The words used to describe time are culture specific. Different cultures describe time differently and experience time differently. Than we do. True, the present is immeasurably brief, and it is the only moment in which we can influence the future and change the effects of the past. I think of time more like a lake, than a river. There are so many possible futures and so many possible interpretations of the past. We can move in any direction without the connotations of “up”, “down”, “forward” or “backward”. In this image, time does not run, like a river. We run, or walk, or stop.
The question of what makes up the universe is one of the central questions of Buddhism. One theory is that while things are alive, the essential “stuff” of the universe is animate, while things are dead, the “stuff” is inanimate. Each living being is like a wave on the surface of the ocean; rising and then dissolving, and rising again. Some schools of Buddhism say that everything we see and experience is a creation of the mind. Therefore, “mind” is the only truth. I think Einstein would say that there no “stuff”, only energy in two different forms. His energy equation says that there is only energy, but it appears in two forms: energy and mass.. I don’t know what I think about this…
April (Dad)
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