Creator and Karma

last SG · 2005-10-13T19:04:27+00:00

"Mere suffering is, not any sufferer is found The deeds exist, but no performer of the deeds: Nibbana is, but not the man that enters it, The path is, but no...

maggot SG

When you throw an apple upwards, you quickly press the stopwatch to measure the time for it to drop onto the ground.

When an apple is thrown upwards you all know what will happen to the apple right?

However, we can use a stopwatch to measure the time taken when the apple leaves your hand to the moment it hits the ground.

An Eternal Now SG

Regarding 'timelessness', I will quote two persons from the other 'There is no time' post -

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longchen 05 December 2004 · 09:58 PM

From my understanding thus far, all past lives are actually happening in the ETERNAL NOW. This interpretation was taken from a brief moment, which felt as if I was physically, and consciously aligned with Eternal Now/No Time. I was very much awake when the amazing phenomenon occurred. I could only catch a glimpse of it.
Anyway, heres what I think I perceived

TIME existed only as a perception for physical consciousness in this realm. Without consciousness, TIME does not exist. Events are all happening in the NOW moment. However, not all consciousnesses are in the present time. Past events/memories are also happening in the NOW. Future appears to be some kind of potential.

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Thusness 07 December 2004 · 08:44 AM

This topic is so much to my liking that I have to say something.
"Time" does it exist first of all? Science has viewed time as a dimension that can be manipulated if "we are able to travel faster than the speed of light." According to Einstein, a photon travelling at the speed of light does not experience time, coz time halt at the speed of light!
So where is "Time" according to Science? It is another "space" far from
"here" and can be reached if we are able to travel faster than light.
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Thusness 07 December 2004 · 08:59 AM

The moment ceases as it arises, what the mind grasped is but an image
of the ever changing Present. It catches the "Form", the "Enity", the "I"
which is illusionary and misses the Essence. In reality there is no changing "thing", there is merely change.

Right at this moment is the display of the three Dharma Seals: impermanence, non-self, and nirvana, the emptiness nature all existence.
This is the basis that every authentic teaching of buddhism must bear.

It is here that even the greatest mystic must take bow to Buddha. Such penetrating insight amid all kinds of lightning-fast changes to differentiate "I AM" from "Thusness".

The ever Presence of all cannot be something secondhand, it cannot
be the object of observation. It remains original, new, clear and ungraspable.
To enter into the profoundest source of our true nature, -to "know" Now.....Got to work NOW...

An Eternal Now SG

Yes... i understand what you mean.. and I don't mean to say that they are the same.

An Eternal Now SG

BTW Eye in the Sky, just curious to know… how did you know about this forum? Did you come from longchen (simpo’s) forum? or perhaps some other Buddhist forums? It is a rare occurance to have a foreigner post in this forum since sgforums.com is a Singaporean forum.

concerned_man SG

All things are the creations of our thougths. Thinking produces a frequency and this frequency is a energy which constantly and instantiously broadcast out into the interspaces of universe. This frequency attracts other energies that is in line with your thoughts and produces concrete substances and images that we can see and touch. It falls back to the science theory that energy cannot be created nor distroyed, but it can change from one state to another.

And all substances are energies, be it in the air, water, rocks, table etc and our thoughts.

We are the creation of our thoughts.

In fact one seminar from US (not a Buddhist community) is adovocating about this.

cheers,
Concerned Man

An Eternal Now SG

Interesting theories, but then again.. not sure if its exactly Buddhist Laughing Could be true also...

But yes, every moment there is Change. that is impermanency Smile

sinweiy SG

but at the base of matter, there are 4 permenent abstract element according to Buddha. they are earth, air, water and fire that are not interchangable, ie earth energy can't become water energy per se. true that they cannot be destroy.
And mind energy also got their seperated energies from the matter energies.

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An Eternal Now SG

Ahah - you just said what I wanted to say but forgotten! Laughing

An Eternal Now SG

From How the Brahma believed He was God?

Maha Brahma, known as the all mighty creator, was asked 'Lord, where do
these four great elements -- the earth property, the liquid
property, the fire property, and the wind property -- cease without
remainder?'

In which at the end of the sutta.... the answer was given Mr. Green

sinweiy SG

Originally posted by An Eternal Now:
In which at the end of the sutta.... the answer was given

might as well... Wink

"'Your question should not be phrased in this way: Where do these four great elements the earth property, the liquid property, the fire property, and the wind property cease without remainder? Instead, it should be phrased like this:

Where do water, earth, fire, & wind
have no footing?
Where are long & short,
coarse & fine,
fair & foul,
name & form
brought to an end?
"'And the answer to that is:

Consciousness without feature,1
without end,
luminous all around:
Here water, earth, fire, & wind
have no footing.
Here long & short
coarse & fine
fair & foul
name & form
are all brought to an end.
With the cessation of [the activity of] consciousness
each is here brought to an end.'"
That is what the Blessed One said.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/sutta/digha/dn-11-tb0.html

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An Eternal Now SG

Hmm yes Smile Cool

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