Through Abstract Thinking, We Have Invented Time

Through the mechanism of thought, any happening outside the field of time, past, present and future, in that order is inconceivable. Curiously, the body and all of life - nature - operate in ways other than the ways perceivable or describable, which are the limited functions of thought.

A common mistake is to believe the existence called living can be prepared for and wised up to over time. Hence many are fooled, believing experience (the past) provides understanding or answers to be used and re-used to help live in our day-to-day existence, now.

However, the randomness of living obliterates all security that a past, present, future basis provides for considering and understanding living. If life were as 'time' suggests, now being the result of its past and the future to be the result of now, then surely we'd all have the problems of living worked out swiftly and the result would be an enlightened and secure race of human beings.

But due to the random nature of living, the human races' obsession for security through knowledge (the past of time) is constantly obliterated. Due to our fearful struggle with the uncertainties of living, we oscillate between delusions of grandeur and self-annihilating thoughts, manifesting in the aggressively harmful behaviors that are unique to the human species.

Understanding that there is nothing to understand... You get on with living.

Thought is definitely the most superb instrument for understanding the mechanical functions in the world and from past experiences building on those, such as fixing a car or creating a better one. Philosophy or what someone else works out is great for children's stories but how does it help me to live this random, timeless existence of day-to-day life? It only sharpens the intellectual process and postpones responding to the real demand of living your life.

If thought only operates within the field of time (as I expressed it above) then it is not the instrument to understand the random, timeless event of living. And if thought is the only instrument we have then there is no instrument and no way to understand or conceive the random event of living at all.

Therefore we are left with no alternative but to live our lives as they unfold, just as they are. Then in this, is there anything to understand?

The understanding that there is nothing to understand, nothing to get, nothing more than this life I am living today, ends all searching and fantasy. You then just live rather than think about living.

Do you really think nature (the body) is concerned with knowing? This knowing is only for thought and thought's function is only useful for the mechanical. When applied to the problems of living we develop abstraction and theory but nothing applicable to living.

In respect to living, knowing or not knowing is of no consequence, for living is always something unique. You can never have lived this before, nor will you again, for time and the vast pulsation called living are unrelated. Through abstract thinking we have invented time to hide the disjointed, random, unsecured nature of living. This has resulted in the invention of security and it's opposite. To be secure or insecure requires disconnection from the real demands of your life. Connect with those demands and you won't have time for that debilitating nonsense.