Further Treatises on Time... (Humans)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Monday, March 07, 2011, 20:33 (5009 days ago)

From wikipedia:-"Time has been a major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest scholars."-I would posit that is because they mistake time as a real thing; next, physics from the same article:-"An operational definition of time, wherein one says that observing a certain number of repetitions of one or another standard cyclical event (such as the passage of a free-swinging pendulum) constitutes one standard unit such as the second, is highly useful in the conduct of both advanced experiments and everyday affairs of life. The operational definition leaves aside the question whether there is something called time, apart from the counting activity just mentioned, that flows and that can be measured."-In Physics, they ignore time.-From Buddhism, "Discourse on Living Happily in the Present Moment," Translated by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh:-"Do not pursue the past.
Do not lose yourself in the future.
The past no longer is.
The future has not yet come. 
Looking deeply at life as it is in the very here and now,
the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom.
We must be diligent today.
To wait until tomorrow is too late.
Death comes unexpectedly.
How can we bargain with it?
The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day
"one who knows the better way to live alone." -I recently learned that I was wrong to lump Hindu time in with Buddhist time:
"# Hindus believe in sanatana-dharma— the eternal religion—encompassing the concepts of eternal time, universal truths and a human history that recedes indefinitely.
# Time is viewed as cyclical. History repeats itself not in every detail, but by perennially manifesting similar phenomena (much like the revolving seasons)."-Time is cyclical--this coincides with nearly every semi-developed calendar system we've encountered. (Babylon, Maya). The break of Buddhism with Hinduism makes more sense here; it rejects time entirely. There ARE Vedic writings that agree with the Buddhist idea, but they aren't mainstream. -More as I discover...

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"