Zen, Yoga, Gurdjieff: Lee's Gurdjieff Newsletter

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On The Nature of Time and Being
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On The Nature of Time and Being

Part I

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Lee van Laer
Apr 09, 2023
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Let us begin by understanding that all time takes place in a single moment. This isn’t a theoretical proposition but a hard fact.

Our sequential impressions of our lives are perceptually false, an illusion based on the division of time into parsed segments by the psychological mind, which is only able to perceive arriving impressions in related sequences. In fact, all life and Being manifest within what is called eternity: that is, they exist outside of time in a single perpetual and comprehensive instant.

In this way, all the moments of our lives are simultaneous with one another, and things that happened to us in our distant past, even in childhood, are not only directly "connected" to us through our sequenced perception of time over the course of our life, but are actually still present with us, and are still taking place in the same instant as now.

In order to better profit from this understanding, undertake the following exercise.

In any moment of Presence, when the energy is flowing into you, the silence expanding, and  cosmological sensation is naturally deepening itself without your interference, don’t just watch (although of course we begin here, where we learn not to interfere.)

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