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Recieved: 1999/10/26 16:41
Subject: Re: [K-list] fate, destiny, subtle body and soul
From: mango
On 1999/10/26 16:41, mango posted thus to the K-list:
Even black holes eat time, (they "eat" everything).
so i guess that time is not always and everywhere can be proven
with even one more theory. :)
> Hello all kundalites !
>
> In one of the yoga-sutras of Patanjali (I don't remember which one) it's
> stated that time, or rather the sense of evolving time within our
> consciousness, is generated by the flow of objects and impressions in the
> mind.
>
> I first more or less brushed this off as as one more clever theory,
> impossible to prove. However once I started to become a little bit more aware
> of the workings of my mind (meditation and all that...), it began to make a
> lot more & practical sense - check it out: You see a dog in the street, it's
> the mind that creates the image of a dog in consciousness. Then you think
> about what groceries to get in the supermarket - now the dog isn't there in
> the consciousness but it's place has been taken by apples, cartons of milk
> and the odd zucchini. Then your neighbour calls from over the fence and the
> mind travels outwards and formulates something nice to say. When the
> neighbour is back in her house, you stop and think, wow already five minutes
> have passed, I have to run now...
>
> If one can step back a little bit from the mind, it's possible to realise,
> that all these events (dogs, zucchini, neighbours, sense of urgency) appeared
> and disappeared within the mind and in so doing created a sense of
> consecutive linearity. However the actual observer, (the silent witness, the
> inner movie-screen, the "I" beyond the mind) is absolutely still and static -
> no movement - and therefore no time - this part of oneself is always in the
> eternal "now" and time is just in the mind.
>
> Also, when in deep concentration, the sense of time changes - I think most
> people have experienced this. This is because, there aren't many different
> objects and impressions in the mind but only whatever one is concentrating on
> ...
>
> All this stuff is really subtle, I find it quite difficult to nail it down
> accurately. It's a really interesting idea to play around with however and I
> find that as a "reality-concept" it sort of grows on you... (Mama help - is
> it contagious ??!!)
>
> Love
> Michael
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