DUS GSUM


Sorry I've been busy with work, so I have not had time to do all the postings, switched jobs. Anyway, as for time, that's dus, and there's an expression dus gsum, the three times. It means the past, current time and the future.

Buddhas are beyond those restrictions, they operate outside the forced perceptions of past, current, and future time. So worrying about time and what is happening is grasping to something that can't be found, something like a fixed time.

As an experiment, chop a moment of time into a beginning part and end part, and chop the beginning part into its own beginning and end, and so on and so on. Ultimately, using logic, you can't find a fixed, discrete time unit. So the notion of a flowing time is another projection or grasping to something fixed that has no self-existence.

Anyway, hopefully that helped me solve my dilemma of not having time to do postings! If nothing else, we continue with this in the next lifetime (which is also a projection forced on grasping to self-existent things).