In this short clip, non-duality teacher Rupert Spira argues that time is not something the “now” moves through. Pressing a questioner on how many separate “nows” they have ever experienced, he concludes there is only one now and that it has no duration. Spira frames the now as eternity or the “ever-present”, and treats the idea of a passing “present moment” as a new-age notion rather than a description of reality.
Transcript
There is no time. Okay. Period. Is it your experience that the now is moving along a line of time from the past to the future? Is the now moving? No, it's now. Now. Now. [music] Well, how many nows are there? If you say it's the now and now and now, like how many nows have you experienced during this meeting? >> it. That's when it's now, right? Yes, but how many nows have you experienced, for instance, during this meeting? >> Only one. And today? And in your life? Only one. And how long does the now last? [music] I don't think I've ever measured it, but >> It doesn't last. The The now doesn't last in time. There is no time for the now to last in. Now is not a moment sandwiched between these two vast spaces. [music] There is no vast space either side of the now. The now is not a moment. We hear about them staying in the present moment, things like that. These These are new age ideas. They have nothing to do with with truth or reality. The Now is not a moment. Now is eternity, the ever present, not the everlasting.