As Old as This Universe... Only This Moment, Firewood and Ash
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 พ.ค. 2022
- In this excerpt from a 2022 interview, Zen Buddhist Abbot Shohaku Okumura describes how time disappears in the present moment, and shares the analogy of firewood, ash and our finite lives.
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This is what I have begun to accept in this moment. Now that acceptance is in the past moment.
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all things are still, nothing is moving, take a picture, it'll last longer :D Gasho
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Stephen Screaton, yes…yes! Thank you for encountering “Firewood and Ash!”
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Our experience is now, but how does no time/space explain change e.g. child to adult, or a seed to plant? I was once a child I'm now an adult. Is it a case of every past moment happening now as much as every future moment. Where we live in a soup of everything, but our minds only see from the narrative of conditioning and filter all the other realities out?
I think Buddhism follows the teaching of science. In so far as its explanations stall at what is already found through science. But beyond the present science, Buddhism falls short when it comes to clear and detailed reasoning.
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Change is happening now, in this moment. Everything is fresh and born in this moment, change cannot happen in past or future. That child you were is something else, another form, it's not you anymore... it is dead in a sence. You know that because you are not it anymore, you are 100% what you are now. There is no past or future, only your thoughts of them. Thats why it is difficult to understand. Brain/mind or 5 skandhas keep record of things around to navigate trough next moment with anticipation. It is all an illusion. You cannot use thinking mind to grasp reality, it makes no sence. For us is natural to have linear thinking and to track progress but it is all in our mind, true passage of time doesn't exist. As master said it's only on devices. You cannot capture infinity in some frame as he said, because then you can divide it and it is not infinite anymore. It is always 0 always fresh because of that it is always something else, something new but still one and the same thing.
No time/space doesn't need to explain change... The two are not wedded together.
@@MrJbellguitar You may not think it needs to explain change. They are wedded together as in the time space continum. Once I was a child now I'm grown up, that's change over time. I look, feel and think differently.
Nothing ever happens
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