The Dimension that Isn’t

Don’t think about being “in the moment.” A moment is way too long. In a moment, you invent a self, complete with life history, and you invent a whole world in which that self lives. A moment is a very long time.

What is before that moment? Where does the moment come from?

The present.

Notice the freshly-arising, spontaneous present. It is here, empty and new.
It does not last a moment. As soon as it arrives, it is gone and reborn again. Notice this totalness. Sense this emptiness. This is not conceptual, it is not spiritual, and it is not a transcendental idea of the way things work. It is real, and you can prove this to yourself, by looking. It is what you notice when you look for yourself. The present is all you know.

You can’t notice the present with your mind. The mind will try to stretch it out into a “thing” that exists over time. By the time you’ve done that, it’s gone. Your mind can’t see the ever-freshly-arising present. But you can.

Notice this with your being. Notice the present because you are always in it. Notice it with itself.

So how is all this other stuff appearing – the world, the self, the life story? It seems real.

It seems so, but when we look in the present, we can’t find it. The present always arrives empty! But when the mind moves – which it will – that movement creates its own bubble of time, to have someplace to unfold within. All activity and appearance exists only in this bubble of time, created by movement of the mind.

But again we look at the present. A time bubble is not present in the present. The present never ceased being empty. The present never ceased being new. The present never ceased being total. The present is simply this, ever fresh.

You can’t stop the movement of the mind. Time will be created by you as long as you are alive. But you can know this trick, you can be aware of what’s going on. The apparent world and the apparent self exist in another dimension, literally. The present is a single point in which no dimension can exist.

So, who are you?