What Is Time For Us?

You are here. Alive. Knowing. Awake. Conscious.

All your life experiences happen in the now and here. Never “then”. Negating that, for your life experiences the understanding. then exists. It’s always now. Whatever happens to you happens now. You have never been to “then”. You will never go there. As as soon as you go to “then” it becomes now.

Time, my friends, is a measurement of now and then. The difference. The space between now and then. For your life experiences. In all of them, there is no concept of time as there is never a “then”. For your brain yes, but for your life no.

Time is a container which the brain created over 2 million years of evolution and understanding that it needs to keep some memories for optimum survival. In this container, which sits on top of our lives, there are lessons that our bodies need to survive. Like pain: so that we can be careful and not cut our throats! If there was no pain, your body would be dead! It has also many other memories which help us to eat, drink, wash and do other things to take care of our bodies.

This container of time and space is where memories live. The purpose of these memories? Survival. Not depression and excessive thinking. Not storing desires and wants. Not storing what you like and dislike. Not to keep memories of who you like or who you detest. Not even a memory that you are a separate being or you are a person and this is your name…

However, all these memories also live there. And we have to accept that. All of what resides in the brain’s space-time container is part of this person you think you are. This isn’t going anywhere. All what is in this container is memories, mostly conditioned and limited in their knowledge and nature. Recycled and second-hand info. This person’s brain is limited, like all brains. Limited to the memories it stores itself.

For the life you live, however, and experience every moment, space-time is a mere illusion.

Understanding this illusion means the brain can itself start to understand that whatever we are, we don’t live in that illusion. We are the understanding and the knowing of this space-time and memory world, but we are not “it”

What we are, you have to realise, connect back, feel and be self-aware yourself. There is no one else who can feel you, and meet you, apart from yourself. It is your right and duty to understand what you are and what is all this brain drama. It is in your nature to feel your presence. To feel alive. To feel here. It is in your nature to be still and know what you are. Meditation is not a practice, it’s a necessity for you. In the same way breathing is for this human body and mind, sitting still and being aware of what you are, is essential for you and your existence. You have to meet yourself at least once every day or what is the purpose of life when we won’t even know what we are, beyond who we are?