Time

Time,
Time,
Time, see what's become of me
While I looked around for my possibilities.

I was so hard to please.
Look around,
Leaves are brown,
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.

Hear the Salvation Army band.
Down by the riverside's
Bound to be a better ride
Than what you've got planned.

Carry your cup in your hand.
And look around.
Leaves are brown.
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.

Hang on to your hopes, my friend.
That's an easy thing to say,
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend that you can build them again.
Look around,
The grass is high,
The fields are ripe,
It's the springtime of my life.

Seasons change with the scenery;
Weaving time in a tapestry.
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time?
Funny how my memory skips
Looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme.

Drinking my vodka and lime,
I look around,
Leaves are brown,
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter.

(A Hazy Shade of Winter by Simon and Garfunkel)

Time, we know what it is, but when asked to describe it, we can’t. Why? Because it is what we live in, so the description of time would have us describe all that we do all the time. But does it exist? Many philosophers have asked and pondered that question many a time. And we know it does, because we carry a watch around with us that proclaims that time exists.

It has been said that ones mission is to kill time and time’s mission is to kill one. Assassins feel at ease with each other. And scientists have even studied what is called the "arrow of time" which is a theoretical notion that time can be reversed. Although physicist may give way to the notion that an omelette cannot revert back to an egg, they do claim that the theory works for certain almost imperceptible particles. Well we are all looking for that fountain of youth, aren’t we. We all would wish to Be twenty again and to live our lives over and perhaps do things differently, if only we had the time to do so.

But time marches on. And that is just it. If nothing moves, time disappears. Yet everything moves, so time cannot ever disappear. Time must then be eternal! Yet we know that we are not. Well at least we know that our bodies are not, because we measure time against the backdrop of our death, when time for us ceases to exist. The passage of time is a personal experience for we can’t live an others life, only our own. So time becomes more precious to us, as we get older. To some, some say, that time has been good to them. To others, not so good.

But time marches on.

Each one of us owns the whole of available time, which can neither be modified or changed. ALL the resources of time are neither reusable nor renewable. Once here and gone, time can never be relived. It regulates and measures our life. What we do with it, gives us the experience in time, but that experience is only experienced once in a life time. Try to experience the same experience, and you will find that it is never the same. So we try to just remember the time we had when we experienced the time of out life. Yet that falls short too. So, many try to make their time a time of quality and not of quantity. But both take the same time to experience

And time marches on.

It torments us constantly. We dwell in it so as to forget it and speed it up while hoping to outdistance it. Although this may be irrational thinking and done unconsciously, it produces in us like fear of waiting and the inability to concentrate. We become impatient with it because it takes to much time to do it. Try waiting for a 386 computer to function after you are used to a Pentium 2 gig clock. Perhaps you even take the time to holler at it asking it "what’s taking you so much long?" So you buy a faster one, hoping that time will become shorter. But time never changes. Only your experience in it does. Time is eternal but seems to disappear into thin air and we often reach into the shy to get it back. Like the wind, time goes where it likes, when it likes and we cannot stop it. We only make use of it.

It is said that patience is a virtue that carries a lot of wait. It is also a virtue that God asks of us. But many do not want to wait for it. They want it Now.

Of the three types of time, experienced time is the one that directly effects us most. The others, cosmic time, that of nature and creation, etc and that of social, like meetings days and weeks, which has a close embrace to us. But experienced time is where we live. Our consciousness does not perceive time, but duration which varies depending on our state of Being. This perceived duration is the very stuff of our experience.

In experienced time, an hour or a year do not have the same subjective duration for people at different stages of life or circumstances. It is experienced time that we feel is lacking. To some , a memory, to others a future thought that does not materialize. As a child, it takes forever to become older. As we grow older time shrinks and we feel trapped in time waiting impatiently for it to end. But time marches on.

It has been said that time is the first succession of the past, the present and the future. But the past no longer exists nor does the future since it doesn’t yet exist. In reality, only the NOW exists. The present is where we experience all the time we know. The past consisting of memories we can never relive, but try to. The future consisting of projects we want to experience, but would like to do that Now. Placing the past, future and present on the same plane and realm, completely falsifies our perception of time, which is only in the NOW. In general. Most ponder the past because it is easier to remember than to foresee. So most dwell on what they have done, rather than what they are BEing right NOW..

Yet time marches on.

How, then, do we change that which is unchangeable? How do we revert the un-revertable? Can it be done at all? Do we have the time? The answer to these comes from how we can master time. Time itself does not move: we live in it in this physical realm where time exists, but time itself is stationary. To master time, is to come to the realization that it does not exists as we have come to understand it, for ALL time is NOW. NOW is eternal. ALL time exists in the NOW. It is only our mind that defines what we know of as time, because our natural mind dwells on the experiences of the past and tries to project possible experiences into the future, based upon past experiences and understanding. But NOW cannot be measured, because eternity is beyond measurement. ALL your time exists right NOW and it is only that NOW you can experience in this realm In essence NOW is where reality meets the Illusion. Spirit meets physicality and they Become ONE.

When Jesus said I and the Father are one, He knew what time was and understood that ALL time was in His NOW. He knew that He was God (Spirit) manifest in the Illusion (flesh) and that time existed in NOW. Both had come together as One.

How do we master time? Know that it exists only in your NOW of eternity. The Christ mind knows only the NOW. We are to put on the Mind of Christ. It is the Mind of eternity and the NOW of the Eternal.

Time marches on.

What do we do now? Well that is precisely what you do do, for all that you do, all that you experience is always in the NOW. Try sending your arm into the future or your foot into the past. It can’t be done. But we are Spirit within this physical realm and this realm is one of time. ALL that is seen is but Spirit manifested and manifestation is one of time.

Master your NOW and you master your time. Time will no longer march on, it will BE eternal.

Namaste

Sirius8

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