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No past or future, just the present moment is all that exists?
and i not saying, well since the future had not happened and the past is... in the past and its not real.... but rather their is only the present moment and time is but an illusion of u moving through the already prefabricated future and past, though being able to chose which path u want to go on..... kinda like a labyrinth that has already been here all along, you are just choosing what you want to experience
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6 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
It is better to choose the way out of the labyrinth of karma reactions before our time is up. Time may be an illusion, but still it will kill you. Why experience suffering? Everywhere you see is only suffering. The happiness is another illusion.
- Anonymous8 years ago
It is always the present, but it is only always the present because we can't actually exist anywhere else but now. That's not to say that we haven't experienced other moments that existed but no longer exist now, it just means that we can't experience the exact same moment more than once. The mind is constantly changing and thus constantly experiencing change.
The only time the mind doesn't experience change is when the mind is unconscious and/or unaware.
The future does exist, but it exists as moments that we are yet to experience. No physical reality actually exists in the future, but possibilities and probabilities do. Ultimately it is what we do now that impacts the present past and the future present.
The past is the experiences that we have already experienced, the future is the experiences that we have yet to experience, and the present is the experience of the reality of existence.
- ?Lv 68 years ago
The past IS VERY REAL because it does have consequences in the present, by the GOOD or BAD choices that we wisely (or unwisely) make. I will not insult your intellugence wuth examples.
The future is not here yet, TRUE. But it is in the end, the cumulative result of ongoing choices.
The present is WHAT ? The fleeting moment which one can never pin down. Gautama Buddha made much of the present moment and how (according to his limited understanding) to live it.
A lot of this is found in ZEN buddhism.
My take is simple: BEWARE MINDLESS, SELF-DIRECTED CHOICES MADE IN THE EVER MOVING PRESENT. You may not like the end product at all.
- 8 years ago
While it often appears that way and it won't have a major impact on your life if you continue to think such thoughts, there is randomness in life, the universe, and existence itself which cannot be predicted. Physics and mathematics have shown this to be true. The weight of the evidence strongly suggests that everything in the future is not "prefabricated".
