I. Imagined Time

With a rush of familiarity and sometimes a love so intense
      that it borders on pain
Your surroundings
      and the particular circumstances of your Being
            return to you
                  as you open your eyes and again bring into focus
                        that which further thought suggests to you is
Now.

You have worked hard to build such a home.
Even in sleep you handle and rearrange its components
      and constituents
It is on your lips
It is the floor you touch
      the walls against which you press
You teach your children that its dictates and exigencies
Are the only way to live
      and, like you, they may grow up actually willing to despise or kill
            anyone who sees, believes, or lives otherwise.

Consider also
That a Now just as rich and compelling
      called to the consciousnesses of your father and your mother,
            and of it and its facts and details at any instant of their lives
                  you know
Nothing
And that
Each of us has an ongoing Now which,
      unnegated and ununderstood,
            catches and holds fast and convinces
Of its absoluteness, ascendency,
Infinite resolvability,
And inevitability.

But
Being is pure Change
      and Now is an apparency
            of the deceptive seriality of Thought
No less than Past and Future,
And to consciousnesses constrained to Thought
      in such psychological, PastNowFuture Time,
Change
      appears to come from a particular direction
            nevertheless inexplicably unmappable
                  to the compass rose
Because in that particular direction,
      orthogonal to Everywhere,
            lies the subsumption of PastNowFutureTime
                  by the eternal durationlessness
Of BeingTime—
The subsumption of all Apparency
By What Is.

That which Free Mind calls Understanding
      bilaterally maps perception between PastNowFutureTime
            and BeingTime—between
                  the SpaceTimeMatterEnergy Particular
                        of PastNowFutureTime
                              and the SpaceTimeMatterEnergy Aparticular
                                    of BeingTime.
Consciousness that Understands
      perceives that it is ultimately homed in BeingTime,
            moving between BeingTimePerception and its localized working apparency of PastNowFutureTime
                  as necessary for the viability
                        of its containing Creaturehood,
Surfing the Particularity of PastNowFuture in Joy,
      of it
            but neither caught by it nor mired in it;
Suffusing through the Conditionlessness of BeingTime in Gladness,
      of it
            yet neutrally buoyant within it
At once Love,
      Lover,
            Loving,
                  and Beloved
At once Gift,
      Giver,
            Giving,
And Given.

II. Examples of English Usage in PastNowFutureTimePerception as Consciousness Nears the Event Horizon of BeingTimePerception

Answer: Understanding is the bilaterial mapping by Consciousness of localized PastNowFutureTimePerception to and from the field of BeingTimePerception. BeingTimePerception is what J. Krishnamurti referred to as Choiceless Awareness and The Other; BeingTime, as The Ocean. That which is perceived through BeingTimePerception is the unity of Being—what Krishnamurti referred to as What Is, what Laozi referred to as the Dao, what others refer to as The Eternal Now or The Eternal Present. In PastNowFutureTimePerception, the aspect of BeingTime is paradoxical, appearing as both a durationless instant orthogonal to all times and all places and as a measureless, subsuming Silence behind all Thought and enveloping all Particularity. All Being occurs, exists, and unfolds within this Silence, within the eternal durationlessness of BeingTime.

Answer: The superproperty of Consciousness that Understands is Love. That is, Consciousness in BeingTimePerception does not Love or perceive Love, it is Love. Those in BeingTimePerception do not Love or perceive Love; they are Love.

Answer: Understanding is Love mapped to consciousness and perception as they are lived in the field of the deceptive seriality of Thought, the field of imaginary, psychological Time—PastNowFutureTime.

Answer: What psychologist Abraham Maslow termed a peak experience, which involves what he called unitive perception or perception "under the aspect of eternity," is a seemingly involuntary, short-term episode of BeingTimePerception. In the final decade of his life Maslow had begun to speak also of plateau experience—protracted living grounded in unitive or unitary perception. To live grounded in this perception is to live in Understanding—that is, to live grounded in perception of BeingTime.

Answer: Belief is the Creaturehood-strategic, wilful truncation of, and substitution for, perception of What Is by mindmade images. Although the word image implies visuality, images substituted for perception may appear to consist of inputs from a mix of any subset of the senses and any cognitive processes and artifacts. An image may therefore be a picture, a sound, a scent, a memory, a thought, a feeling, a concept, a prejudice, a judgment. Belief clouds PastNowFutureTimePerception and is mutually exclusive with BeingTimePerception. BeingTime is obscured to Consciousness constrained by Belief.

Answer: Emancipation—the freeing or freedness of Mind from its unconsciousness of Virtualization—is groundedness in BeingTimePerception, in What Is.

Answer: Thought is the error signal Brain develops in response to Perceived Difference between External and Internal and between the states of Perceived Now and a projected Desired Now. Thought includes drives produced by creaturehood deficiency (food need, water need, oxygen need, and so on), and operates to reduce itself to zero or a strategic local minimum by driving Creaturehood Action toward reducing Perceived Difference through modification of External, Internal, or both. Thought may strategically invent, amplify, or attenuate drives from Perceived Difference by substituting inputs from imagined or recalled perception for inputs from the physical senses. The Self and PastNowFutureTime are tools of Creaturehood that exist solely in Thought.

Answer: Love is nondual and oppositeless. Its presence does not preclude Fear and legitimate Hate, which are essential survival tools of Creaturehood. Love exists to the preclusion of illegitimate Hate, a panhuman disorder in which resolution of hatred to zero is attempted through Action against a proxy or proxies rather than against its legitimate object(s). As the reflection of Love by What Is is Gladness, so is the only healthy resolution of illegitimate Hate, and an alternative healthy resolution of legitimate Hate, the mourning of Injury, of What Was But Should Not Have Been, in Gladness.

Answer: Duality is Belief through which a human creature compels itself to Become across PastNowFutureTime, to apparently move from one pole of duality (this/that/here/now) to the other pole (not this/not that/there/then).

Answer: To Consciousness constrained to Thought in psychological Time—that is, to Consciousness constrained to PastNowFuturePerception, the hallmark of which is the deceptive seriality of Thought—what appears to be Love is actually strategy for the satisfaction of drives involved in the maintainance of human Creaturehood across entropic Time. The unmistakable hallmark of strategic love is its conditionality: It can come or go, grow or diminish, be bestowed or be withdrawn; it can transmute to illegitimate Hate; it can have and usually does have a particular object, which can please or disappoint, satisfy or dissatisfy. The acceptance and bestowal of strategic love are distinctly different actions that may occur in satisfaction of distinctly different Creaturehood strategies. Consciousness grounded in PastNowFutureTime posits as an ideal, nonexistent ultimate the existence and experience of strategic love unquenchable by dissatisfaction. Love grounded in BeingTimePerception is neither strategic nor ideal; such Consciousness is Love, negating the field of duality that creates the possibility of ultimacy.

Answer: Being asks, and answers, the questions.