Nisargadartta Maharaj: A Meditation on Continuity

Here is a dialogue from the famous book, I am That, by Nisargadatta Maharaj, 65: A Quiet Mind is All You Need:

Q:  Does not the knower know itself?

M:  The mind is discontinuous.  Again and again it blanks out, like in sleep or swoon, or distraction.  There must be something continuous to register discontinuity.

Q:  The mind remembers.  This stands for continuity.
M:  Memory is always partial, unreliable and evanescent.  It does not explain the strong sense of identity pervading consciousness, the sense of  'I am'. 

Find out what is at the root of it.

A Meditation on Continuity:

Life seems continuous.
What gives us this impression?
Is it memory, recollection that creates the illusion of time passing?
Or is it something much more fundamental, more basic?

The very ground of being is conscious awareness.
This is the only continuous element.

It is the mistaken belief that the a collection of events, brought forward as memory in the present, and, as the present, creates the impression of a timeline, but look carefully.

What is the only thing that is consistent across all events? Certainly not the events themselves? They are "arisings" in the now.

The appearance of "things' is nothing more than:

 "Eternity in love with the production of time." William Blake.

They are not even arising.

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