time out of linear mind

still (both meanings: unmoving and enduring)

flowing

stillflowing: beyond contradiction

over the stones in the stream

Photo: Robert Zunikoff/Unsplash

Traditional peoples around the world had a different relation with time than our relation to dominant modern time.

We can experience both quantifiable linear and boundless non-directional temporality.

time as a

a commodity to be managed

or

an ever-present transience

both efficient in their own ways: flowing forms within the formless timeless whole

navigating by linear past/present/future: one directional time

as well as

fullness going out in all directions becoming singular being totally ‘in the moment’

when keeping time by discrete units of measure and beats

we can still can be with what is — the boundless is-ness always arising

or from an earthly perspective

revolving like the phases of the moon

be with me

you died a long ago and were reborn