Yet we must be very careful at this point in our understanding. For this "living in the timeless present," this bare attention to the present moment, has nothing to do with the common psychological trick of just forgetting about yesterday and tomorrow. The mystic is not saying that we should live in the present by forgetting about or trying to ignore the past and future. He is saying that there is No past and future. For the past and future are simply the illusory products of a symbolic boundary superimposed upon the eternal now, a symbolic boundary which appears to split eternity into yesterday vs. tomorrow, before vs. after, time gone vs. time to come. Thus time as a boundary upon eternity, is not a problem to get rid of, but an illusion which doesn't exist in the first place.
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