... a conceptual emptiness/Now

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Nisargadatta , " Grant " <g-ssummerville wrote:

 

> ... You're denying any idea of a future event or a past

> event. What you're saying is, just consider the present.

> Whatever happens in the present, that's what happens.

>

> Yes, indeed. In other words, what we think horizontally

> as something happening in the course of time is

> precisely something happening in each present moment.

> Not just what you are doing, but all over the world at

> any present moment. Whatever is happening through the

> billions of body-mind mechanisms is precisely what the

> functioning of Totality is at that time, including all

> the good deeds, including all the evil deeds, including

> the earthquakes and the floods, the wars, the battles,

> everything.

>

> So, that way you can do away with the whole concept of

> time.

>

> Which I believe is precisely what science is coming to.

> At one of the talks there was a mathematician, and he

> said that ultimately Einstein came to the conclusion

> that space and time do not exist. Don't take my word for

> it, or any other mystic. This mathematician has gone

> into that matter about Einstein very deeply and he said

> ultimately Einstein had to come to the conclusion that

> this space-time is not real, that space-time is only a

> concept, a conceptual mechanism necessary for this

> manifestation to take place, for three dimensional

> objects to be projected in space and perceived in time.

> If space-time is conceptual, and space-time is a

> necessary mechanism, what does it make of manifestation,

> but also a concept? And therefore the human being as

> part of that manifestation is also a conceptual

> emptiness. ...

 

Conversations with Ramesh S. Balsekar

 

Yeah...

 

If " Now " is taken as what is actual, then space and time

are only virtual.

 

Further, if Now is actual then all appearance is merely

virtual (which is to say conceptual). That there is a

person in the room (or not) is virtual/conceptual, not

actual.

 

As the virtual nature of all phenomena comes progressively

to be realized (not necessarily sudden)... the nature of

appearance comes to be progressively more subtle and fluid,

taking on an almost diaphanous quality. Appearance continues

to " appear " , but as it comes to be realized as inherently

virtual, or empty, any sense of solidness to things gives

way to appearance of a fluid, dynamic " field " that does not

" resolve out " into distinct entities as such, but rather

remains indeterminate as a dynamic interplay of all appearance.

 

Such indeterminacy as dynamic interplay of all appearance

can be termed " Now " .