Is Change a Part of Time?

When we think of change we think of a goal.  I am this and I want to be that.  I am here and I want to be elsewhere.  I am poor and I want to be rich.  I am unhappy and I want to be happy.  To move from one place to another (psychologically) seems to take time.  But is time really an element of change?  Or is their something happening to us psychologically that delays change or creates the illusion of change.  If you read this Blog you will have read a much repeated line...."Change is in the moment or not at all".

A person can readily understand this statement on a superficial level.  But what is the deep psychological significance of realizing this in ones own moment of awareness?  It is possible to see something quite enlightening about oneself if you can realize change without desiring change.  Desired change takes time and quite frankly never happens as a reality of the moment. The Illusion of "knowing" creates the projection of desired change but not the reality of it.  So you see it is a kind of mind game that we play with ourselves.  We actually "live" the mind game and we repeat it over and over again.  We wonder why we cannot get there.   Some of us are clever, we create a game plan and involve others in desired change.  We organize in order to "get things done", to make a statement through numbers.  And though there may be some sought after alterations, it is always just a modification of what was.  Real change seems to escape the moment of intention.

Time is the illusion.  That there is a necessity for a period of elapsed time to occur between what is the moment and what could be or should be the moment.  One must face the fact that we largely live in the illusion of a conceptual reality.   Actual reality takes a conscious effort to negate the dream world and live in what is.  Time is our escape and failure to face a manufactured reality that limits change.  This is why it is very apparent that you cannot desire change and "arrive" at the reality of it.  Because firstly you must have the realization that the mind psychologically does not really want change because change represents the unknown.  The mind is caught in fear of change, of the unknown.  Our survival instinct wants the repetition of the known, what we "know" is safe, because it has already been experienced.  It seems comfortable and familiar, therefore why change?  To change in this very moment is "dangerous" to a mind that is caught in the illusion of a self that "knows".  A conservative mind is a dead one.  It lives in constant fear of losing what was, the illusion of a projected past.
So if you truly live in the moment then change is the only reality.  It is living in the reality of the moment.  The moment dictates what is and what is, is the new and never before from moment to moment.  It is the mind that cannot be defined, the mind that realizes the intelligence of spontaneous change and of living that change.