Page 135 - Matter: The Other Name for Illusion

Time is a concept that depends on comparing events we have experienced. For example,
someone goes into a room. Later he sees a pen on the floor and bends over to pick it up.
Then, he takes the pen to a table and places it there. The person makes a comparison
between all these actions. He thinks that a space of time has passed between each one
and so the perception of time comes to be.

comparison, the concept of time disappears and the only moment that exists
for you will be the present moment.
For example, a high school graduation ceremony is something in a
person's memory. By comparing other pieces of information in his memory
since the graduation, with the present moment, he forms an idea of time and,

according to the information in his memory, he determines the length or the
shortness of this time. But this sense of length or shortness is completely in his
brain, and comes from this comparison.
In the same way, when someone sees a person bend over to pick up a pen
that he had dropped on the floor and put it on the table, he makes a
comparison. In the moment when the observer saw the person put the pen on
the table, that person's bending over, picking up the pen, walking to the table
are pieces of information in the observer's brain. The perception of time arises
from the comparison of the person putting the pen on the table with these

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