Buddhist Studies: What is Time?
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The full study of Buddhism requires inquiry into our view of our selves, our experience, and reality itself. Over the course of 2500 years, the philosophical tradition has developed a variety of approaches for deepening our understanding of reality itself.
This course will offer an overview of the Atomist, Sutric, Middle Way, and Mind Only approaches to relative and ultimate truth. Never intended to be abstract philosophy, we will view the approaches of these schools as psychological tools for seeing how we see ultimate truth moment by moment, as well as how our habitual deceptions ( so-called “wrong views”) make their way into our thoughts, emotions, actions and culture.
Main Texts Used in this Series:
Living Yogacara by Tagawa Shun'ei
Sun of Wisdom by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso
Drop in Price:
$15 Per Class
$10 for IDP Full Members
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They say that time changes
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. ~Andy Warhol
No Present Moment
Time moves faster than our senses. That which we perceive as a "present moment" has already departed. All life is a dream. It's over before we "know" it. Impermance is ALL we know.
~Hal
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
~Shakepeare, The Tempest