loving some parts or people and not others is conditional love. ...
Enlightenment is not being one with everything or being in the now; but being oneness and timeless before, in and after the now (whatever that means)....
