It is always now.

We find ourselves stuck in the present moment. It is impossible to go anywhere else. All experience that has or will ever take place will occur in the present.

Try to reach into the past. All you get is thought, experienced now. The future is just as elusive—all you get is projection, but projection happening now.

The conventional understanding of time is a series of moments stitched together, forming a continuous dimension along which we perceive things.

But, when does this moment end? When does the next moment start? Attend to your direct experience.

Some objects (of experience) are static. Other objects change. Objects that change are still considered one object because there is a set of intelligible rules that govern the change. These objects change across time. Nothing can exist in two different forms at the same time (this would be one form). Basically, any system (object plus rules that govern govern behavior) necessitates time to explain itself. So time is like a mental tool.

Time seems so self-evidently real. It is part of the waters we swim in. But when we put it under a magnifying glass—we cannot find it in our experience. It breaks down and starts to feel made up. It is kind of like grasping at sand. You are left with notions of what time may be. You never get the thing in itself.