Time ( Archived) (25)

At the speed of light.

But our existence depends on gravity fighting this losing battle against time. It's a brief candle this balance of gravity and time. And society will end once you get people viewing themselves as beings a of pure light. All form and matter disintegrating into a situation where nothing happens. The end of time, the end of history.

It's interesting to note that a Buddhist perspective on time is shared by many of our greatest philosophers and scientists.
But within Buddhism it's agreed, the topic is too complex to understand with just a fleeting study. This is a short extract from a very interesting journal.


The concept of time in philosophy: A comparative study between Theravada Buddhist and Henri Bergson's concept of time from Thai philosophers' perspectives


Concept of Time in Theravada Buddhist Philosophy

According to Buddhist Philosophy, time appears in our consciousness during the process of knowing, which consists of the existence of matter first, then, the interaction between matters, then, functions of our consciousness (our senses), then, the process of knowing that occur in our consciousness and finally, the feeling that occurs in our consciousness.

Time therefore, is subjective because its existence depends upon our consciousness to acknowledge it. Time is relative to our consciousness through our perceptions of the world via our senses (Bunnag, 2016, p. 89).

Moreover, Buddhist philosophy suggests that time does not have real existence. It is only a concept with no inherent existence because it belongs to the relative truth of the world of experience from our consciousness. Each of our consciousness (or thought-moment) according to Abhidhamma (Narada Maha Thera, 1987, p. 215) consists of three phases, with the first phase called the occurring or genesis (uppada), the second phase is change or development (thiti) and the last phase is cessation or dissolution (bhanga). One consciousness is followed by another. The past is gone; the future has not yet to come. We live only for the moment of Now which is, thus, the transitional stage from the future to the past. Buddhist scripture states clearly that “Time is a concept derived from this or that phenomenon. And it does not exist by nature, it is merely a concept” (Narada Maha Thera, 1987, p. 216).

Furthermore, Buddhist philosophy suggests that time is mind-dependent because time has no existence outside of phenomena and their observers. Time must be perceived by a mind (consciousness) in relation to successions of events that occur to a particular system (that is, planes of existence, such as heaven, earth, or hell) (Promtha, 1988, pp. 54–60). It follows that without a mind to observe the changes of the conditioned things, the perception of time cannot be realized (Bunnag, 2016, p. 90).

Finally, the concept of time in Buddhist philosophy suggests that without the conditioned things, there will be no concept of time. The conditioned things related to time as witness to their unstable and changing condition which suggests that time does not exist separately from the conditioned things. This relationship does not mean that time is a quality of the conditioned things, but it indicates that time is only a concept invented by consciousness from perceiving the becoming process of the conditioned things. It follows that without the becoming process of the conditioned things, there is no time, and without time, there is no past, present, and future (Bunnag, 2016, p. 91). The only existence would be only the unconditioned things that exist beyond the concept of time (Promtha, 1988, p. 59).

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When you talk about becoming a white minority by the year 2066. Live for today these selfish little narcissists from the new age will say. And yet if you were talk of other races then the future certainly does exist. The future doesn't exist for barren, bankrupt treacherous new agers talking about their way of life.

Yes, 2,500 years new.

Many years ago, (24th December 1969 and 30th May 1970 two dates that changed my perception of life up to the present day.) I experienced the collapse and total disintegration of time. I totally understood, all that existed was the freeze frame of the present moment which was happening entirely in my mind. Going backwards was easy, just as real, still from the present moment, but still entirely in my mind.
For quite some time I struggled to understand what had happened and I guess it wasn't till many years later and the start of a spiritual journey, answers started to appear, particularly with Buddhist teachings although not just Buddhism.