Life Is A Process; Everything Is Equally Real

I think we in general have a certain misconception about life. We see it only from a very narrow bandwidth. We don't see it as the process which it is. We see things only from the perspective of our present standpoint. The viewpoints of our past and future seem less real. If we are sad today, the happiness which we have felt is irrelevant. We have conviction in our present ideals, yet the conviction was equally present in past contradictory ideals, as it will be again for future ones. But the passage of time is illusory in the sense that reality is defined by actuality of experience, and the fact of an actual experience immortalizes it; its reality can never be touched, despite its impermanence.

You are no less who you are today then who you were a year ago. You will be no less you in 10 years. Every single perspective in the timeline of your existence is equally real, and thus equally valid. Attachment to the present manifestation or perspective of your self is, or creates, the illusion. Any aspect of your experience which cannot be said to be universally present throughout all experience, is merely a frozen phase of a process which is perpetually in motion. Its polar opposite, the being that comes into existence through its non-being, is an equally real and valid aspect of this process. Through the inherent reality of all differentiations and polarities, the reality of any given 'specific' is thus invalidated. Time is again an illusion, in the sense that it makes one set of specifics seem truly real, and the others false. Yet in their own place and time, those other specifics are real, and these false. They are all equally real, and thus all equally unreal.

Yet, really all of this is impersonal. You can perhaps see how all of the different phases of your life have an equal reality. But can you see that every perspective that has ever or will ever exist, every individual at every point of his or her life, are equally real? That not only are your experienced aspects of existence real, but every experienced aspect of existence is real. Given that everything which exists is real, reality must be beyond any given 'thing' or aspect. The very fact that a reality other than your present experience truly exists, means that your present experience is not equivalent with reality. It is thus unreal. Is this not the way to detachment with the allowance for full experience of life?