Space Without Distance, Time Without End

By Michael Erlewine

Out on the vast plain of ordinary consciousness, where everything is the same and equal, there is no direction to go because we are already there, meaning here and now. There is no place to be other than here that I know of, and we are there now. And we are always right there.

Learning to live without a differential, without any way of measuring difference, I have written of this before. Nothing has changed, meaning nothing has not changed from being nothing.

Of course, the sand of time keep running through my fingers. And here I am, still walking out to the edge of nowhere to look at nothing. It’s still there.

I am always habitually looking for difference, some way to measure time and space, I come up empty. Emptiness is everywhere the same. I have to stop looking.

There is nothing to find and nowhere to go because, as mentioned, I am already there by virtue of being right here. There is no more or any other kind of “more.”

“Enough or too much” as the poet William Blake put it.

‘Too much ‘is anything more than enough and enough itself fills me to overflowing. It’s all I can feel or measure. Overflow is just that, more than enough. Beyond that we don’t know and can’t see a difference. This is no more difference.

As mentioned, I’m not going anywhere because I’m already there. And that’s a puzzler. I’ve come to a standstill if only because I am here now.

I’ve arrived at the here and now, yet the here and now is not a place to go to because, as mentioned, we are already there, but rather an endless process that frustrates any desire we have by absorbing it, bringing it back to rest, to zero. Who would have guessed that?

And it’s not a place to be because there ‘IS’ no place to be, nothing permanent, no end because there was no beginning, never a starting point. We have yet to begin, so we can’t end up. That’s the confusion.

Because this is beginningless, it is endless. It just IS, without beginning or end!

How on Earth did we get here? We got here by the exhaustion of direction in any direction. We are at a standstill, again meaning in a process, not a static place.

We just ARE and it just IS, both nothing that is and nowhere. Space without distance. Time without being or end.

Where do we go from here? Nowhere. And this is because, as mentioned, we are already there. And what is there to do? Nothing.

As the great Mahasiddha Tilopa said, “Rest As It Is.”

[Midjourney graphic prompted by me.]

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May those without it now create it,

May those who have it not destroy it,

And may it ever grow and flourish.