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There is no time. Period. Have you ever been to the past? Or the future?
Explores the concept of time, arguing that the past and future don't exist and that 'now' is eternal, not a moment in time.
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Key Takeaways
- The past and future do not exist as real places or times we can visit.
- 'Now' is eternal and not measurable within time.
- Time is a mental construct shaped by the mind's perception.
- Our experience of time is a filtered version of an underlying timeless reality.
- Common beliefs about time are assumptions rather than truths.
What the video covers
- The video challenges the common belief in linear time, stating there is no actual past or future.
- It emphasizes that we only think of the past or future in the present moment.
- The 'now' is not a fleeting moment but an eternal presence without duration.
- Time is described as a mental construct created by the mind's limitations.
- The mind acts like a prism, refracting the timeless 'now' into a one-dimensional experience of time.
- The video rejects new age ideas that treat the 'now' as a mere moment between past and future.
- It distinguishes between 'ever-present' now and the concept of 'everlasting' time.
- The video encourages questioning the reality of time as commonly understood.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction to the concept of time
- 00:08Thinking about the past happens in the now
- 00:14The impossibility of visiting the past
- 00:19Time as a belief and common assumption
- 00:36The nature and duration of the now
- 00:49Rejecting the idea of now as a moment
- 01:05Now as eternity, not a moment
- 01:24Mind's role in creating the experience of time
Full Transcript — Download SRT & Markdown
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No, no, no. You think of the past, but you think of the past now.
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Have you ever actually been to the place called the past that you think about?
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No. It's not possible. Nobody's ever been there. It's a belief. It's just a belief that we all take for granted. Is it your experience that the now is moving along a line of time from the past to the future? Is the now moving?
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And how long does the now last? I don't think I've ever measured it. It doesn't. It doesn't last. The now doesn't last in time. There is no time for the now to last in. Now is not a
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moment sandwiched between these two vast spaces. There is no vast space on the side of the now. The now is not a moment. These are new age ideas. They have nothing to do with truth or reality. The now is not a
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moment. Now is eternity. The ever-present, not the everlasting. But when that now is filtered through the limitations of the mind, it appears as time. The mind is like a prism which refracts the now, which has no dimensions,
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into a single dimension of time.
Topics:timenowpastfutureeternitymindperceptionphilosophyconsciousnessreality
