POSTHUMOUS PIECES : 22





Quips and Queries - I

How could anything extended in the concepts of 'space' and 'time' be other than a fabrication in mind, as a dream is?

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Existence is subject to Time. How could what-we-are be dependent on sequence in duration?

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Can any metaphysical statement based on a tacit acceptance of space and time be anything but balderdash?

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The seeker is the found, the found is the seeker - as soon as it is apperceived that there is no time.

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All 'being' can only 'be' as a continuity in duration. That is why the Diamond Sutra condemns it as a concept which has no existence as such.

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Phenomena are not extended in space-time objectively, as things in themselves: it is the perceiving which extends them.

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'Sudden enlightenment' means precisely the immediate apperception of all that in fact we are.

'Enlightenment' is 'sudden' only because it is not in 'time' (subject to sequential duration). It re-integration in intemporality.

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Apart from the conceptual 'space-time' of relativity in which it is extended - there is nothing for 'form' to be.



(© T.J. Gray, 1968)
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