“Now is the time to self-actualize…”
Saul Williams says the time to awaken your potential is now…
Saul takes a moment of reflection…
Please enjoy “Coded Language” by Saul Williams and DJ Krust…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HerpGwbLSM8
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Sending you the seeds of self-actualization…
Peace & Namaste…
“The trouble is,
you think you have time.”
-Buddha
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Buddha’s reflection on time is that it is taken for granted.
Time is of the essence because death is approaching {memento mori}.
Being mindful gives us awareness of how we use our time. Hopefully our time is being used living our potential and awakening spiritually and otherwise.
The key is to live in the present moment {the now} and do your very best.
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I wonder about Buddhist conceptions of time.
I found an intriguing excerpt on Buddhist notions of time from www.tricycle.com
Daniel Goleman: “What is the Buddhist understanding of Time? How can we relate our sense of the process of time to our experience of the present moment?
His Holiness the Dalai Lama: In Buddhism, the concept of linear time, of time as a kind of container, is not accepted. Time itself, I think, is something quite weak. It depends on some physical basis, some specific thing. Apart from that thing it is difficult to pinpoint—to see time. Time is understood or conceived only in relation to a phenomenon or a process.
DG: Yet the passage of time seems very concrete—the past, the present, aging. The process of time seems very real.
HH: This business of time is a difficult subject. There are several different explanations and theories about time; there is no one explanation in Buddhism. I feel there is a difference between time and the phenomena on which time is projected. Time can be spoken of only in relation to phenomena susceptible to change, which because they are susceptible to change are transitory and impermanent. “Impermanent” means there is a process. If there is no process of change, then one cannot conceive of time in the first place.
The question is whether it is possible to imagine an independent time which is not related to any particulars, any object that goes through change. In relation to such an object, we can talk about the past of that thing, its present state, and its future; but without relation to such particulars, it is very difficult to conceive of an instant of time totally independent of a particular basis.”
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This video clip is from The Tudors.
King Henry the eighth reflects on loss.
He asks his beloved friend Charles Brandon…
What loss is to man most irrecoverable?
Charles answers virtue and then honour.
Henry says that by his actions man can redeem his virtue.
He may also find the means to recover his honour as he recovers fortune that has been lost.
Henry answers…
Of all losses time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0RME0FD1_k
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I highly recommend watching The Tudors if you haven’t seen it yet…
Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ performance as Henry VIII is unforgettable to say the least.
Long live the king!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTiL8pgNqhs
Have a surrealist day 😉
Peace & Namaste…
