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    1. 02-10-2008 02:20 PM #1
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      It gets even more interesting when one realizes that even thoughts of past memory and potential future occurrance can only happen in the moment.


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      The worst part is, your perception of what is now is actually a few milliseconds ago. Not only can we not experience the distant past or the future, but we can't actually experience now, only just before now.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Xaqaria View Post
      The worst part is, your perception of what is now is actually a few milliseconds ago. Not only can we not experience the distant past or the future, but we can't actually experience now, only just before now.
      What about through meditation?
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      You can always bring back feelings of the past, though with a slight sense of nostalgia.

      In general, enjoy the moment, because it's all you have.
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      I was thinking about this alot lately actually. It also includes a method of releiving stress, one that works for me, where you just stay in the present moment and think of the past as meaningless and doesn't exist anymore, and the future as not existing yet. all and all theres still problems where it doesn't seem to help much.



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      Quote Originally Posted by Bonsay View Post
      What about through meditation?
      Does meditation increase the speed of your neuron's action potentials?

      It's pretty much the whole 'light cones' deal. In order for you to process information from the 'outside world', you first need to receive it. This always takes some nonzero amount of time. Just like we are seeing what the stars looked like years and years and years ago, we are also seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling and tasting what the world around us was like a few milliseconds ago.
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      The title of this thread is the answer to this thread.
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      I posted this video elsewhere just yesterday, but if anything it's more relevant to this subject. It's Alan Watts talking about the nature of time, the past and present, and causality. It's broken in 3 parts, about 20 minutes total.

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      If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama


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      Quote Originally Posted by Xaqaria View Post
      The worst part is, your perception of what is now is actually a few milliseconds ago. Not only can we not experience the distant past or the future, but we can't actually experience now, only just before now.
      It has been calculated that the delay between phenomenon and its actual "experience" is 1/10,000th of a second. This is because of the inherent editing system called the ego/mind.

      The inherent ego/mind is analogous to a tape monitor/playback system. What is recorded and edited is played back in "real-time". So "experience" of phenomena is the result what is an automatic distortion. Without editing/distortion, the Brilliance of Reality stands revealed beyond all description.
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      has anyone ever tried to write every detail of every moment in their life and create an exact autobiography?i used to say nothing was impossible......this is...i have been defeated . oh wells.
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