The dictionary defines time as: ‘The measured or measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues.’
Since Einstein, many scientists have been referring to “spacetime,” wherein space and time are united and not separate.
When we look at time or spacetime in the ordinary way, we — as we were taught — look via the known… via limited measurement and inherited pattern-making. Such time (or spacetime) is circumscribed and very limited. We look via the known and usually see things in a circumscribed, bounded, finite, fixed, and confined way. Such looking is fragmentary, partial, and quite constrained. Very few of us look beyond the known, beyond the second-hand, beyond the restricted templates and limited symbolic arrangements. A beautiful psychological transformation or metamorphosis can enable us to exist beyond such bounded, limited perspectives. However, time is not a factor in getting there; that would be absurd. There is no path to the pathless.
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Thanks, Harini! 😉 Krishnamurti was one of a number of people whom i was fond of reading when i was in my youthful days. And i had a lot of one-on-one conversations with Professor David Bohm at Brockwood Park and at the K. Oak Grove School in Ojai.
“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’
Into the future.”
If the here and now is scary, then the future is even scarier.
I like your up-close-and-personal look at what may be a dragonfly (although its wings look a tad short to be a dragonfly) – the coloring is beautiful.
I agree: no path to the pathless. My sense is that even if given a path to follow, the “landscape” would alter significantly before we got much closer than our starting point.
Fantastic image … sparks the wonder of how it got right there right when you got right there with camera …
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All is here and now
No. That is a fragmentary (limited) outlook. 😉
And just when I thought time was on our side! 🤣⏰😆⌛😂
Ah, time — as we see it — is limited, superficial, and it is an extension of the known. Merely clinging to that is restricted and deficient. 😉😁
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Amazing capture Tom!
Thank you much, Marcela! 😊
A gorgeous green jewel, that lovely insect… amazing photo! 🙂
Thank you, Nicole! 😊
Beautiful pic! Your words often remind me of J Krishnamurti, whom i admire but often don’t understand… ‘Truth is a pathless land’ is so profound.
Thanks, Harini! 😉 Krishnamurti was one of a number of people whom i was fond of reading when i was in my youthful days. And i had a lot of one-on-one conversations with Professor David Bohm at Brockwood Park and at the K. Oak Grove School in Ojai.
“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’
Into the future.”
If the here and now is scary, then the future is even scarier.
I like your up-close-and-personal look at what may be a dragonfly (although its wings look a tad short to be a dragonfly) – the coloring is beautiful.
Hi Linda, this insect is no dragonfly. It is super tiny. It is a male Midge. The antennae of males are feathery. 😀
I don’t think I’ve seen a Midge before Tom, likely because it is midget-sized. I liked that spot of color it had and you honed in on.
Thanks, Linda! They are beautiful insects! 😄
I agree: no path to the pathless. My sense is that even if given a path to follow, the “landscape” would alter significantly before we got much closer than our starting point.
Fantastic image … sparks the wonder of how it got right there right when you got right there with camera …
Well, Jazz, there is no path that leads to the sacred. This — being as it is — pretty much nullifies organized religion. 😉
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Thank for this beautiful one 💝
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