Space-Time Is A Gift We Give Ourselves, Not A Prison We Live Within.
I always remind myself that space-time is a gift we give to ourselves, not a commodity to sell or a stick with which to beat ourselves up. All that we perceive is a perception of space-time that our minds make a story out of as if we were a separate object in space-time. But in reality, space-time is an appearance of "no-thing" reality. We are not an appearance of it. Understanding this, we are liberated from the belief that space-time consists of separate objects, and we do not "space-time" ourselves. If we were to "space-time" ourselves, then we impose the meaning onto what appears as if it is a separate object. This meaning influences how we perceive and sense space-time, coming to feel and perceive it as a separate object. We have to re-educate ourselves to understand that what we have called objective space-time is an illusion and is really just this no-thing reality we are seeing through our mind as a pattern or form. Then, we can be liberated from "space-timing" the self.
As the Non-Dual teacher Francis Lucille states: "To understand intellectually that we are not a psycho-physical entity in the process of becoming is a necessary first step, but this understanding is not sufficient. The fact that we are not the body must become an actual experience that penetrates and liberates our muscles, our internal organs and even our cells. An intellectual understanding that corresponds to a sudden, fleeting recognition of our true nature brings us a flash of pure joy, but when we have full knowledge that we are not the body, we are that joy."
In my meetings in Naturally Being and in my book, I share what I can to help us all understand not just intellectually but genuinely feel we are not a separate object existing in space-time. My approach is to deal with not just our thinking mind but our experience of the sensory feelings of the body, too.
Love,
Freyja
See more about the approach taken here: https://www.naturallybeing.one/approach