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The script has been written / time is an illusion
    #26734506 - 06/10/20 01:51 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

I'm sure many of us have come across these concepts before, but I haven't heard anyone discuss it in a while.

This is an excerpt from a text I like to read that I found interesting...

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The time is set already.  It appears to be quite arbitrary.  Yet there is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance.  It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it.  For time but seems to go in one direction.  We but undertake a journey that is over.  Yet it seems to have a future still unknown to us.

Time is a trick, a sleight of hand, a vast illusion in which figures come and go as if by magic.  Yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change.  The script is written.  When experience will come to end your doubting has been set.  For we but see the journey from the point at which it ended, looking back on it, imagining we make it once again; reviewing mentally what has gone by.





Anyway, what do you think of the idea that your whole life has already been lived, that all lives have already been lived and our experience here is kinda like a simulation, the chance to live out one of those lives?  Think it's possible?

What about your past - ever get the feeling you didn't really make a lot of the decisions you thought you made?  That it was kinda already set and you were just going through the motions, having the experience? 

Anyway I find these concepts interesting and thought it might be fun to discuss.  The whole idea that time doesn't even really exist would sure help to remind how trivial and unimportant some of the things in our daily lives are, and assist in learning what is important...


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Forrester]
    #26734527 - 06/10/20 01:58 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Definitely thought about this before. However, I've had to come to terms with the realisation that this kind of thinking won't get me anywhere in life :smile:


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: benjarmin]
    #26734575 - 06/10/20 02:24 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Everything is.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: InfraredRick]
    #26734724 - 06/10/20 03:36 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

It seems crazy to believe or entertain the reality that this life has already been lived.  However time/space are a relative illusion.  This timeline has been determined and is currently being determined.  But I see no good reason to assume with confidence that alternate timelines aren’t happening on their own relative illusion.  We already know through intelligence that there was a “past” where people existed here and now co-creating the world to some extent.  I think it might be fair to say that this moment is just as much an illusion as time and space assuming you would concede that.  The world/universe etc. is far more malleable than I think we like to tell ourselves.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Yellow Pants]
    #26735637 - 06/10/20 10:11 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Well.. I think that we are permanently stuck in a moment called now.

But it is in this moment that we experience.. change and motion..

But one of the other things that we do as humans is project into the future..

It is you in case creating your own story your own illusion..

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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #26735699 - 06/10/20 10:59 PM (3 years, 8 months ago)

I think that is accurate.  “Use your illusion” so to speak.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Yellow Pants]
    #26736120 - 06/11/20 07:02 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Perhaps I come from a different seekers journey.
But along the way I picked up that the past and the future
are only thoughts. Not to negate what seems to be all around us,
but just this is it, everything else is thoughts about it.

I don't see any going back or forward, nor any plan.
As Alan Watts said, it's music and we dance...


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: benjarmin]
    #26736132 - 06/11/20 07:13 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

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benjarmin said:
Definitely thought about this before. However, I've had to come to terms with the realisation that this kind of thinking won't get me anywhere in life :smile:



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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #26736174 - 06/11/20 07:42 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

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Yellow Pants said:
But I see no good reason to assume with confidence that alternate timelines aren’t happening on their own relative illusion.




Absolutely.  I don't think we should take this in a deterministic sense.  Just because the script has been written, doesn't mean 100 million other possible scripts haven't been written as well.  Dimensions of reality...

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Inthepit said:
Perhaps I come from a different seekers journey.
But along the way I picked up that the past and the future
are only thoughts. Not to negate what seems to be all around us,
but just this is it, everything else is thoughts about it.





Nicely worded.  Do you think it is worthwhile to attempt to let go of the thoughts that are the past and future, or is there benefit to them?

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BrendanFlock said:
Well.. I think that we are permanently stuck in a moment called now.

But it is in this moment that we experience.. change and motion..

But one of the other things that we do as humans is project into the future..

It is you in case creating your own story your own illusion..





The eternal now.  So you think there is other than that?  That there is a future?  Trying to understand what you mean exactly by project into the future.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Forrester]
    #26736236 - 06/11/20 08:29 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

Last part you quoted:  I think he is referring to how we can only remember the past & project into the future from the present moment.

As to another thing you quoted I would say to it,

If you take a birds eye view of the whole entire universe - you would see everything transforming all at once .  materializing - subsisting for a moment - and dematerializing , over and over and over - and all of the phenomena witnessed from that state would be & can only occur in the timeless moment of the present.  All unfolding in the now - like a net of transforming magical illusion.

Here are 2 quotes that I think illustrates my point visually.

* Disciples,
When I humbly observe the true nature of things,
all are the marvelous manifestations of the Tathagata’s truth.
Atom by atom, instant by instant,
all are none other than his mysterious radiance
.

- Torei Zhenji’s Bodhisattva Vow


** Homage to Vajrasattva!
In the space where all experience remains in potential,
emerges a grand display of nondual awareness and illusion,
the original spontaneity of our sovereign nature of mind:
indivisible from that, unmoving, to that we bow down
.

- Longenchpa’s Finding Comfort & Ease In Enchantment (illusion)


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Forrester]
    #26736254 - 06/11/20 08:51 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

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Do you think it is worthwhile to attempt to let go of the thoughts that are the past and future, or is there benefit to them?



There's so much on this subject of our thoughts. One is that "waking up " is seeing (not thinking) that we are not our thoughts. That the "mind" is not us, but it is like an organ that just keeps pumping out thoughts. They can be helpful, not an enemy. They can be BS. The "mind" gives the illusion of an ego and is dead set on keeping it that way. Letting go of thoughts is basic in most meditation practices.
Look at something, how is it really there and how much is added by thought? Emotions, memories, beliefs, etc.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Inthepit]
    #26736263 - 06/11/20 08:59 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

The mind of the past is ungraspable;
        the mind of the future is ungraspable;
        the mind of the present is ungraspable.

                                -    Diamond Sutra

That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things
          is called delusion;
That the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self
          is called enlightenment.


                      -    Zen Master Dogen Zenji, 1200 - 1253
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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26736271 - 06/11/20 09:05 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

This is fun, I dig yer Ox herding avatar...


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Inthepit]
    #26736278 - 06/11/20 09:09 AM (3 years, 8 months ago)

I see you have the 3 marks of existence listed below your name, I dig it. 

Btw -. :thumbup: to 🇵🇷


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26742818 - 06/13/20 09:55 PM (3 years, 7 months ago)

Humanity is living in a paradise of the imagination with infinite levels and is simply bound to suffering by the trauma of history.

If a species of deer became intelligent and grew hands, they'd have the same thing to deal with.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26743421 - 06/14/20 05:52 AM (3 years, 7 months ago)

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The Blind Ass said:
If you take a birds eye view of the whole entire universe - you would see everything transforming all at once .  materializing - subsisting for a moment - and dematerializing , over and over and over - and all of the phenomena witnessed from that state would be & can only occur in the timeless moment of the present.  All unfolding in the now - like a net of transforming magical illusion.





I like that analogy, reminds me of the analogy of the river in Hesses' Siddartha, being the same, at any point you look at it, still a river, yet constantly flowing and changing in form (although I cannot seem to find the direct quote I was thinking of, which is much better)


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The Blind Ass said:
Last part you quoted:  I think he is referring to how we can only remember the past & project into the future from the present moment.





Yet this would imply that there is in fact a past and a future, which he is quite literal in staring there is not (not within the quote).  The idea is described even better in the thread Tmethyl posted yesterday actually


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Forrester]
    #26743429 - 06/14/20 05:58 AM (3 years, 7 months ago)

I see it as the past being a memory of the present.  Which can only be remembered in the present.  Memory only works that way.  Our entire lives are up till now are just like last nights dream, even the present moment itself is the minds delusion.

In so far as being true experientially-  I don’t have much issue with this view.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26743436 - 06/14/20 06:03 AM (3 years, 7 months ago)

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The Blind Ass said:
I see it as the past being a memory of the present.  Which can only be remembered in the present.  Memory only works that way.




Yes, I would agree.  But the future can be remembered too, no?


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: Forrester]
    #26743439 - 06/14/20 06:04 AM (3 years, 7 months ago)

I don’t subscribe to the concept of future in the way it is classically thought. It’s like multiplying the equation by 1.  It’s effete.

No such thing. It’s using the imagination in the present moment to try and guess which way the front of the river is going to go and what it’s going to look at - while being part of the front of that very river.  Read the part in my signature about the past present and future.

Sure I use the concept of the future as a useful tool and as a means to an end like a carrot and stick routine,  it’s conventional.

An illusion with real practical power when used appropriately.


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Re: The script has been written / time is an illusion [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26743455 - 06/14/20 06:18 AM (3 years, 7 months ago)

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I don’t subscribe to the concept of future in the way it is classically thought.




On that we certainly agree :grin:

I think I see it a bit differently though.  In your river analogy you mention trying to guess.

Take trying (or thinking at all) out of that. 

Without thinking, I often find myself setting down a pot, minutes before the water starts to drip through the ceiling at that very spot.


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