[Buddha-l] RE: Time is Not Real

[Michael J. Wilson]

  I once asked a Tibetan Rinpoche, fresh out of the wilds of Alaska, through his European translator, if there was a word for "synchronicity" in Tibetan.  He asked me to define that.  I gave a kind of J. B. Priestly ('Man and Time') and Carl Jung definition.  He replied: "It is all maya."
   
  I think I have posted this before, deja vu.  Since it is Valentine's day, and if you are interested in a love story novel about time travel, I recommend 'The Time Traveller's Wife' by  Audrey Niffenegger
   
  All the best
  Mike
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/015602943X/103-7700360-7488604?v=glance&n=283155
   
  From Publishers Weekly
This clever and inventive tale works on three levels: as an intriguing science fiction concept, a realistic character study and a touching love story. Henry De Tamble is a Chicago librarian with "Chrono Displacement" disorder; at random times, he suddenly disappears without warning and finds himself in the past or future, usually at a time or place of importance in his life. This leads to some wonderful paradoxes. From his point of view, he first met his wife, Clare, when he was 28 and she was 20. She ran up to him exclaiming that she'd known him all her life. He, however, had never seen her before. But when he reaches his 40s, already married to Clare, he suddenly finds himself time travelling to Clare's childhood and meeting her as a 6-year-old. The book alternates between Henry and Clare's points of view, and so does the narration. Reed ably expresses the longing of the one always left behind, the frustrations of their unusual lifestyle, and above all, her overriding love!
  for
 Henry. Likewise, Burns evokes the fear of a man who never knows where or when he'll turn up, and his gratitude at having Clare, whose love is his anchor. The expressive, evocative performances of both actors convey the protagonists' intense relationship, their personal quirks and their reminiscences, making this a fascinating audio.

  
 
    This is quite a remarkable conclusion, in my opinion, because our (or at 
least "my") sense of things is that the present moment is all there is. Maybe 
that's just my delusion. Or is it yours too? Is the notion of time passing the 
ultimate "maya"? 

Regards,

Michael LaTorra

mlatorra at nmsu.edu

   
   

		
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