Decay and the Appearance of Time

You said time only seems to exist when we think, but I never experience anything getting younger. Even when we don’t think, things fall apart. Is decay just conditioning? Rupert says: ‘Anything that exists, or seems to exist, appears – it arises from being, it exists briefly, and it subsides into being. So, when we look at the arising of something, and when we look at the subsiding of that thing, they appear differently. The subsiding of something into being appears as decay, the arising of something from being appears as growth. It appears as time to a finite mind. In reality, nothing is born and nothing dies. Why? Because all there is in reality is the ever-present screen. That which is, never ceases to be. And that which is not, never comes into existence. The appearance and disappearance, growth and decay, birth and death, these are all of the mind.’

From event 30 August - 06 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025

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