Heloisa to Piet and Rod
Piet,
You
asked me to describe the
sense of timelessness beyond experience
I previously alluded to. I described that state as one of
non-experience,
because, when one is in a clear ever present awareness, suddenly there
is no
separation between the “experiencer” and the “object of experience” One
becomes
one with the event, or one may say, one becomes
the event “seeing itself.” In the act of experience, the clear
awareness
becomes a distant one, for one becomes aware of an I, experiencing the
event.
In a state
of a non-dual clear
awareness. one is aware of an I, as a Witness, or an ever-present Seer.
When
personally experiencing Time, as just Being without a past, present or
future I
felt the immense freedom of being one with it. I no longer had a
history linked
to the past and had no expectations of the future. I was totally and
absolutely
in the moment.
In testing
the working
hypothesis, you alluded to the possibility of playing a game within a
game, in
which we pretend to be timeless awareness. Can we pretend that we are
the
ever-present Witness, effortlessly mirroring the objects as they arise,
without
trying to grasp them or reject them? That must be possible. However, in
trying
to create this exercise, which at first is a purely mental one, are we
not
trying to grasp that experience, and by doing so, losing it?? Please
tell me
how this has been for you.
Heloisa