Posts Tagged ‘uncovering’

“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
~ Ecclesiastes 1:9 *

Tao and Zen
are NOW,
not then.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

Everything’s NOW,
So nothing is new.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

“I have realized that the past and future are illusions,
that they exist in the present,
which is what there is and all there is.”
~ Alan Watts

“People .. who believe in physics,
know that the distinction between past, present, and future
is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
~ Albert Einstein

Time is how we measure NOW,
and spaces
are for places where we think we are in time.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

Life is NOW or never,
Life is NOW forever.
Life is NOW
Ever NOW
Never then.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings

What’s New?

“There is nothing new under the sun.”*

Everything’s NOW,

So nothing is new.

Discovering is but uncovering –

Timeless Truth.

Ron’s audio recitation of “What’s New?”

Ron’s reflections on “What’s New?”

Dear Friends,

The above verses, sutras, and quotations offer uncommon answers to a common worldly question, “What’s New?”.   

After my midlife awakening I wondered whether past and future are mere mental illusions occurring in the eternal NOW.  And I concluded that from a cosmic perspective, Einstein was right about space/time/reality – that

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one”; that “the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”; and, that  “space and time are not conditions in which we live, [but] modes in which we think.”

Amazing synchronicities about illusion of serial time

In February, 1977, I spent a miraculously transformative week in New York City, so filled with amazing synchronicities and precognitive experiences, that I became convinced it was possible to mystically transcend serial time perception; but that while on Earth we must experience our lives serially, even though there is no time cosmically.  (See e.g. An Amazing Experiment With Time)

Since then – while still experiencing serial time – I’ve begun seeing earth-life like a perpetual play of universal consciousness on the world’s “stage” – with continuing ‘performances’ of perennial story plots, only featuring different players, acts and scenes.  And I’m now mostly experiencing this lifetime like a pre-scripted movie filled with constant synchronicities.

Inspired by these mystical perspectives, I’ve composed and shared the foregoing verses and sutra sayings.

Dedication

These writings are dedicated to inspiring our ever growing happiness and peace of mind, as we evolve beyond serial time toward timeless Being as eternal Universal Awareness.

Thus may we increasingly live moment by moment in the timeless NOW, accepting “what is” as the inevitable consequence of ever mysterious karmic causes and conditions.

And so shall it be!

Ron Rattner

*Footnote re Ecclesiastes 1:9

The above intuitive interpretation of Ecclesiastes 1:9 is inconsistent with some theological interpretations. Those who disagree are free to reject it.