Timelessness is NOW. Timelessness includes no time and all time. It is the moment that is always now.
The ordinary meaning of being in the now usually means pay attention to what is happening in this moment of time and space. It is usually directed at the content of one’s experience.
Most of us probably had parents who harangued us at times to pay attention, to be here now. But those moments probably did not contain the sense of timelessnes – being beyond time. In fact, they most likely bound us more to the sense of time.
Mystics and saints talk of timelessness, of how being in the now or the present moment transcends time. What’s interesting is that being in the now, in the timeless state, does not stop the dynamic movement of the universe or the phenomena of time. Things continue to happen in time and space, but one’s experience is more fundamental than time.
Timelessness includes time. Time is of timelessness. Time and events are happening within timelessness, from timelessness.
Many people, in fact, probably most of us, have experiences of timelessness, but we rarely stop to explore the experience in the moment – to really get curious about what is happening. If we do, our conditioning will automatically engage the linear mind in the exploration which brings us back into the realm of time.
To explore timelessness, we need to be able to observe and perceive with awareness and presence without thinking, without engaging the content in a conceptual manner. This means engaging in a direct phenomenological exploration – what is happening right now without interpretation from the past.