[Buddha-l] Re: Where does authority for "true" Buddhism come from?

[Jim Peavler]

On Feb 4, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:
>
> Something real can only exist in time. So time must be real. Only  
> the present moment exists however. The past is only what we  
> remember and the future is what we expect to happen. Time without  
> past and present cannot exist, therefore time doesn't exist, so  
> nothing exists.
> In a more positive way several philosophers (a.o. Eliade, Husserl  
> and Bourdieu) have stressed that we make time by thinking back and  
> thinking ahead. So we do indeed dream our lifes (together).
>

Time is the thing other than distance and energy that changes when  
two or more bodies move in relation to each other. If there were only  
one body or if nothing moved there would be no time. (Maybe, if the  
universe is actually one thing as its name implies, there is no time  
for the universe.)

Oh dear! Now I am completely confused!