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Chapter 41 Life in imaginary time The world where we live is so far the four dimensional world which added forth dimension, the Time from three dimension of the Space and the Time has three horizontal arrows. Because of its horizontal arrow of Time, The human being can not control Time and is thrown by the one sided flow of Time to rise up and fall down. If borrowing words of the Buddha, until the human being is born and the impotent feeling to the time dies, it is called inevitable four sufferings of human being. the pain for leaving beloved, the pain meeting the person who has a grudge , the pain that the one to seek isn't gotten, and the pain because the body lives which must part from above 4 pains and the loving person sometime being hateful which is made fun of by the struggling to adjust the pain. We can say that we need not appreciate such struggling if it is possible to live without being made a fool by Time. Indeed, it turns to the world of the free observation with perfect freedom bodhisattva. The way not to be made fool by Time becomes the most important theme. It is the release from the real time, i.e. the horizontal arrow of time solves it. As for the past, it is to have finished and it is possible to remember but isn't possible to do how. As for the future, it doesn't come yet, and it isn't possible to remember how but is possible to follow. Because the human being lives in such condition, the struggling should be consequential. Living on the gorge between the past and the future that isn't possible do in this moment at present is the point of solving the problem which have been specifically emphasized by Zen Buddhism and so on various religion from the past. "Just sitting" Just sit without thinking of anything. It is the meaning to believing in the moment. "It is easy to say but hard to do" there were no one who could execute this Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Kuukai, Shinran, Nichiren, Doogen, Hakuin, Ryokan and so on. Surely, to live in this moment at present is the prescription but the religion so far stops there. What is this moment at present is to show more specifically is important thing above all. I think that we live inside of the imaginary time, understanding a concept of the imaginary time. Then, how to live inside of the imaginary time? We see time vertically. When seeing time vertically, how to do things? Even if it begins at the time to have been woken or it may begin at the time to get to sleep at night. You should choose the one that you like more because it is the start point and the terminal of one circle that is the same place. Drowsiness is only one condition. Also, it is no good even if it comes to one's senses fully. Training to find the drowsiness and the gorge of the eyes disappearing first is the first step. Then, if the gorge can be found, even if you sit or to lie, but put a second hand of watch which is turning to the immediateness and each of the cells of the body draw a breathed image. Actually, because you are being breathed and it is not an image and perception will be more appropriate. This is the second step. Then, you see the second hand of watch before you. If the second hand of watch stops, you live in the imaginary time. It is the actually simple thing only of it. As for the paradise, it isn't such complicated. |