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  hardie karges 5:00 am on December 29, 2024 Permalink | Reply
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  Applied Buddhism: the Present as Precedent… 

  

  Let go of the past. Embrace the future. Accept the present as the only thing we can truly know from direct experience. And this I know from experience, having been at the losing end of many debates on the subject, I once a proponent of the losing idea that time, like space, has three dimensions: past, present, and future. But now I can see clearly that those are really only one, or maybe three-in-one, if you prefer, the only remaining question being whether space is truly three dimensions, or whether it, too, is really only one, or maybe two, if we see the world as composed of drops rather than crystals, circles rather than cubes.

  So, how can you embrace the future, then, if it’s really only a simulated version of the present? I think of it as Emptiness, or shunyata, which is literally the zero in intermittent mathematical placement notation or potentially the final zero(s) which are capable of multiplication to infinity, and which are arguably a necessity for human existence, that clear blue sky which not only implies oxygen, but life, as much or more than the green of its fruit or the red of its roots, that ultraviolet of infinity as important and ubiquitous as the infrared of black-hole gravity. That’s the past; lose it.

  So, we see everything through the eyes of the here, and the now, which color everything in tones which they are comfortable with, and knowledgeable of, in some vast neural simulation which only vaguely resembles the particle/waves of consciousness and biology which lie at the root of all existence. This is not illusion, though, so much as it is a neural twin of ultimate reality, like VR’s digital twins, so that we can live, and move, and have our being with a minimum of obstacles to movement and awareness, and so happiness, which is all we are really capable of, even on the best of days.

   

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  hardie karges 9:53 am on December 11, 2022 Permalink | Reply
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  Buddhist News Flash! Dogma Gets Run Over by Karma 

  

  

  Beat all dogma with the dullest of dull clubs and bury it six point six feet (two meters) under the ground, because Buddhism is better than that. Still the temptations are real, to establish a Buddhism comma INC that can generate ample funds for wayward monks and maybe send a kid or two to school in the process, or at least I hope so. Karma means actions, after all, and that’s almost always better than dogma.

  But the quest for certainty exists, as in all religions, that being their sine qua non, for lack of a better foreign expression to impress you with, haha. Because the only thing certain is the past, and we are its prisoner, if we let it rule us. So, its only use to us is as a guide, or a teacher, and isn’t that why we always chose someone older than us as our teachers? Their past is their certainty and the tool of their trade. But life must be lived, and not merely studied, like so many beans to be counted, while they find a path through us.

  And that’s why we focus on the present, with only an eye to the past, since what was right for that time has a reduced relevance and resonance for the present. Otherwise, we are committed to dogma and the predilections of the past, while the future is a new babe a-borning, and soon must be swaddled and fed. But these are only metaphors, of course, and if time really exists, then it probably has the same number of dimensions as space, namely one, so just here and now. Only one dimension is necessary to define a point, and that’s the point.
   
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  hardie karges 8:57 am on February 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  The human body is a temple by design, 

  halfway between heaven and earth. Thais try to help this process along by allocating extremely tall pointed hats to children as if they were antennas to keep them in touch with the man upstairs. Drug use is about returning to the world of light speed from which we came, to which we belong. It takes a certain escape velocity to break loose from Earth orbit. These efforts are misguided and doomed to failure, of course, but still not reprehensible. We all carry memories of that other world of time with us here in this world of space. They call drug use ‘getting spaced out’ but it might really be more like getting ‘timed out’, if users are really accessing that other world. If I want to get spaced out, I’ll hop on a jet. We’ve got all the space in the world here. We just don’t have much time. If there is a ghost or spirit world, then it might be just the opposite. They might have all the time in the world, but no space. The perfect world would have both. You just have to make the best of these fistulas and slow spots that comprise life as we know it.

   
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  hardie karges 6:36 am on January 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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  Time gets a raw deal, only one dimension instead of three, 

  and it had to lobby long and hard for that. Space gets to rest its big fat butt in three dimensions, length width and depth like a big reclining chair that can also be a sofa and can also be a bed like three dimensions of fucking off all day at the furniture barn. Space just licks its greasy-fried-chicken fingers and laughs at skinny little uni-dimensional time like an arrow always at odds with space, begging for crumbs on the floor. If anybody deserves three dimensions, it’s time, pregnant with past present and future. Try to get all that on a little line with an arrowhead on one end and a feather on the other. Space is just a simple container, a milk carton, a beer bottle, an oil tanker, a city, a continent, a planet, a solar system. Fill it with your favorite ingredients and shake well before using. Wha’d’ya’ got? Volume, stuff. Sounds like one dimension to me. More than one container? It’s still just stuff loosely connected to more stuff, Beaver in the breakfast nook, battles with battles, star wars, people gazing at planets, journeys between cities, points on planes, shaken not stirred. Space is mostly empty. Time is never empty. Space is just a point in time. Whether big or small, time just bends around it. Time covers all, everything that’s ever happened and everything that ever didn’t. Time is pure mathematics, the geometry of the past and the algebra of the future. Space can’t compete; still we maintain our sentimental attachment to it. It may not be the perfect dimension, but it’s our dimension.

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    its about time... 10:32 am on January 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    Have you read the author Peter Carols theory(s) on ‘shadow time’, in relation to the science of (chaos)magick(s)? You might get a kick out of it. We have used these principles to perform retroactive magicks successfully.
    He introduced these ideas and equations in his ‘Liber Kaos’, Weiser ’92.(and expanded in later works)If your interested.