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 the now, to the now and after the now. In the now, the 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....

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)....

Waves of sound and light come down. So many waves, we can easily drown. Oceans of memories is what we hear and see. All just stories, even me....