Is time real?

[ayar415]

Originally Posted by FallingLeaves

As it is we still have the choice to keep complaining that we aren't getting our own way as if it were our birthright to do so, or to turn back from that and just accept the life we are given on the terms it was given.

It is our birthright to bring about a world without human conflict and misery. Why would you accept a mess of an existence? Who says you have to be a loser?

[Dan_SF]

Originally Posted by snowyowl

I love these sorts of questions.

Right...

This question is not asked from your body-ego perspective.

Here is the explanation:
You were a timeless, eternal being, before you came into this world.

Time is like a branch for you (it can be easily cut out, but the stem will survive regardless).
When you entered time, you have forgotten the eternity and immortality.
This forgetting is how you actually try to die.

When you forget the eternity, you are in a fearful state.
Fears, in this kind of being, are a form of questions.

One question leads to another, to another and to another.

I guess i pointed out to the 2nd hidden question of fear. Time is the 3rd.

You can recognize that some human beings are asking such questions (although in different form) as well.

Here is an example in which hidden/indirect question are asked:
"A child may ask his father, are you going fishing this afternoon, and the father may say 'Why ? are you going to play on the XBOX, the whole time while i'm gone?' "

If you understand this, then you can come to the real question (just like i did), when you know that time means "TO END".

Have any of you all ever lucid dreampt ?

[utopiandreamchild]

Yes time is real and we are all bound by time.
Time is a thing we can't avoid.
All things happen in time.
Past, present, future, all time related.

utopia

[ayar415]

QUOTE Post 714 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by utopiandreamchild

Yes time is real and we are all bound by time.
Time is a thing we can't avoid.

We can't avoid money also. Time is money, as they would say.

In the real world in which we live, there are also sorrows of the mind and pains of the body. Spirituality is the hunt for freedom from the real world. Is this possible?

Like a tiger pacing incessantly back and forth in a circus cage, the spirit of mankind seeks liberation from the real world. Only the dead would accept a reality that is at odds with something that is not dead.

[utopiandreamchild]

It's all about clockwork.
We all function in time.
There's no escaping it, use your time wisely.

utopia

Time is merely man's correlation between movement and awareness but time as a thing does not exist . as a concept it does, but that's it

[ayar415]

QUOTE Post 716 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by utopiandreamchild

We all function in time.

Of course, we do. As long as we exist as temporal beings in a secular world devoid of spirituality, time exists.

[ayar415]

QUOTE Post 717 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by MAYA EL

Time is merely man's correlation between movement and awareness but time as a thing does not exist . as a concept it does, but that's it

You need to get your facts right. Time is a thing created by the mind; and as a thing, time exists. Time is a conceptual thing just as everything else (including the self) is.

Reality is an immaculate conception of the mind.

[ayar415]

QUOTE Post 707 EXCERPT:

Originally Posted by FallingLeaves

Better to do exactly what you did, and relate to all the theories people are throwing at you on whatever terms you think are reasonable.

Yours is a thoughtful response. I am not being offhandedly dismissive of the theories of science. What I question is our careless "layman" extrapolation of those theories to everyday life. Cow comprised of atoms? Come on.