Awareness, in other words:
“We know what time is, we know what space is, we know what experience is. How could we know these things if we did not, in some way, also know what timeless, spaceless, experienceless means? Can we know white without reference to black? dark without reference to light? We know impermanence because in some way we “know” permanence. This permanence is not an experience in time and space. It is not a condition. It does not belong to existence because existence is in time and space.
It is essentially nothing, yet in some way, we refer to this nothingness very often. It is the background from which we function. It has nothing to do with succession, with past and future. It is causeless and cannot be born…when this timeless awareness from which we function unconsciously becomes aware – aware of itself – then we know that what we are is timeless and spaceless. We know what life is, and it does not enter our mind to even think of death because we live knowingly in this timeless background, in the now, and succession is only an expression of this now.”
~ Jean Klein: Listening.
