Sometimes you don't quite grasp what I mean when I say the world is fiction, for it is very real to you. Most of the time, it's not clear to you that the world is illusion because you are so immersed in it. The fact is: it is real to you. But that does not make it real.
Rather than thinking of the world as fiction or illusion, you may like to think of it as a game. Of course, games are taken seriously, but that does not mean they are serious. Certainly, your investment in games is serious enough all right.
The life you live is fiction. It is a story made up as you go along. And the rules of the game change. The story changes, and all of it is made up. Others may see the same story you do, but that just means that they are reading it too. Neither majority nor minority is true. All of it is an idea. All of it is fictive.
Time, for instance, that illusion that governs you. You may wonder how can I say time doesn't exist? How can I say it's illusion? How can I say it's a game when it directs so many aspects of your life?
Does not the arbitrary switch to standard and daylight savings time tell you that time is a man-made fancy? Someone says that it is now a different time when the clock chimes. Time is a story that changes.
Furthermore, what reality is there in saying that nonexistent time is different in different places in the world? It is the same time in Hong Kong as it is in Texas. Time on the east coast is the same as time on the west coast. One place isn't a day earlier or later any more than one place is a minute earlier or later. Whatever is going on, it is at the same moment for everyone, regardless of what the clock says about it, regardless of whether it is the sun or the moon that shines in the sky. The gong strikes timelessness.
This is the same moment everywhere in the world! Creation didn't begin earlier here and later here or there. It was all at once everywhere!
Let's face it. Time is simply a man-made fancy, one substantiated by one scientific discourse or another. Fiction is studied, evidenced, proven perhaps in depth, yet it is still fiction. Timelessness is not revolutionary. Nor does it revolve around anything.
At this moment all exists regardless of calendars. Time cannot be organized because time does not exist. Is it not fleeting, this so-called time? It is so fleeting it never existed.
Space and time are the same fiction, just turned around. One is topsy-turvy on the other.
Maps don't make space more real. They just demark the illusion very neatly. Time and space are pastimes! Or perhaps they are the playground you play in. Perhaps they are a fort you made, or a treehouse, or a picture you drew on a wall.
Time and space are divisions made of the wholeness that is indivisible.
You are not rowers on those bygone ships where one slave struck the gong, telling the rowers when to row. Synchronicity and coherence are fine, but they are mandates of consciousness. You certainly were not designed to be slaves to time and space.
In the relative world, a king is a slave to the place his body happens to reside in.
And you who set your life according to your watch are subservient to a ticking hand on a watch face that someone said was correct. That time marches on is a fallacy, for time doesn't exist, so how can it march?
I would like to remind you of the power of your thoughts.