There’s a way of experiencing life that most of us take for granted. We call it consciousness. It feels normal, obvious, baseline. But it’s actually only half the story. 

Time Full Mind — The Everyday Lens

Time Full mind is what we usually think of as consciousness. It shows up the moment we focus on anything as separate from everything else. A scent. A sound. A thought. A political opinion you really wish you didn’t read online. In that instant there is: Someone noticing and Something being noticed. Subject. Object. Two. This is the structure of Time Full mind. It organizes reality into beginnings, middles, and endings. It measures, compares, judges, names, labels, and files everything into neat little mental storage bins. It is always asking: “What is this?” “How does it relate to me?” “Where did it come from?” “Where is it going?” Time Full mind depends on contrast. Up/Down Good/Bad Sacred/Ordinary Enlightened/Traffic-jam-furious-goblin-mode-me It’s wonderfully creative and deeply magical. It paints the entire dream of reality through the lens of time. But here’s the twist: 

Time Full Mind is Not the Source

Time Full mind is not the ultimate ground of awareness. It is the fruit of something deeper: A vast, unbounded, silent, awake presence that never moves, never changes, never begins, never ends. Call it: Awareness Primordial Knowing The Open Field The Heart of Being or simply… Time Less mind. Time Less mind is always here. Before thought. Before perception. Before “me.” It does not split reality into subject and object. It doesn’t measure or compare. It doesn’t enter time at all. It is the boundless space in which consciousness appears — the way the sky holds clouds without ever becoming one. 

Why Time Full Mind Can’t See Time Less Mind

Here’s the cosmic joke: Time Full mind cannot recognize Time Less mind directly… because it is already made of it. Like a fish trying to discover water using a snorkel and a clipboard. Time Full mind looks outward. Time Less mind simply is. So Time Full mind — doing what it does — keeps qualifying and quantifying experience. It organizes reality into stories and identities and spiritual goals: “I am here.” “I will awaken someday.” “I was unenlightened yesterday but I’m trending upward.” Cute. Endearing. Exhausting. 

The Turning Point

At some point, Time Full mind begins to notice its own limitations. It sees that: Everything it grasps dissolves. Every identity shifts. Every moment slips through its fingers like sand. And something softens. Not through force. Not through belief. But through humility. Time Full mind begins to suspect: “There is something prior to me.” And in that recognition… it relaxes. It stops trying to engineer awakening like a home-improvement project. And in that quiet… Time Less mind shines through — not as an experience, not as a state, but as the ground of everything. 

Oneness

Oneness isn’t achieved. It isn’t learned. It isn’t earned through merit badges or incense smoke. It is the simple recognition that: There was never a separation to begin with. Time Full mind dances. Time Less mind is the space in which the dance occurs. Two-yet-not-two. Movement and stillness. Wave and ocean. And the beautiful news? You’ve never left it. You can’t leave it. You are it. Even when you’re cranky in line at the grocery store. Especially then.