Time flies...or does it?
I am really bad at pondering time. While I am fairly punctual and grasp that kind of time, I struggle with every movie or book that involves time travel or advanced notion of relative time. The more time I spend with the topic, the less it unravels. And I wonder how this integrates into a spiritual practice... In general, there is psychological or individually felt time. And then there is physical, maybe even universal time. Let's look at them. Psychological time is my felt sense of how quickly something moves from being object of expectation (future) to being an object of awareness (presence) to being an object of memory (past) [see Ricard/Thuan]. This seems very intuitive. Meditation is all about steadying your mind in the presence or the Now, therefore cutting out all the niftly little stories that your ego has authored about the past (all the unjust badness that has happened to you) or the future (all the evil that will most certainly come your way soon). In the presence, there...