The Liberation from Time.

TIME is always the greatest prison of humain being !
Our life, Happiness and Sorrows are always under constrainst of Time. Birth, Death, joung, grown up, old age ... are all within the power of Time !.
Without Time a baby could never be grown up and nature could never be as beautiful as today ...
And somedays we would be very sorry when seeing the traces of Time on our faces, in our footsteps ...
We are prisoners of Time !


BUT is it really so ?
Does Time exist ? Or Time is merely an ordening of events like photos on a desk or video films from years to years, and we could also easily define another one ? or does non-Time exist ?

What is Time then ?
Could we ever be liberated from Time ? ...



IF TIME is like an orderning of photos on a desk, then it is a concept. Define another ordening, is just looking for another ... concept ! It is truly... nonsense because denying a concept and looking for another concept is ... worse !
It could never be an answer of any question ...

Furthermore, if Time is somekind of ordening, it is not just an ordening, it is THE ordening of events saved in our mind. Observe that when we remember some events from the past, we do not merely remember some data as a computer does, but the whole context of the happenings...

That means, the ordening of information in the memory from our mind defines the context of what we remember, and that ordening exists only in our mind and nowhere else. ( * ) Therefore Time is one of the bindings of information in our mind and we could never change that ( except if we are ... out of mind! ), that is, we could never redefine it.

In Reality we could never define any ordening of events, simply because choices do never exist ( see I am ... That! )... In the same way, non-Time does never exist whenever Time does not exist ...



THE point is that, we are binding what we call Time with all kinds of what constitute the so-called "Me". A Time for Hope, a Time for Fear, a Time for Joy, a Time for Love and a Time for Grief ...
That is in Time, we could find the traces of Expectation, of Remembering, of Sorrows, of Desires ... and everyone sees Time in different way. ..
Another way of speaking, a constant or unique function of Time for everyone in the Universe does never exist !



AT her second birthday, when someone asked her how old is she, my daughter did very proudly show her two finger to let everybody know she was Two ... Every afternoon in working days, she always stood by the windows in the day-care, looking outside, watching me to take her home, with full Expectation and Joyness ... Later if she becomes a jobless-in-profession like me today, she would very likely be very sorry every morning when looking at herself in the mirrors and seeing the traces of Time in her life ...
Clearly, Time is binding with feelings, with actions, with spaces ... That is, Time is binding with the Context where it is recognised ...



SO, Time is also not a continuous function in our life !
It is fractional and it does not even have an independent identity, it is merely a binding factor of Events together with our feeling and senses ...
This is one of the most interesting aspects of processes in (thinking) being: It is the most powerful dynamic binding in processes that we could never imagine...

Look at this way: From the three basic colors: Red, Blue, Yellow together with Black and White, we could make all kind of paintings since thousands of years ...

In the same way, all kinds of processes in our life are colored by emotions, feelings, senses together with Time and Space ... In fact these processes are unfinished paintings !. ..
They are unfinished because the colourings are always changing like the streams along the rivers. How colorful they are, how deeper we are sinking in the Self, Time becomes then an unbearable burden, the ferocious chief of the prison where we are its prisoners ...

THEREFORE, when the colorings are fading away, the paitings are no longer ... paintings, the bindings are broken and the processes are dead ! We do no longer be sorry when seeing the traces of ... Time, we do also no longer be sleepless because we are no longer powerful or when remembering sorrows from the past ...
Time appears in its true nature again , it has no Identity, no Future, no Past. And it has even no Self ! ...
It is merely THE ordening of events in our mind : The Liberation from Time is therefore the same as The Liberation from The Self ...



OBSERVE that this is not a concept or merely an understanding, it is a fact !
We cannot simply say Time does (not) exist because we think so, or because it is our point of views, or because we can(not) define Time exactly...
As long as we are still busy with the thinking mind, with Sorrows, with Desires, with the Past, with Future ... Time is still very real in our life and we are still its prisoner but the orderning in our mind is weaker and weaker and it could even be ... disordered !




ON the contrary, when we wake up every day in full power, we are in Peace, we are no longer busy with Dead or Alive, with Success or Failure, with Young or Old, with Tomorrow or Yesterday ...
We do no longer think about Time or even try to understand or define what Time is : Time and Space become indifferent ...
The orderning in our mind is very clearly like the blue sky in the morning again, Time is everywhere and Time is ... dead !


Nguyen Sau Rieng