If you are able to sit still long enough in your meditative practice, clock time eventually dissolves. You smile as thoughts come to mind that try to drag your attention back to the clock. Their attempt to influence you to move from stillness has no effect. The real you has separated from your thought and now you can easily be an objective witness to them. The thought itself evaporates and another will step forward that will provide you with another notion that there is something else more interesting or urgent to do besides sitting still. You recognize this as the automated conditioning of your mind and not you. It is as if your ego or “I Maker” is pulling different task, that have been stored in your memory bank, out and bringing them to the center stage of your mind to remind you of possible actions. You have reached a state of “being” in that instant that is present where you know that is unnecessary to disrupt your stillness.
In between each thought is an infinite space or “spacelessness”. When you focus on this space you float out into its unfathomable depth. Your perception is no longer only linear but now includes vertical depth.
As the body remains at rest and free from thought the mind positively evolves. This not only includes your own mind but encourages the human evolution of all minds. In this linear space your perception leaves only a slight human imprint as the labels that were placed upon you during your aging process remain above on the linear plane in the form of thoughts. In this space you experience perception without human interpretation; a labeless present. In this space there is no clock time only real time. The time of the present instant. In this space past and future merge with the present moment to create real time. Once you become aware of this within yourself you can never lose it. It is imprinted in your memory. You can go back to living your life as if there is only linear perception but your bodymind will periodically step in to remind you that there is a whole other universe inside you.
These reminders may come when you are overwhelmed by your linear thoughts. Since the vertical space carries no labels there is no anxiety or depression. In this space you are not required to do anything or believe anything. You are nestled in the peaceful knowing that you are an integral part of something far bigger than yourself. You are alive, safe, nourished, and eternally present.
Mind scientist focus on linear thought when attempting to heal someone from conditioned dysfunctional thought processes that cause stress. Spiritual Counselors focus on the space between the thoughts as in the infinite depth of this space is the essence of our Divine source. Both are an important part of who we are.
“Time is seemingly tamed if we treat it spatially on a calendar or the face of a clock, where we can make it appear as divided into separate units next to each other. But this also falsifies time. Real time has no divisions at all, but is uninterruptedly continuous: at midnight yesterday did not click over into today. No one can find the exact point of midnight, and if it is not exact, how can it be midnight? And we have no experience of today as being next to yesterday, as it is represented on a calendar. Reduced to space, time seems more under control—but only seems to be, for real, indivisible time carries us to real death. (This is not to deny that spatial reductionism is immeasurably useful and technologically necessary, but only to say that its accomplishments are intellectually limited, and can be deceiving.)”
Orality and Literacy; Walter Ong, 1982 Methuen & Co. Ltd, Pg. 74
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