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Re:On the Nature of Time by neom on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @09:34PM (#41783612)
Every time I read stuff like this I get super drawn to thinking about Sunyata* - In Mahayana buddhism, my understanding is that Sunyata doesn't mean absolute nothingness or no existence, but all things are devoid of intrinsic, independent existence. Everything is empty of inherent nature because everything is interdependent... phenomena exist only in relation to causes and conditions. This relational existence assumes that things do not possess an unchanging essence... the ultimate sense, there is no fixed reality. What might seem like "everything" is actually permeated by "nothingness" or "emptiness" and that phenomena arise dependent on conditions, without intrinsic, permanent nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81

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Re:On the Nature of Time by darshanime on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @09:42PM (#41783650)
Sunyata comes from Sunya, which in Sanskrit means "zero", another idea invented by the Indians.
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Re:On the Nature of Time by kridsdale3 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @01:31AM (#41784783)
My mind also went here when reading TFA.

The all-time-all-space-all-branches brane of the Ruliad we call the Universe is the continuous one-ness and our selves are just the single-perspective projection models of that universe in our neurons that persist across edits to the neurons, until such as point as we update the model to see the larger picture and we can call that Nirvana, if we wish.

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Re:On the Nature of Time by throwaway_4179 on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:04PM (#41800267)
Indeed. Not only that, but it can be a lived experience. One sees that the need for something called "time" is actually an invention of the mind, and totally unnecessary. I know this sounds bizarre and like mystical woo-woo, but when it's seen, it's the simplest and most obvious thing in the world.
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Re:On the Nature of Time by neom on Thursday October 10, 2024 @04:58PM (#41803533)
Doesn't seem like woo-woo - if there isn't even mind, how can there be time? ;) it makes sense, at least to this Buddhist lol.
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