Unstance

Don't tell me this just now just happened,

because, right now, is it the same thing?

Nothing happens because the results are

eventually lost in time. There is only

circumstantial proof that anything has

happened. The fact that there is only

circumstantial proof that UFOs exist, 

that they appear and disappear, is an

indication of a higher degree of mastery

over phenomenon than humans have.

Maybe they know nothing ever happens.

Taking a stand is declaring that you think

something is real and substantial...

especially weird if it's a thought or belief.

Like a rattle snake handler, we believe 

we won't get bit, that we are protected.

At least, that's the dream.

The timelessness of the present moment

is all we can know. It is connected to the

past and future, but it is neither of those.

If the past is still happening, it's happening

now. If the future is to happen, it starts now.

Stasis gives time a chance to ripen. That's 

called "the accomplishment of all actions."

Time and space ripen together because

they are not separate things. Beings are

also space.

The other part of experience...the part we

tend not to be aware of....is emptiness. 

Emptiness is the part of experience that

provides the space for experience. If 

everything was real, nothing would change.

Instead, change always is happening, 

because emptiness means that things get

real only momentarily. The sidewalk we hit

when we jump from the building won't 

always be there. The earth won't always be 

there. How many times has the Big Bang

happened? 

linear time is a hoax that solidifies our

experience of time so that our lives can

have some continuity...some meaning.

All the wise men know that if time shows 

anything, it shows that experience is 

cyclical. That's why when a calligrapher

makes a circle, it includes everything.

"What goes around comes around" is a

common phrase when things don't go our

way. When we do reach our goal, it's never

what we thought it would be like because

mental constructs never jibe with reality. 

We want to know, but we feel we're missing

something, which is the emptiness. When 

we can experience the emptiness as well 

as the impermanent, relative reality, the

picture begins to clarify. The only thing we 

have to conquer is the certainty of our own

minds.