The concept of 'time' exists only in Human Mind
Debashis Dey
June 16, 2009
Can you accept the fact that 'time' is a thing which only exists profoundly in human mind ? Apart from 'us' no one in this world is much bothered with time be it past or future. Yes the present only exists in true sense - but we have forgotten how to live in the present - the 'now'. We allow 'past' to guide us to act in the present and similarly we allow 'future' to control our present - be it in terms of health or finance or love or any aspect of life. In effect we are never living in the present ! We miss all the fun, we de-value our earnings for the sake of future, we look away from the awesome air outside to do our daily routine as the past guides us and we miss the most important precious moment - which is 'now' for some illusion of past and future!
The butterfly which dances around all day in pleasure and also to give pleasure hardly lives only for a day - no past , no future - what would happen if it also started thinking like us ?
Knowledge which builds the mind is acquired over 'time' - an important factor which builds the image of self. Please see my previous articles.
Our whole life is based on action which is driven by our thoughts which again is based on knowledge. Knowledge acquired either by study, research, through experience, exchange, interaction, doing something or out of action (meaning you do something without thinking and then learn out of it) and all of which are accumulated over time.
We lead our daily life out of this actions, learn and again modify our act from that knowledge. But the accepted fact is - knowledge is never complete in any spheres - be it science, arts, relation, music, poetry, literature, farmer, or with anyone. A part of the knowledge is always filled with ignorance.... and action out of such knowledge can never be complete... Please do post your views if you think differently or you want to discuss this point.
There is yet to be an action which is complete, meaning which is free of greed, jealousy, aggressiveness, confusion, and which never results in attachment leading to conflict, pain and sorrow. Just look at people working in offices today - they are doing it just for some reward or out of fear (fear of losing their daily bread - or their hold of the market - or making a financial loss- or maintaining their so called status or being called incompetent....) - we cannot get free and lead a life which we want - why can't we ? Maybe the same cab driver will drive the cab for the better part of his life even though he does not like to do it - a woman here will go on cooking for the whole breed for all the years of her life even though she hates it - the coder will code for the rest of his life - the traffic cop will keep on raising his hand to stop and pass cars for sixty odd years even though he cries inside at the thought of it - don't you think there is something very wrong in the whole system of existence... something very weird! Lets go back to the time factor ...
In any form of relation and even in love or in marriage or friendship, all our actions are based on the image of our friend, partner or our spouse which we cultivate in our minds over time based on our previous impressions, images ( drawn from maybe few hundreds or thousands of exchanges and interactions) - and we act based on that image in our mind - (from knowledge) which gives rise to conflict, division and biasness, coz we think we have complete knowledge of the person when in reality we do not. Can we ever know a person completely - as we are not aware on his or her individual image in his/her mind which has build over a period of time based on his/her personal experiences.
As such our actions based on incomplete thought which again based on incomplete knowledge is always incomplete in nature and bound to result into conflict between each and everyone of us even man and woman, friends, relatives, colleagues, leaders, nations and so on...
So Time is also an important factor - as gathering knowledge requires time - we learn over a period of time. Even to know your loved one you require time. Time is also there in our psychological existence like i am an executive today - i want to be a manager , i love this girl and want to marry her, i have a bike but i will drive a car - and we think 'time' will help us to attain these positions...
All our desires, greed, expectations, aspirations, assumptions, ambitions are 'time' dependent!
So we can conclude that the basic component of our mind is thought, knowledge and time which determines 100% of all our actions.
Like in the next post we will see how human beings have lived a million years with this conflict from the very beginning ...and we are still continuing to live with the same conflict... and so i believe and maybe others also that there is something drastically or radically wrong as our actions emerge from the same destructive mind... ( or mind full of conflicts) and maybe we will remain trapped in that self centered being for another million years...unless.... we radically change ourselves.
The butterfly which dances around all day in pleasure and also to give pleasure hardly lives only for a day - no past , no future - what would happen if it also started thinking like us ?
Knowledge which builds the mind is acquired over 'time' - an important factor which builds the image of self. Please see my previous articles.
Our whole life is based on action which is driven by our thoughts which again is based on knowledge. Knowledge acquired either by study, research, through experience, exchange, interaction, doing something or out of action (meaning you do something without thinking and then learn out of it) and all of which are accumulated over time.
We lead our daily life out of this actions, learn and again modify our act from that knowledge. But the accepted fact is - knowledge is never complete in any spheres - be it science, arts, relation, music, poetry, literature, farmer, or with anyone. A part of the knowledge is always filled with ignorance.... and action out of such knowledge can never be complete... Please do post your views if you think differently or you want to discuss this point.
There is yet to be an action which is complete, meaning which is free of greed, jealousy, aggressiveness, confusion, and which never results in attachment leading to conflict, pain and sorrow. Just look at people working in offices today - they are doing it just for some reward or out of fear (fear of losing their daily bread - or their hold of the market - or making a financial loss- or maintaining their so called status or being called incompetent....) - we cannot get free and lead a life which we want - why can't we ? Maybe the same cab driver will drive the cab for the better part of his life even though he does not like to do it - a woman here will go on cooking for the whole breed for all the years of her life even though she hates it - the coder will code for the rest of his life - the traffic cop will keep on raising his hand to stop and pass cars for sixty odd years even though he cries inside at the thought of it - don't you think there is something very wrong in the whole system of existence... something very weird! Lets go back to the time factor ...
In any form of relation and even in love or in marriage or friendship, all our actions are based on the image of our friend, partner or our spouse which we cultivate in our minds over time based on our previous impressions, images ( drawn from maybe few hundreds or thousands of exchanges and interactions) - and we act based on that image in our mind - (from knowledge) which gives rise to conflict, division and biasness, coz we think we have complete knowledge of the person when in reality we do not. Can we ever know a person completely - as we are not aware on his or her individual image in his/her mind which has build over a period of time based on his/her personal experiences.
As such our actions based on incomplete thought which again based on incomplete knowledge is always incomplete in nature and bound to result into conflict between each and everyone of us even man and woman, friends, relatives, colleagues, leaders, nations and so on...
So Time is also an important factor - as gathering knowledge requires time - we learn over a period of time. Even to know your loved one you require time. Time is also there in our psychological existence like i am an executive today - i want to be a manager , i love this girl and want to marry her, i have a bike but i will drive a car - and we think 'time' will help us to attain these positions...
All our desires, greed, expectations, aspirations, assumptions, ambitions are 'time' dependent!
So we can conclude that the basic component of our mind is thought, knowledge and time which determines 100% of all our actions.
Like in the next post we will see how human beings have lived a million years with this conflict from the very beginning ...and we are still continuing to live with the same conflict... and so i believe and maybe others also that there is something drastically or radically wrong as our actions emerge from the same destructive mind... ( or mind full of conflicts) and maybe we will remain trapped in that self centered being for another million years...unless.... we radically change ourselves.
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