Time

I was just listening to George Carlin's "Napalm and Silly Putty". He was a master of wordplay. His jousting and unravelling of our “time” vocabulary is worth the listening too – it is around the 12 minute mark. But he brings up so many good points.

Time has always fascinated me I wrote a Master's Thesis investigating the nature of time. Many pilosophers have treated this subject yet although they grapple with it, they never master it

Time is fluid It is an oscillation which is not always the same. And it can be suspended if you can step into that oscillation. Doubt me?

Let's examine it then. When you are not engaged in an activity, time goes slowly, correct? Yet when you are having a wonderful time, what happens? Time is gone in a flash.. And if you have a favourite activity, one that you are good at and love to do – time will seem not to have passed at all. Doubt me now?

Here's a fact that surprized me when I found it out. Do you remember the Accutron watches? They were the watches, that had a tuning fork inside to run it. Most of our watches are not the winding kind anymore, but they use a quartz crystal. \The crystal receives a pulse and generates the running of the mechanism The crystal mechanism is surrounded by an aluminum shield. Why aluminum? They use aluminum because apparently the aluminum blocks spikes in the fluctuation of the pulse It keeps the time regular. The Accutron watches did not have aluminum shielding, which made the watches unreliable. Unreliable? Is time unreliable and we have been covering it up? Is this another coverup?

We have never explicity told that time is reliable and that time is always the same yet somehow we have absorbed this idea.

Our own experiences and experiences and the Accutron watch are enough to clue us in to the truth: Time is not a constant.

And if it is not then what is it ? And more importantly why are we such slaves to it? Why do we rely on it?

Suddenly, making appointments on time doesn't seem such a priority to me. Just sayin'....  

Principle 1   Have a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing (Vedas scripture)

                              (Be difficult to offend – Listen to everyone’s point of view without judgment)

                              (Be open minded and detached)

Principle 2   You can’t give away what you don’t have.  You have to be love to give love.

                              (If you try to love someone, but don’t love yourself, you can’t)

                              (Be the change you want to see)

Principle 3   There are NO justified resentments.  Blame has no place in your life.

                              (A snake bite will not kill you.  But the venom which stays in you will.)

                              (If you carry resentment for any reason, that resentment will harm you.)

                              (Ptangeles, Yoga Sutra.  If you become steadfast in your abstentions of thoughts of  harm concerning others, all living creatures will cease to feel enmity toward you in your presence.)

Principle 4    Don’t die with your music still in you!

                              (Thoreau:  Some of us march to a different drummer) We need everyone to actualize their potential

                              (Live your passion)

Principle 5   Embrace silence. 

                              (Go to the place within you where there is no division, there you find the                                  answer)

                              (Go into nature)

Principle 6   Giving up your personal history.

                              (Embrace the facts of the past – they made you.  But give up your attachment to the past.  Live in the now.  You can create what you want regardless of your past.)

                              (Like the wake and the boat:  The wake does not make the boat go)

Principle 7   You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it.

                              (Rewrite you cognitive map – admit you were wrong.  Move on!)

                              (I no longer intend to make the same choices which have not served me, so I choose differently now)

                              Successful relationships are built on keeping your focus on the positive.

Principle 8   Treating yourself as though you already were what you want to become.

(Fake it till you make it – comes from “Let the weak man say I am strong” Bible)

(Words have power – what you think and feel expands)

Principle 9           Treasuring your divinity  (You are part of the all around you and the Source)

Principle 10         Wisdom is avoiding every thought that will weaken you. 

                              (When you are having a thought that is disempowering you – shift it into the positive.
Namaste!

The lyrics are so great!  I remember the stupidity of the exams I had to write to get a degree.  So many smart people got turfed out - not because they didn't have brains but because they couldn't learn the ropes fast enough, hang on tight enough, and climb up quick enough to stay in the top percentile.  The people who actually make it are not necessarily the smartest, just the best game players.  That is not really a compliment.  At least the engineers have a sense of humour about the whole thing.  As always of course there is that inevitable student in one of the rows, still writing the test.  He'll probably work for the government one day.

perception but that doesn't mean you simply accept their take on something as the truth.  
Let's take a simple case in point:  The photo on the left represents part of my harvest of veggies from my small garden.  My perception is that my harvest was a very satisfying one. Considering I didn't put hours and hours of work into it, I was extraordinarily pleased to have lots to eat, freeze and share with others. Someone else might have a different perception. A master gardener given the same opportunity, plot of land, northern summer, might raise five times my harvest and thus have the perception that my harvest is meager.  Where is the truth?  The truth is something wider:  when it comes to gardening your time, effort, and expertise make for a different harvest.  (The weather makes a big difference too!) 
Our perceptions are often coloured by unresolved emotional or subconscious issues.  These can obscur the truth of what is in front of us. If someone has been bullied as a child, they may perceive a situation in a school yard as bullying more readily than someone who never had that experience.  That doesn't mean the particular situation is bullying.  If the incident involved children who are equals in power, it is a conflict and not bullying.  An investigation of the facts would let one know whether it was or was not a bullying situation.  Misinterpretations abound due to limited perception, yet truth remains.  
Staying positive in a sea of other people's perceptions demands a centred core of understanding about who one is.  People may perceive things about you (Or think they do!) and while their perceptions are worth checking out, they are not necessarily truth.  A job situation, while seen by some as hopeless, is seen by another as a challenge and taken on with relish.  The person who sees it positively is often successful after a time, while the one who saw the situation as hopeless and kept reinforcing this belief by telling others how nothing could be done to rectify it, is incredulous faced with the other's success.  Positive thinking is the simple outward sign of a deeper creation process at work here.  In truth our existence is often devoid of negative or positive until we pass judgment on it.  If our subconscious mind or our experiences colour it negative, then we see it that way, if not then we are open to the positive aspects.  
Perception is not truth.  Truth is truth.  But perception colouring our reality can make that perception become our reality.  Then it would true enough, I suppose.  Comments?