Zen Story: Our time, and God's time
By emptychair
@innertalks (23744)
Australia
April 18, 2022 11:52pm CST
The old Zen master, Arish Akista, was now approaching 80 years of age.
He still had little idea on what time was, or what it meant for him, in his life.
Was time the real master of his life, and which would eventually kill him too?
Is time separate to everything else, or is it a part of each separate part of the Universe, only relative to that part, or does time exist independently in its way to all else too, so that God lives from the ultimate time, and timing himself, and really then all happens in his time, of which we can never know the timing of, ourselves?
His own master, Zerlok Zerloxke, had told him this about time, a long time ago now, and he was long dead now too.
"Time is an icing on the cake of life, which gives life a flavour to taste over time."
"Without the icing, life just is a blob of itself, but with time, you see the blob more clearly as something, and taste its wares then too."
"God remains untimed, and yet timed, at the same time, as he created time to be time, but then he can change time in an instant too, and reverse engineer all too, if he ever wanted to do so."
"God controls time. We just have to live with it."
"We live with time, until time is done with us. It is God's time that steps into our time then, though, and ends our lives, at the right time, of his choosing."
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"There are no secrets that time does not reveal."
Jean Racine, a French Dramatist. (1639 - 1699)
He might have some type of a point there, but those secrets hidden within God's time, we will never see.
We can only see secrets revealed within our own time, and each person's revealing of such secrets adds to the overall unsecreted picture, of Mankind's then too. God keeps many secrets up his sleeves though, that are not included within the picture, revealed by our time, that is not the same as his time.
There are no secrets that time does not reveal, unless they are buried in God's sand pit.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
19 Apr 22
Yes, and if we are an ostrich, and bury our head in God's sand pit, looking for the secrets hidden there, that usually never works either.
Truth comes to us mostly when we are ready for it, because we have earnt it at that point in our life.
I just want to add that time waits on no one.
So donot waste time. Do all the good you can because you never know when your number will be called.@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
19 Apr 22
Yes, our time doesn't wait for us, but God's time might do so, as God is patient, and he waits for us to learn our lessons, and gives us chance after chance to learn them, but then again, as you said too, when our time is up, because it now matches God's time for the length of our life too, he then cuts our time off, and we enter another place, in another time then too.
Our time can be wasted, but God's time can never be wasted, and that is the difference between our time, and his time.
@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
19 Apr 22
Yes, I hope that some more of God's secrets are revealed to us all one day too.
For now, they seem to be still hidden from us. There is so much for us still to find out, and to learn.
@Shiva49 (28394)
• Singapore
19 Apr 22
That depends on our awareness too and the mental faculty to understand.
Most of the time we are like headless chickens running hither and thither.
During each stage of our lives, we have different perceptions too and time plays its part in understanding what life is about as we go through them.
We need to admit that we are not up there to understand the whole process as we are just another of the species out to do God's bidding. Unless God reveals himself, we might not make much of a headway.
In a way, it is a blessing that our time is limited here as there is no point in lingering around more than necessary. We could well be redeployed later! God's way is " I am not done with you yet, anytime soon, and that means infinity! "
Einstein said:
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.".
So, we have enough time to make sense of the universe and what our lives are about.
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@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
19 Apr 22
We do try to reach above our position, and inflate our status, and try to be God, in our life.
Perhaps, this is possible for us though, as a few times, God has intervened to stop us from reaching that high, towards his status.
He kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden of Eden, or paradise, because they were gaining too much knowledge there, and might gain more.
God has a vested interest in our continuing "dumbness" then. He prefers just blind faithful love, like a dog gives to its owner.
God wants us to be his pet dogs.
Another story in the Bible confirms this view too. The people were building a tall tower that was reaching into Heaven, where he was, called the tower of Babel.
Perhaps, this was some type of a connective communication device that allowed them to hear God's thoughts, or something, like that.
God destroyed that connection to him too, afraid of it, it seems too.
Einstein said that God does not play dice with the world, but he does make sure that the dice he gives us to play with are limited in their outcomes. God does not want us to rival him in our knowledge, it seems.
He wants us to be more lapdogs, at his feet, than, equals to him, in our minds.
He wants our hearts to be always bigger than our minds.
{The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”}
Genesis, chapter 11, verses 6, and 7, from the Christian Bible.
God, seems to not want us to live as Einstein suggested that we must do so. God seems to want to keep us shackled, prisoned, and to not widen our circles.
@innertalks (23744)
• Australia
20 Apr 22
@Shiva49 I have the feeling that we are just some type of an experiment with God too.
He experimented first with dinosaurs, and the like, and then he decided to base mankind on his own image instead, but he must have given man an imaged brain of God too, as Man then tried to climb the ladder back to his creator, but God wanted the distance between them to be kept in place, perhaps for his own reasons too.
God ensures that he has the last laugh then.
This should not upset us; we just need to learn to laugh at God's jokes too.
Why is God good?
He owes it to us, with that extra "O", inserted into his name.
Apart from that, good is just another name for God, that we can sigh, "Oh", over too.
@Shiva49 (28394)
• Singapore
21 Apr 22
@innertalks Tough to be like God but then we can become more like the reverse spelling - dog, at its master's beck and call!
The reality is the tail is wagging the dog with our conscience kept under wraps most times, just an afterthought at most.
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