For example, there's a car parked up. Someone gets in and drives it down the road, where it pulls over and stops again. The car starts and stops, right? Wrong. It only seems to start and stop. When the car is parked up it is only relatively still in relation to the ground it is on. The car and the ground it sits on are never still. The planet is always spinning. The galaxy is always swirling. The universe is always in motion.

 

The car only seems to be stopped. Someone gets in and seems to start its motion down the road. But it was always in motion. Driving down the road gave it further motion relative to the ground and its environment. It seems to stop again, but really its motion has slowed relative to the ground, but not truly stopped.

 

Consider the car parked up through the day. The sun rises in the morning, shining down on the car. The sun passes over the car and descends beyond the horizon, leaving the car sat there in darkness. But this isn't really what's happening. The sun isn't rising and falling. The planet is spinning. The car is moving relative to the sun, not the other way around. We know this, but don't necessarily take the following step of recognising that everything is moving and nothing ever stops.

 

Why is this important? Well, it's important to shake out of the general misconception of the world, that things begin and end. Beginnings and endings are illusory. There is no true starting or stopping. Nothing has a beginning or end. There are no 'things'. There is only What Is. We cannot define what exists here. The universe isn't really divided into separate things. You cannot truly define yourself. You have no beginning or end. It only seems that there is a limited you that starts and stops, that begins and ends. The world is a play of reflection of the Indivisible Infinite.

 

This is the illusion of the world. It's topsy turvy. It's reflected. What seems to be is not what really is. It's not what it appears to be. The sun doesn't move relative to the planet. It's the other way around. We can explore this further. The world "out there" is really perceived "in here". The building in the distance, the car down the street, the far-off mountain, are all perceived right here. The sense of time, of yesterday and tomorrow, is only ever perceived right now. Changing time is always now. Distance is always here.

 

Ultimately, we don't really move. We perceive motion, but it is the reflection of the Stillness from where we are perceiving. All motion is perceived from a place of Stillness. Well, it's not even a place. All places are perceived from placeless Stillness. All apparent motion of starting and stopping, or even continual motion, is perceived right here and now, in the placeless motionless place. We are That in which the universe appears. We are That out of which the universe is made. We are That which perceives the universe as not separate from itself. There is only That.