The Concept Of Time

Question: "Our lives evolve greatly around the concept of time so is time something that is Real?"

Answer: "I find this a very interesting question, because I know that I am writing this at 9:41 in the morning :-). We surely do put a lot of confidence in time and it feels as if it is something permanent and ultimate, but is it so? Again we have to return to our perception of the outside world, because only by turning to ourselves we can find the truth!

Let's take two persons for example: John, who is enjoying himself at sea, comes home saying: "Oh, it went by so fast!" The other person, Kim, who is at the same time at school sitting and writing, says: "Oh, the time is going so slow today. When will this stupid day end?"

So yes, theoretically, both John and Kim spent the same amount of time doing different things, but if you ask John it went by so fast, while for Kim everything went so slow. We all experience situations like those of John and Kim in every second of our lives and so we see that this concept of time is real only in the material world, because it actually only describes the unmistakable flow of day and night, summer and winter, in terms of hours.

Take a look at your watch, everything goes in circles and it is in the same position two times a day! We see that only our western date determines where in this big circle we are, because it tries to create a linear line out of this circle. We started at year 0 and now we are in the year 2009, while in reality there was nothing else, but a lot of never ending circles (day-night, winter-summer, life-death, happy-unhappy, hungry-full, ...).

So, if we look beyond the material world, we can clearly see that only our state of mind determines if time is moving fast or slow or is moving at all. In reality there is no time - our consciousness is not bound by time and space and it is only through our perceptions that we create time and space."

How fast is a thought?