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  • Time-Blocking in Timelessness

    Is Time-Blocking Recommended for Beings of Timelessness?

    Essential Time Management TimelessnessI woke up with the title of this post in my mind. I have no idea where it came from – perhaps timelessness. I recall it being in one of my dreams, but there it was in my mind as I re-entered my time-space consciousness. I let it roll around in my brain for a while to see what it would generate.

    The first generation of thought was around a friend of mine, Janel, that teaches a course every now and then  on “Essential Time Management.” The course is directed toward people on spiritual paths who incorporate a daily spiritual practice into their lives and are trying to integrate the affairs of this world into a life that is more oriented toward living in the NOW – Timelessness – than remaining stuck in the conditioning and confines of the space-time continuum.

    These days if one is attempting to Be In the World, but Not of IT, essential time-blocking may support one’s effort in the direction of living in Presence, the NOW and Timelessness – a boundless dimension of experience that challenges the belief in oneself as a separate entity.

    The next impression to arise in my mind was of people with beeping watches. You know the type – they have their watches set to beep on the hour or half hour to remind themselves of some goal – perhaps being mindful – who knows. I can’t swear to it, but it seems that the majority of them tune out the hourly beep after all – it fading into the background with all the other white noise of life.

    But then that led to a thought of setting the beep to occur in ever smaller and smaller increments of time until one’s realm of experience was reduced to the NOW or Timelessness.

    It was at this point that I rolled out of bed, went to meditate, then onto my morning stretches and finally into my day that was overloaded with projects and “to dos” – a list that never ends. Thus, in spite of my attempts to remain mindful and concentrate on the most important things needing attention – the day ended as countless others before it – in desperate need of a consciousness receptive to time-blocking in a universe only a stone’s throw from timelessness.

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  • Lighting Up the Now

    If we experience ourselves in our true self-existing condition, we will see that what we actually are is a being of light.

    LightSo says A.H. Almaas in his new book – The Unfolding Now. Chapter 13 of the new book is titled – Lighting Up the Now – and is available as a free download here.

    We are beings of light in the fluid state—completely frictionless, completely luminous, totally radiant and free. Now, everybody knows that because light has no mass and no weight, gravity does not affect it. So, in our True Nature, we have no heaviness, no thickness, no weight. We are substantial only in the sense that fluid light has a fullness, a bodyness to it. But that fullness, that substantiality, is completely light and smooth. That is the nature of awareness. And because it is light, it doesn’t help us see—it is what sees, it is what perceives. Thus light, awareness, consciousness, perception, sensitivity are all the same thing.

    In this chapter, Almaas asks the reader not to believe, but to imagine – open the mind to the implications of our true nature being light.

    What are the implications of this for understanding what it means to be ourselves? If we apply it to our internal life, we can see that the more we are present and the more fully we are experiencing and being our essential presence, the more we will experience things slowing down. This seems to be a law of time—not that linear time is being altered, but more time becomes experientially “available” to us. Thus, the slowing down of our experience of time will place us more and more in the present. The more we are the presence, the more we are in the present. So, the slowness of time has a lot to do with being in the present.

  • Timelessness – All Time – No Time

    Timelessness is NOW. Timelessness includes no time and all time. It is the moment that is always now.

    TimelessnessThe 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.

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  • The Unfolding Now

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    A new book by A.H. Almaas – The Unfolding Now – will be released 6/10/08. With all the interest generated in the NOW by Eckhart Tolle and Oprah, it will interesting to see if Almaas’ works become more widespread.

    I have a manuscript copy of The Unfolding Now and I think it is one of Almaas’ most useful books for people interested in presence, the now, and spiritual development.

    The Unfolding Now goes into great detail about the barriers and issues that keep us out of the now.

    I love The Unfolding Now! Almaas’ clarity never diminishes, yet each book brings an increasing simplicity and gentleness. As I worked with this latest material, I felt like I was receiving a transmission of pure compassion. His strong, true voice reminds us that beyond the endless self-improvement projects and idealized mystical states with which the spiritual path is strewn lies the simple but exquisite taste of our own being.

    Cynthia Bourgeault, author of Mystical Hope, The Wisdom Way of Knowing,
    Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening

    Almaas is a genius at revealing both the core qualities of Essence and the veils that obscure it, always in language that helps peel away those veils, always holding open the door to the unfolding presence and awareness that remains when the veils have dissolved. The Unfolding Now leads the reader through a masterful series of inquiry processes, invitations to sense and know ourselves at increasing levels of subtlety, gently walking us deeper and deeper into Truth.

    Sally Kempton (Durgananda) spiritual teacher and author of
    The Heart of Meditation: Pathways to a Deeper Experience

    “Without heart, we are not really human. And the possibility of having an authentic and deeply satisfying human life is only a pipe dream when our love is not directed to what truly fulfills the heart. To find true fulfillment, many of us at some point in life turn to the spiritual search. But what is it in spirituality that gives this fulfillment? Where does this deep satisfaction come from?

    First we need to find out why we become involved in the spiritual search in the first place. What are we looking for when we begin the journey? To experience new and remarkable states of consciousness? To travel to extraordinary realms beyond our everyday world? To be liberated from the difficulties and constraints of the world? Or are we looking to enrich and deepen the meaning of the lives we are living here on Earth? If our aim is to engage in our spiritual work so that it can impact and transform the way we live, we have to begin by seeing what we are actually doing in our lives. What are we up to? What do we really want?”

    The Unfolding Now

     

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