Living in Eternity, Acting in Time

"During formal meditation with eyes closed, it’s straightforward to see that perceptions arise in the space of what I am. But going about my day, it’s hard to dismiss the sense of localisation. Does that ever disappear? Rupert says: ‘The feeling of being localised doesn’t disappear. It’s not possible to view the world from an unlocalised point of view. If the Buddha sat next to you, he would experience the world from the localised perspective of his body. What goes away is that we no longer derive our identity from the apparent evidence of sense perception. Your understanding has to override that. Imagine you go to bed and dream what you’re experiencing now. You think you’re sitting on the sofa, but you’re actually upstairs asleep. Then you start lucid dreaming – the dream carries on, but you realise you’re not located in dream-time and dream-space. Do the same now. Start lucid waking. You are infinite consciousness. You don’t exist in the time and space your experience seems to be happening in – you exist in eternity. But the only way to have this experience is by localising yourself in this body. You realise you are the entirety of it, not just the body. The subject-object relationship is just a mechanism that enables consciousness to have objective experience. Consciousness lives in eternity but acts in time – one thing, not two.’"

From event 27 February - 01 March, 2026 The Nature of Consciousness – Online Weekend Retreat at Home 27 February–1 March 2026

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