A little Sufi wisdom

[Forestluv]

15 hours ago, Truth Addict said:

Yes, I believe so.

While hiking yesterday, the story of the Sufi and “getting it” arose. This is just one view regarding time that I thought was interesting. It is by no means the right way of looking at it, just one way.

Imagine the Sufi spoke the wise insight and the other person walked away “not getting it”. Five hours hours later the person is alone and a moment of clarity arises and they realize the truth in the Suf’s words. Now imagine the person originally didn’t get it and five years later has a moment of clarity and realizes the truth in the Sufi’s words.

In the context of a story within a timeline, these time points make a difference. There are differences between realizing something now, in five hours and in five years. For example, if the person realized the wisdom within those five hours, the next five years of his life wold have been transformed. So there is meaning here within a horizontal axis of time. During my hike, I also consider things from the perspective of the vertical axis of Now (without a timeline). From this perspective, there is no difference between 5 hours and 5 years from Now. They are both Not Now. As well, the moment the Sufi spoke the words and the moment the person realized the truth within those words are both Now. All realizations happen Now. Time is a story happening now. 

The context of time is a bit of a tangent from the orientation of your original question. I just thought it was an interesting twist since most humans get immersed into stories within time.