It's an interesting perspective -- and certainly well-founded in traditional metaphysical philosophy.
But my question is, does that perspective impel you to engage in the world in order to bring about positive change? Or is it conducive to inertia and allowing the world to pass you by?
The problem with the traditional spiritual paths that teach the realization of timeless oneness is that they don't teach you how to come back and make use of that for the good of all humanity. And that cannot mean simply the bodhisattva vows because if all of humanity were illuminated but disengaged the world would cease its creative motion.
But we know the nature of the universe is to expand, to evolve. So how can our nature be to disengage from that developmental process?
One way of looking at timelessness is that either the evolutionary process -- of which our consciousness is a manifestation -- continues endlessly, thus obviating the construct of time, or it doesn't and we cease to be around to observe the passage of time, also obviating its use to us.
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