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  by Gudo NISHIJIMA

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Monday, December 22, 2008

MMK (19) Examination of "Time"

1. The fact, that something exists just at the present moment, does never suggest that something has come from some place outside.
Because what is called the past is always not more than image, whicn has been thought in the brain.

The fact, that something exists just at the present moment, does never suggest that something has come from some place outside.
The fact, which has existed in the past, can be also thought as the fact, which occurs in future.


2. The fact, that something exists just at the present moment, does never suggest that something has arrived at from a different place.
The scene, which is seen now, does never appear once more again at all.

The fact that something has existed just at the present moment, does never suggest that something has arrived at from the different place, at all.
Because something, which can be seen in front of us actually, is just Reality itself.


3. The situations, which we have never supposed, still can become the real situations.
The situations, which we have never supposed, or the situations, which have occurred actually,
Those both situations can never be known beforehand.

The fact, that something exists just at the present moment, does never suggest that something has arrived at from the different place, at all. Therefore it is perfectly impossible for us to look at time directly with our eyes.


4. This world, and things and phenomena, which are maintained there, both go on relying upon progress.

The highest, the lowest, the middle, and others, have been united into one,
But at the same time those groups are preparing themselves with their own characteristics.


5. Relying upon the facts that they do not have any time, which is not continued,
Time can be grasped.
If it were true that time has characteristic to be stopping still,
The time might be impossible to be recognised at all.

If it is true that time is sometimes to be grasped, and sometimes can not be grasped,
It is impossible for us to grasp the time, which is keeping to stand still.


6. It is clear that time is making up existence,
And so when time has left from existence, how is it possible for any movement to exist anywhere?
If there were anywhere for existence not to exist, where is it possible for time to exist really even in future at all?

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