Very Important Realization: Time and Space are not ultimately real: only relatively real

Why is this realization important?

Because without this realization you cannot get very far regarding actually becoming enlightened from at least my point of view. So, intellectually understanding this is true even if you don't experience this as the truth yet 24 hours a day.

Imagine a record player and where the needle connects with the groove of the record is actual time. However, you can also move that needle to any other point in time and space as well just as easily as being in what you call the present. So then, literally any time or space becomes the present if you want it to.

However, you do have to be realistic about all this. For example, you can dream about going to Hawaii all your life but until you actually take a plane ride there it won't be real or unless you take a boat there it won't be real.

So, until you actually go there it is only a mental conception in the meantime.

The same is true of being in the now of any time or space in the universe.