Bernardo… Re your 5.2.23 essay about “time…”
And quoting from it…
“…we can’t ever catch the present moment, even though we are—paradoxically—always in it.“
Not in it, we are IT…
“We live bang in the middle of eternity and have never lived anywhere else.“
Yes… AND…
“To realize this is the apotheosis of hard-nosed reason, not just romantic spiritual insight.”
“Hard-nosed reason” is still, just and merely another map… And what you are mis-calling “romantic spiritual insight” is the actual terrain itself, realizing itself, in ever more and infinitely greater and greater (relative) ways…
As each of us and all of us, in all “our” myriad and various possibilities of expression, over “time”…
Time in this sense being the infinite and infinitely dimensional (unmeasurable in any dimension) “field” of all relationship... AKA relativity…
All of this existence, in and as which we share these ever differentiating and infinitely overlapping experiences, is NOTHING other than relationship…
Bernardo, you can stand on the edge of what I’ll call here for convenience the infinite precipice, and keep “cutting” your distance to it in half, forever… And forever “you” will remain only and mere conceptualization…
“Forever” in this context being merely “time,” as you are attempting to describe it, in more and greater ways than you can ever ever imagine… Only be…
Another way to say the same thing is you can play in the map rooms and upon the map tables “forever…”
It will remain always and forever (continuing this same understanding or metaphor) be your choice…
Go out the door and truly disappear into this terrain you always and already are, or keep hanging out within the confines of the maps…
This IS the only real choice there ever truly is…
Until, perhaps in one of these infinitely coexisting “moments,” so to speak, that you are still attempting to “grasp,” you choose, fully and consciously, differently…
Therein will begin, in and AS this experience you are presently calling your "self," a whole different kind of Journey…
Cheers… 🙏🌻
~ John Fridinger
Talent, OR
Spring, 2023