time-space and mind
Recently I've read two brilliant books:
1) The brief history of time (by Stephen Hawking)
2) Zen and the art of consciousness (by Susan Blackmore)
and it came to me that:
At first human thought that time and space are constant and separated. Then scientists discovered that they are neither constant nor exist by them self, but rather co-exist (The brief history of time). But actually long ago zen masters did reach another level, for them there's no space or time separated from the mind. Each of them (space, time, mind) is not constant and do not exist by itself but depends on the others (Zen and the art of consciousness). The only "problem" is unlike scientists, zen masters did not make "experiments", they actually experienced it through their own minds, which are no ordinary minds.
Because there's actually no seperations of the mind and time and space, from an individual point of view, there's no space other than "your space", and there's no time other than "your time", any projections about other time and space are just simply illusions. That thought led me to below lines:
when you move you are the space,
when you wait you are the time;
and zen really know it
Some how the lines are my intepretation for a favourite verse of mine (in Vietnamese):
"một lời định càn khôn
một kiếm bình thiên hạ"
1) The brief history of time (by Stephen Hawking)
2) Zen and the art of consciousness (by Susan Blackmore)
and it came to me that:
At first human thought that time and space are constant and separated. Then scientists discovered that they are neither constant nor exist by them self, but rather co-exist (The brief history of time). But actually long ago zen masters did reach another level, for them there's no space or time separated from the mind. Each of them (space, time, mind) is not constant and do not exist by itself but depends on the others (Zen and the art of consciousness). The only "problem" is unlike scientists, zen masters did not make "experiments", they actually experienced it through their own minds, which are no ordinary minds.
Because there's actually no seperations of the mind and time and space, from an individual point of view, there's no space other than "your space", and there's no time other than "your time", any projections about other time and space are just simply illusions. That thought led me to below lines:
when you move you are the space,
when you wait you are the time;
and zen really know it
Some how the lines are my intepretation for a favourite verse of mine (in Vietnamese):
"một lời định càn khôn
một kiếm bình thiên hạ"
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