Everything we do revolves around time, but there are 2 types of time. Clock time which is necessary for organization and preventing mistakes from our past. But the other type, psychological time, is the cause of all problems and suffering.----concept from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle----
We have to come to understand our role as the creators of our own pain;
Our own mind causes our problems, not other people or anything external.
All negativity is caused by a build up of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry-all forms of fear- is caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past and not enough presence.
Most people find it difficult to believe that a state of consciousness totally free of all negativity is possible. And yet this is the liberated state to which all spiritual teachings point. It is the promise of salvation, not in an illusory future but right here and now.
You may find it hard to recognize that time is the cause of your suffering or your problems. You believe that they are caused by specific situations in your life, and seen from a conventional viewpoint, this is true. But until you have dealt with the basic problem-making dysfunction of the mind-its attachment to past and future and denial of the Now- problems are actually interchangeable. If all your problems or perceived causes of suffering or unhappiness were miraculously removed for you today, but you had not become more present, more conscious, you would soon find yourself with a similar set of problems or causes of suffering. Ultimately, there is only one problem: the time-bound mind itself.
Focus your attention on the Now and realize it is impossible to have a problem while fully in the Now. All situations either need to be dealt with or accepted, but why make it into a problem? The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts. Why carry in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future or what you could have done in the past, instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.
When you are aware of the Now, you are getting rid of the insane mind that is draining you of your life energy, just as it is slowly destroying the earth.
Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops-unless you choose to use it!
To be identified with your mind means you believe you are your thoughts and emotions.
When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice--the thinker--but the one who is aware of it.
To be identified with the mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.
The more you are focused on time-the past and future- the more you miss the now, the most important thing there is. Why is it the most important thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. Secondly, the now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of Being.
For most things in life, you need time: to learn a new skill, build a house, meet deadlines, however time is useless, for the most essential thing in life, the one thing that really matters: self-realization, which means knowing who you are beyond the surface self- beyond your name, your physical form, your history, your story.
You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now.
Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.
When you completely accept this moment, and when you no longer argue with what is, the compulsion to think lessens and is replaced by an alert stillness. You are fully conscious, yet the mind is not labeling this moment in any way. This state of inner non-resistance opens you to the unconditioned consciousness that is infinitely greater than the human mind. This great intelligence, your Being, can then express itself through you and assist you, both from within and from without.
I am not saying you have to enjoy the present moment and be happy. Just allow it to be and accept it, that?s enough.
Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future, it will happen in the Now. What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. The past and future are only pale reflections of the power and reality of the eternal present.
To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of the past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
If you don?t understand what I am saying you are trying to understand it mentally, you cannot understand Being with your mind you can only feel it from within.
The moment you grasp what I am saying there is a shift in consciousness from mind to Being, from time to presence.
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