Alan Watts said that he has realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. I say they are all illusions. Even the present does not exist.
Look at this handstand and I will prove that there is no such thing as a present moment. You keep pressing with hands to reach with feet and you keep reaching with feet to root through hands. Right? As you press AND lift at the same time, you have a perfect ongoing balance and ease.
We can look at pressing into the ground with hands as the past, and reaching up with feet to the sky as future. But according to this handstand, the past and the future have to keep a continuous operation and intermingling so that the present can happen and make sense. Right?
If there is no pressing there won’t be lifting. If there is no lifting there won’t be pressing. If there is no lifting AND pressing at the same time, there won’t be a handstand at all - no present moment. So, the past, the present, and the future are all a 'one happening'. There is no separate past, a separate future, or a separate now. They are all one and all together have no name. Right? If you disagree, try naming all those three together.
If you can separate any of them and name them, then they do exist. But even if they did, (which is not possible - but that's another story) what would rooting do without flying? It could not exist by itself. There has to be a past for the future to exist. There has to be a future for the past to exist. So we can’t separate them because separately they are nothing.
If you can’t separate them then you can’t name them, then they do not exist. Only ego created separation creates a materialistic manifestation, (and there is no such thing as a separate thing) that means there is no manifestation. It's all flying together at all times. So the idea that there is anything at all IS the illusion.
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