Sometimes, the simplest object is the one that does not serve to understand the whole.
To understand reality, it is essential to understand the mechanism by which conditions work. And before that in basic understand time as a subjective effect of conditionality.
From our privileged point of view of observers of the universe, we see how time goes by regularly, without frights. Let's look where we look, that time is the same. Our clock is always on time and, from our point of view, the time is fixed, stable and it may even seem real to us. Moreover, a part of Physics uses it as an immovable dimension.
But what we see is not the now of what we see. We see the past of what moves away and the future of what is approaching. Our watch continues homogenously marking the seconds, but what we see, let's look where we look are watches that are out of kilter.
If we put ourselves in another point of the Universe, the same thing will happen. I look at your past, and you look at mine, even if we are millimeters away.
Time is just my time because I am an observer. If there were no spectators there would not be time.
The past, the present and the future are available to different observers, to whom we can not have access. All the time is there, but we only see one frame of the movie.
Intuitively it seems to us that "time passes", which is not true. We are the ones who change the point of observation. The same as when we look through the window of a train. We are surprised at how fast the trees are running. And the houses ... But neither the trees nor the houses move.
So it is with reality.
Everything is out there. All. And everything is static.
And here I return to the simile of the film. In the film is everything, the approach, the knot and the outcome. All. And when we start to see it, the principle did not happen at the beginning, nor the knot is made and it will end in an end. No. The movie is sold to you entirely, and you only do it sequentially. If you believe the movie, if you think you are the character, then you believe that time exists.
However, if you look at it from the outside nothing happens. Everything is done. Everything is there. You are just an observer who brings your time, like popcorn, and you consume it while you watch the movie.
The time is yours. And nobody else. It really is your illusion and nobody else's.
But we can even put ourselves from the right place to understand the universe, which is none other than from the point of view of a photon.
For the photon, the Universe is static, totally static because it is a point. A miserable dimensionless point, and this is so because the photon seems to us that it "travels" at the speed of light, C, so that its time is zero. Your watch is stopped. For millions of kilometers traveling, it does not move.
A point is unable to move within itself. It's stupid. The point is static by definition, as is the Universe.
Samsara is similar to a DVD video movie. It is always the same. It is static, fixed. But we have copies distributed to each one of the observers. Without observers the Samsara does not wander, it is the spectators who roam the Samsara. Each one watching the movie at a certain moment, none sees the same, even if it is the same movie. There are observers who see it from one point and others from another, for more or less time.
Since free will is another illusion, everything we do, say and think is conditioned, chained to the film.
But the matter goes even further.
In Algebra the point is a really fascinating object. Although it is dimensionally small, it is in itself a vector space with the same properties as any space of any number of dimensions.
But there is more.
The point represents the emptiness of dimensionality. This is so, because all spaces of any number of dimensions are based on the point. There is no space without a point, nor with infinite dimensions, that is, the point conditions all the dimensionality.
If the whole Universe does not occupy more than a point ... in a line there will be an Aleph1 of Universes, in a plane an Aleph2, in a space an Aleph3 ...
Dimensions down, dimensions up.
Nothing is more conditioned than a recorded film.