would exist if the wind did not find any obstacle to his race? If there were no trees to swing, sand to be lifted, to ruffle the seas, sails swell, people to mess up hair? If viewed from a window, an absurd landscape completely empty, not even grass or clouds ... as we sense the presence or not? It could not even rustle or hiss. And I defy even a weatherman to show me the exact spot of the globe into the source of one of the many winds that even call it by name.
is not trivial to realize that, as we talk about the wind as an everyday phenomenon and familiar, in fact none of us has ever seen or heard if not reflected by its effects ...
For what this discussion that someone might seem a mere two-bit philosophy and useless?
Well on the one hand I like to annoy with questions of principle which could also very usual for only a moment away from the usual way of perceiving reality and mechanical, consider something from a different point of view, as there appears to be absurd, it is a variant that forced to do some gymnastics to make our mind crystallized in the routine of the usual arguments.
On the other hand allows me to draw a parallel with the subject very dear to me of the time. Similarly the wind, in fact, that is perceived by humans only because of its effect, even the existence of time for us due to the fact that we perceive a chain of events that happen, and - apparently - one after another. Let's see the passage of the wind because the trees bend, we see (or think we see) the passage of time because things happen. Now, if already in several places I stopped to consider the question of time, it is because I sense that breaking the timetable that has been passed and that we take for granted would break perhaps the heaviest of chains that keep us imprisoned. Many thinkers / authors present (and already said so in his own way Pascal in the seventeenth century.) Explain that the mind is to perceive time as linear and to situate the events one after another, but in reality the time is a dimension infinite and as such can not have a before and after. While the past is no longer and that the future is not yet all there is the present, the eternal now. This statement also forms the basis of the famous motto Carpe Diem nowadays so abused as misunderstood.
Assuming therefore as good and true that premise, I wondered how you can personally get out of the linear view of time it is natural as human beings of the twenty-first century. In fact, one thing is becoming aware (intellectually) that we live in an eternal present moment, and that past and future are only mental projections, another is to get to hear , and live this reality, entering into another dimension existence. The idea that came was that the images in this case can perhaps help to re-schedule better than words. Until now, the time when I thought I always thought - imagine how many - from a straight line tends to infinity, but still a line. So it was inevitable that the various moments / events of existence as dots placed one after the other along this line. It is not easy to get out of this vision so strongly entrenched. So I decided to create me a new image, which could represent the time no longer in a linear fashion, but on time. I wondered how I "scrub" this enemy that does not seem to leave lobster (although in reality the enemy is not the time, but our mind that we represent it in a certain way)? How can I relate to what happens to me I get up, wash myself, get dressed, I go to work, come home, I go on holiday, etc etc ... without seeing these things in succession? ...
I remembered having heard that the only point of a hurricane where you can stay safe is your eye, that his heart: here the wind (here it is again) - deadly if you do find its trajectory - it becomes harmless ... The comparison is obvious: the only place where we will find peace in the whirl of time that seemed to suck if not to win his center and there remain buildings?
So I'm currently trying with this picture (the best I could find, but good ideas are welcome!): I think of time as a rose and I as contained in its nucleus, this rose blooms continuously and every event is a radial New petals that open. In this way no longer run after time (or I do not drag from him) but I am still, as he blossoms around me. I hope this view, applied consistently, can go hand in hand to change my perception of time, so you always see me in the place of greatest power, that is at the heart of the eternal now.
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