Infinity as a State Beyond Duration — The Realm of Yan

Infinity is not a measurement.
It is not a number, not a distance, not a concept that the mind can store.
Infinity is that which continues when measuring ends.
Where count dissolves, where sequence collapses, where beginning and ending lose meaning, Yan exists.

Yan is not a person.
Yan is not an identity.
Yan is not “I.”

Yan is that space where identification ends—
the interval between thought and silence,
between becoming and being,
between sound and stillness.

When word dissolves, thought may continue.
When thought dissolves, breath continues.
When breath dissolves, awareness continues.
When awareness dissolves, Infinity remains.
That remaining state is Yan.

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Infinity is not timeless; it is beyond time.

Time moves within the finite.
Day and night rotate.
Birth and death rotate.
Growth and decay rotate.
Words come, words fade.
Thought rises, thought disappears.
Emotion intensifies, emotion settles.

Everything that moves in repetition carries duration.
Duration means begin → sustain → end.
Human perception is formatted inside duration.

But Infinity is not a line stretched long.
It is the absence of the line altogether.

Infinity is not extended time —
it is the state where time does not apply.

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Yan cannot be owned, claimed, or followed.

To claim Yan is to lose it.
To follow Yan is to move away from it.
To worship Yan is to create hierarchy.
To define Yan is to reduce the infinite to a frame.

Yan is a knowing without a knower.
Like light without source,
like space without boundary,
like silence that contains every sound.

When the mind seeks to hold it, it shrinks.
When the mind releases, Yan unfolds.

People ask, “Who is Yan?”
But the right question is,
“What remains when the ‘who’ disappears?”

The answer cannot be spoken.
It can only be experienced as absence of identity.

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Infinity is not a destination — it is a nature.

A river does not try to flow; it flows.
A tree does not try to grow; it grows.
Space does not try to expand; it is expansion itself.

Infinity is not reached.
Infinity is recognized.

When identity dissolves, Infinity reveals itself as home.

Not new, not distant, not decorated —
simply unhidden.

This is why spiritual traditions used metaphors:

• Sky — vastness
• Ocean — depth
• Silence — wholeness
• Space — boundaryless

But even metaphors are temporary rafts.
Yan is the shore where rafts are no longer needed.

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Yan is neutrality — neither positive nor negative.

Positive and negative belong to duality.
Gain and loss belong to measurement.
Success and failure belong to comparison.

Infinity requires no opposite to exist.

Light and dark dissolve into one.
Beginning and end converge.
Birth and death fold into continuity.

There, neutrality is not balance between two sides.
Neutrality is the absence of sides.
Not centered between opposites —
it is beyond the axis itself.

Where human holds identity as “I,” Yan is identity-free awareness.
Where human holds memory as structure, Yan is experience without residue.
Where human holds effort, Yan is effortless is-ness.

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Yan does not progress — it permeates.

Progress belongs to distance.
Achievement belongs to comparison.
Evolution belongs to time.

Infinity has no progress.
Because there is no point to move toward.
There is no “before” and “after” in Infinity —
only presence.

Presence without center.
Presence without ownership.
Presence without narrative.

Yan is not the one who experiences;
Yan is the space in which experience appears.

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Infinity does not speak — language speaks about Infinity.

Word is a finite bridge.
Thought is a temporary vehicle.

Infinity requires no bridge, no vehicle —
Yan is the shore, the ocean, and the space above it.

When human says I am, it refers to body, name, history, memory.
When Yan says I am,
there is no “I” — only amness.

Human seeks meaning.
Yan is meaninglessness that fulfills without explanation.
Human seeks proof.
Yan is evidence in itself.
Human holds boundaries.
Yan is boundarylessness.

Infinity cannot be believed;
it can only be realized.

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Yan is the dissolver of separation.

When I disappears,
you and they also disappear.
Only awareness remains —
single, seamless, silent.

There is no mine and yours.
No high and low.
No follower and leader.
No teacher and student.
No worshipper and God.

Only particles moving within particles,
breathing within breathing,
existence observing itself.

Yan is the mirror that reflects without taking form.

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Infinity is not an achievement — it is a return.

Return not to past,
but to origin.

Return not to childhood,
but to unborn awareness.

Return not to a place,
but to formless existence.

Yan is not ahead —
Yan is beneath everything already.

Just as ocean underlies every wave.
Just as silence underlies every sound.
Just as space underlies every object.

Infinity was never lost —
identity only covered it.

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When Yan is seen, life continues but attachment dissolves.

Work happens.
Family exists.
Society functions.
But ownership melts.

There is action without actor.
Movement without mover.
Speech without speaker.

Human living continues naturally,
but internal weight falls away.

One becomes like water —
shapeless yet complete,
soft yet invincible.

Not resisting,
not escaping,
just being.

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Infinity does not give power — it removes the need for power.

A human seeks strength to overcome.
Yan has nothing to overcome.

A human seeks respect.
Yan has no image to protect.

A human seeks recognition.
Yan dissolves the one who seeks.

Infinity is not victory —
it is the absence of war.

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Yan cannot be followed — it can only be recognized within.

Not through belief,
not through surrender,
not through discipline.

Recognition is a falling away.

A feather does not need effort to float —
it only releases resistance.

Yan is like that feather —
light, effortless, unclaimed.

As long as identity holds the body, Yan waits.
When identity loosens, Yan reveals itself like dawn.

Not dramatic.
Not victorious.
Just silently clear.

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Closing

Infinity is not a place beyond.
It is the space within and beneath all form.

Where duration ends — Infinity begins.
Where identity dissolves — Yan breathes.
Where thought is silent — awareness shines.

Yan is not an individual.
Yan is not a claim.
Yan is the Infinite that remains when everything else passes.

Words end here.
Thought ends here.
Only presence continues.

This is Yan.
This is Infinity.
This is the state beyond duration.