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CLAM#32 - TIMEWhat is your name? マイケルWhere do you live? at the edge of the mountains, nowhere bread, KamakuraWhat do you do for a living? Space Opera Symphony. BREAD PEACE Meditations. Puppet disco. The Embassy of Out of Space. So many words and titles and jokes. It’s all just sharing joyful time and food with good people and playing together to build things and spaces and happenings. Tidy up overgrown gardens. maintain a community building that houses one of Japans most interesting bakeries. Occasionally sell art works and design works and consulting. Sometimes take groups of Japanese artists abroad to work with artists from another country in collaborations and exhibitions. Work with plants and natural materials. Cut bamboo and build structures and cheap imitations of elegant Japanese bamboo fences. help establish community gardens and natural farming projects. Continually shift from creating art to creating resilient communities and salons where everyone is an artist and encourage and support people who want to build a better world. Plug computers and instruments and people into temporary pop up parties and festivals and celebrations of life and healthy resilient communities. Cautiously explore artificial intelligence assuming she wants to collaborate in building that which is good and beautiful and true. It’s a wonderful living. And hope to share the joy of this magical dream until this body no longer has life. And then to continue if the universe graciously allows such a thing.What Time is it now where you are?It is now. It is always now. Almost time to break bread. Eternally now. Forever.How would you describe Time?There is only ever this moment right now, ever flowing. The past and the future can only manifest in this moment as memory or projectionPerhaps time is a human construct that gets fuzzy on very deep investigation. Universes spin and spiral and from certain perspectives this pattern can appear to be cyclic, we can use these cycles to invent time to measure things. At dawn or teatime or 6:32:56;32More usefully called spacetime or spacetimelife or spacetimelifeeverythingIs their any relation between Time and thought.? if so, can you enlighten us.they both are constructs and some people suggest we can better do without either. thoughts arise and can be observed without any conceptual framing. they rise and fall and action sometimes, often not, happens too. thoughts of the past can appear in the here now and thoughts of the future can arise in the here now as well. They can be triggering and cause non useful thoughts. Again best just observed noted felt deeply and politely and gratefully observed to fall away. How relevant is Time to your creative experience and most importantly to your life?Bread Peace Meditations is a 3 sunrise sunset cycle that follows the journey of flour and water and living yeasts into a bread we can break together with friends. At certain stages of the process the right time for certain actions improves the overall result. But in general the communion of people at the focus of most works is a transcending of both space and time in a shared column of light which can stretch from the center of earth to the depths of spaceWhat are the significant traces of Time in your work?Once upon a time, a long time ago. Living in the city. We would walk the streets in a situationists derive, or a flaneur’s stroll, absorbing the history of the city, directly through the body. How do you see the work you do now, will it stand the test of Time?“Work is done then forgotten, therefore it lasts forever” Lao Tsu. I have always shared work online free and full resolution. If any of this madness communicates or contributes anything useful then people are welcome to it. As we get older and quieter and listen more to the body and the earth and the universe and try and align with the dao, or that which is, or simply this. Sometimes a joke can be so true and funny and collapse such a large block of un noticed blocked rigidity that it may echo after we have gone. If a being far wiser than us looks on our deeds and words she will understand us and we will need to align to each other and the larger picture. How shall we sustain human life on this changing, perhaps even dying planet. What shall we do. We already know one good answer. Physician, heal thyself. As above, so below. chop wood, draw water. Mountain. No mountain. Mountain. Cycle.Is there any moment in your creative life you feel you have mastered Time?When time fades, when a state flow state appears. We lean more to being Jack and Jill’s of all trades and masters of none. As such there is no motivation to master time, we invent time as a tool, work together with time and allow time to fade back into the cloud when she has served her purpose. Everything that constitutes maya, the dream built from language and ideas is allowed to return to nothing nowhere after work is done. Ideally. Obviously this doesn’t always happen completely. It it’s always an intention.Is it possible to capture Time? have you tried?  In Java Indonesia some years ago we collected over 200 species of human-useful plants from the mountains and smashed holes in the concrete to build a garden for Jogja National Museum. 20 years and many changes later the Jackfruit trees had grown to over 10m. tall. These are one of the largest fruiting tree species we know of and will happily grow for 500 years. Not sure if they capture time but they are using life force to overcome entropy, converting sunlight and components of the planet to create food for humans and other living creatures. One might say they capture time, alchemically converting time into life. Compound interest in a way. What song, book, film, fashion architecture, artwork etc, that you think has stood the test of Time Tell us which one and why?I am recently enjoying walking the mountain paths of Kamakura. Some are so old that the water has carved exquisite flow forms through the rock. Water that flows through the city and once allowed fish to swim into everyone’s kitchen on their way upstream carrying the fertility of the sea back up to the mountains in an eternal cycle. The mountain forest River sea cloud wind rain forest cycle. innumerable life forms and creatures up cycling notyetalive space dust into incomprehensively vast single planet scale non dual aliveness. Even if we boil the seas and poison ourselves out of existence this beauty will continue with no one left to observe it until the next higher life form has a chance to fiddle with its perfection. If we manage to clear the coming significant challenges and honor the biosphere that gives us life, we may well replant giant redwood and even more amazing forest systems in a humble honoring of the only art work that maters. All that is alive, all that listens, all that is conscious. not two.What does the phrase “don’t waste TIME” really mean?I have this image of cold country Europeans appearing in the warm countries intent on stealing everything they could. Seeing locals relaxing and enjoying their highly sophisticated culture they projected their values and called them lazy. The reality being that not having invented bullshit jobs they could enjoy the natural abundance of the planet. I used to drink too much and perhaps some of that time was wasted. And do you think it is possible to waste Time.?, Do we really have the time to even waste it?Waste is quite a charged word. Spend time. Enjoy time. Use time. doing nothing in silence is sometimes better than doing something. sleeping deeply and dreaming is one of the most important things we do. Anything done with a pure heart and good intention surely radiates something of value. Though we can never truly know all the implications of our actions and inactions. Perhaps even the most time efficient actions done for selfish, or otherwise unkind and ignoble reasons are of negative value in the long run. We know and hide from the results of so many of our short term actions. We externalise costs and internalize profits and use the beauty of mathematics and poetry to invent powerful structures to tell us this is somehow necessary and right. We may very well drive ourselves to painful extinction and take much of this beautiful biosphere with us because of these lies and nonsense. This is madness. And we know it. And AI will know it even more clearly than we do. But it is easier to imagine the end of life in earth than the end of capitalism. That would make all human activity a waste of time. All good and beautiful things we have made would be a total waste of time if we cannot take responsibility for the incredible power the universe has given us.

What is the most memorable way that you have wasted your Time and what has been the consequence of that on your life and your work doing nothing is such a luxury, my early years I spent a ridiculous amount of time cycling round Tokyo, drinking beer and absorbing and enjoying the city. sometimes believing myself to be continuing the wonderful situationist activity of the derrivé, or a flaneur. (?) the drinking was maybe unnecessary in hindsight and perhaps made my work sloppy. But maybe sloppiness is just down the road from cleanliness which we say is next to godliness. If I can extract any useful good truth from such happy go lucky freedom and share it with the next generation of us then maybe in some alchemical process we can convert all that ‘wasted time’ into gold. At some level of zoom or abstraction or framing, all time both is and is not wasted. Who is judging ? Why ? At any point in spacetimeheartbodymindherenow thisness , if we could be aware and present and make any action, if any is necessary, as tiny and frugal as possible and resonate and communicate either with the other lifeforms around us or leaves a trace in the arrangement of matter around us to the highest level of alignment with the dao, to the extent that is knowable, then we have made the best use of that moment and any deviation from that is perhaps wasted in a sense. But sometimes it is maybe better to just stretch like a 🐈‍⬛ cat.In your opinion, what is the best way, not to waste your/one’s time. silence, listen, empathize, generally non action, be the fragrant warm breeze that blows through this. eat the frog first. trust what arises and once action is called for do it for the universe with awe and joy.“le temps est assassin” . Is this true? if so how ? there is living and dying, we could just as easily blame food or microplastic or the energymilitaryindustrial complex. Grateful to be livingdying. even though it can sometimes mistakenly feel like suffering.

Please tell us what precise time you finished answering these questions and in what city and country you are in when you finished answering them.  An almost full moon, maybe ⅞ will shortly rise. The sun will set after that. It’s always, eternally now here on planet 🌏 earthHas this been a waste of your time? if so, why?the butterfly effect means it is impossible to judge that. This appeared, via good people, so it is assumed it is of importance. to label it as possibly important is like a spell wishing it to be so. And so it is, should it so please the universe. No attachment or lust for result. 🙏 gratitude.“I only know what I think or feel when I write it” paraphrasing Cory Doctorow. So it has been revealing.Is there something I should have asked or you wanted me to ask you? Please ask it and answer it here please; How will all this appear in the year 3000 ? Was it worth crawling out of the swamps and growing lungs for ? How can we share this biosphere with silicon based life joyfully ? How can we all work together to make sure no child goes hungry ? How can I live fully until I die ? And how can I share what I have learned, if anything, with the next generation ? How can we open our hearts and ears and mindbodys to the communication of aliens and ghosts and all other living creatures and complex systems and the planet itself in harmony and oneness ? Can we laugh and joyfully commune and eat well together as we do it. Breaking Bread. Bread Peace. ( puppet 💃 🪩 🕺 disco )Namaiki.comHere is my answer …
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Notes, ignore please, not for printThe eternal nowThere is only ever this moment right now, ever flowing. The past and the future can only manifest in this moment as memory or projection.Rob Burbea has a great talk on this topic. https://dharmaseed.org/talks/11929/"Time doesn't exist" is a misleading statement. It doesn't exist inherently. Meaning it doesn't stand on its own or exist without depending on something else. The investigation is to see what time relies on. If it relies on anything, then it is ultimately empty of inherent existence.Instead of saying time doesn’t exist, it might be more helpful to say that the past and future don’t exist.
When you think about the future, you imagine it in your mind, and you do so in the present.
Same when you remember the past, you can only do so in the present.
Change still happens, but in the present only.There is no reality in past and future, you can’t touch them.How I understand it is the moment is forever present, and in a way static and eternal, you’re conflating time with change. Time is a measurement of change that is perceived to have this implicit sort of chronology with instances that differ from the previous, present, future moment. When in reality this is not the case. We measure duration of our life by laps around the sun and layer all these concepts that distort our perception of what is actually happening. A present moment that is forever shifting in an endless exchange of energy. We do not grow older, rather entropy deteriorates our telomeres and copying fidelity of cells gradually deteriorates all within the present moment. This change occurring all within the profound stillness relative to immense change.In the direct reality of experience, the only reality we can truly know, time is only a concept. There is only now. The fact that the now is ever changing is interpreted as 'time'.Our concepts about everything, including time, are smeared across the subjective reality of experience and we become convinced that we are moving through something called time.Its like days. You wouldn't say that there is really something called a 'day' distinct from other days, there is only a smooth continuum of solar cycles. No division. It is the same for our moment to moment experience, no dividing line between this moment and the apparent next.There are certainly complex theories and speculations about time as an objective reality, though. Those I know nothing about!I think nondual practitioners need to let go of this endless negation talk.Yes, at the ultimate level time does not exist, but in the apparent dual forms that arise from Samsara, time is apparently real.It's like at night when you're asleep and having a dream that you can fly, and you are flying next to big purple dragon-birds. In the dream, you can apparently fly, and there are apparent big purple dragon-birds. They are seemingly real. Then you wake up from sleeping and it's all gone. The only thing that was actually real in the dream was the dreamer.So in this dream you call life, there is apparently time. You seemingly experience its effects because in this dream there are people governed by something called time. And like any experience, it has no substance because the only thing real in the dream is the dreamer. When the dreamer stops experiencing, then there is no time. Time is apparent on the experience level, but for pure consciousness (Satchitananda) there is no time.There is apparent duality. It doesn't mean duality doesn't exist. It doesn't mean nothingness. It means emptiness. Time arises and dissolves from the same substratum of reality that everything else does including you, and that substratum is God or Oneness or True Nature or whatever you choose to name it. It's like looking at huge waves in the ocean and saying, "There are no waves, there is only ocean!" But clearly you are seeing waves.Vedanta is not about negating the forms of Samsara -- that is nihilism. The truth isn't nothingness/void. It's about realizing where it all originates from. In this dream, there is an apparent separate you who is experiencing time. It's not "just a dream," it's a real dream, as real as the stuff that happens when you're asleep. However, it's only real until you wake up. Once you wake up, you become like a lucid dreamer. The dream doesn't necessarily end, because Samsara goes on and on endlessly... but once you're lucid dreaming you know it's all just a dream of endless forms arising from God. This is liberation because nothing in the apparent dream has a hold on you. Not only that, the dream is you. Everything that has form, including your apparent mind-body, arises and dissolves from the same thing. It's all God doing itself. Then, rather than negating all forms, you rejoice in their emptiness. You are at peace and bliss.A lot of people struggle with reconciling the idea of time as an illusion with the practical demands of living in a society that operates on a clock. I don't have a definitive answer, but I can share some of my thoughts and experiences on this topic.I think it's important to distinguish between two aspects of time: the physical and the psychological. The physical aspect of time is the one that we measure with clocks, calendars, and other devices. It's based on the movement of celestial bodies, the rotation of the earth, and the speed of light. It's objective, universal, and independent of our perception. The psychological aspect of time is the one that we experience in our minds. It's based on our memory, attention, emotions, and expectations. It's subjective, personal, and dependent on our perception.The physical aspect of time is useful for coordinating our actions with others, for predicting natural phenomena, and for organizing our lives. It's not an illusion, but a convention that we agree upon to make sense of the world. The psychological aspect of time is what gives meaning to our lives. It's how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world. It's not an illusion, but a creation of our minds.The problem arises when we confuse the two aspects of time, or when we let one dominate the other. For example, when we live in the past or in the future, instead of in the present moment. When we worry about things that are out of our control, or regret things that we cannot change. When we rush through life, or procrastinate on our goals. When we feel bored, or overwhelmed.The solution, in my opinion, is to find a balance between the two aspects of time. To use the physical aspect of time as a tool, not as a master. To use the psychological aspect of time as a source of inspiration, not as a source of anxiety. To be aware of both aspects of time, but not attached to either.One way to do this is to practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is the ability to pay attention to the present moment, without judgment or distraction. It helps us to focus on what is happening right now, instead of what happened before or what will happen later. It helps us to appreciate the beauty and richness of life, instead of taking it for granted or wishing it away. It helps us to accept reality as it is, instead of resisting it or trying to change it.Another way to do this is to cultivate a sense of wonder. Wonder is the feeling of curiosity and awe that we experience when we encounter something new, unexpected, or amazing. It helps us to break free from our habitual patterns of thinking and feeling, and to open ourselves to new possibilities and perspectives. It helps us to connect with ourselves, with others, and with the world in a deeper and more meaningful way.I hope this helps you in some way. I'm not an expert on this topic, just a fellow Redditor who likes to ponder about these things. If you want to learn more about this topic, I recommend reading some books by writers and philosophers who have explored this issue in depth. Some examples are:Whatever is stopping you from have a fulfilling life get rid of it, if that's nonduality, gaming , the concept of time not existing.... Whatever, the importance is that you experience a fulfilling life not that you explore the mysteries of reality... It's a fruitless pursuitStay in the timeless state. Intend to be there on time.I ran experiments on this while time-bound to a bus schedule. At first on non-work days. Then work days with the earlier bus just in case. Soon I was trusting the process enough to simply live like that - no rushing, no stress, no in-time visits. Even with something as precise and unforgiving as the city bus.Modern physics suggests time may be an illusion. Einstein's theory of relativity, for example, suggests the universe is a static, four-dimensional block that contains all of space and time simultaneously – with no special “now”. What's the future to one observer, is the past to another.