The Rev
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Everything occurs in the present. The past and future are just ideas we have, and they are experienced in the present. Everything that arises and falls away in mind does so right now.
The thing of it is, the present has no substance. Even a millisecond can straddle it, with half its duration in the future, and the other half already in the past. So there's really nothing there one can grasp as the present moment that is not immediately in the past before it is ever grasped.
Yet that same past exists only in the present, as an idea, as a memory.
In this way, all of existence fits into a space with no dimension. It exists, yet does not. This is the contradictory nature of existence.
:namaste
The thing of it is, the present has no substance. Even a millisecond can straddle it, with half its duration in the future, and the other half already in the past. So there's really nothing there one can grasp as the present moment that is not immediately in the past before it is ever grasped.
Yet that same past exists only in the present, as an idea, as a memory.
In this way, all of existence fits into a space with no dimension. It exists, yet does not. This is the contradictory nature of existence.
:namaste