Greg/Tim/Time

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Greg - I value your commentaries. The questions you ask are incisive and

leave one

nowhere to stand. It is good to have no "where" to stand. Standing

nowhere, I don't have to worry whether I have legs or not. I'm glad you

took the "time" to provide

these comments.

 

Cheerily nowhere,

Dan

 

At 11:46 AM 7/14/99 -0400, you wrote:

>Greg Goode <goode

>

>Dear Tim,

>

>Commenting...

>

>>All time is contained in the present, at this exact moment.

>

>This is nice. But maybe you don't take this far enough, as some of your

>ramifications seem to assume the reality of the past and future.

>

>>First, we can imagine a future. But once that future is arrived at, it's

>>NOW again.

>

>If there is no future, then there's no arriving. There's no seriality, no

>chronological movement.

>

>Also,

>

>>At the same time, we cannot "dwell in the past," because the past is

>>nothing but the stored contents of the brain's memory.

>

>If there is no past, then there's no brain, and certainly no storage. For

>there to be physical objects, mustn't there be time for them to be extended

>across? And certainly for there to be anything such as storage, the notion

>of a temporal or chronological extension is necessary.

>

>

>>Abiding always in this moment, we are outside of time,

>>we stand free of it. We stand always right on the threshold

>>of the unknown. On this threshold is a crack or a seam.

>>Letting ourselves fall into this seam, remain within it, BE it,

>>we are in the Absolute (are the Absolute).

>

>What kind of thing or non-thing are we, if we can abide? Or if we can

>stand anywhere, fall anywhere? Or if we can be in the Absolute? Or are

>you giving a kind of progressive way to see/understand/come-to-be our nature?

>

>Love,

>

>Greg

>

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