Time and looking back at your life when your old


Presentism in a philosophical view means that only the present moment exists.
That's the view in mindfulness too.

We should live in the here end now as much as possible.
You can argue that there is no permanent now and maybe no now at all, since time is flowing like a stream.

But you can also say that we can reach a kind of eternal state in meditqtion, anyway in the space between the different  feelings and thoughts that always will occur.

But of course we cannot stop aging. We will always be a part of the conventional world. Even the Gurus, even Buddha was

In presentism the past has gone and the future is not yet here. That seems natural.

But Einstein pushed that intuitive view a bit.
His idea is is the one of block-time.
The future is already there somewhere and the past exist too.

This can be explained in different ways.
Biu as you know it is proven that time passes faster on a mountain that in the valley beneath.

Gravitation slows up time and bends space, or spacetime.

Here Brian Greene explains Einstein's View:



Past, present and future are all there in different blocks of time.

That would probably mean that we live in a deterministic world. If the future already is there, there is no room for chance. So we can relax, as in meditation. What will be will be, and we can do nothing about it.

Others mean that the arrow of time is real. Time is not like space, where you can travel from one place to another and back. Time  has just one direction. And the past is really gone. And that is what we all think

Big Bang that started time in  a small and smooth place with very low entropy and goes to more and more entropy - chaos.
So time and entropy are linked together.
We are just an exception, the earth  has been more and more in order, at least to recent years.
And our brains are the most complex thing on earth, at least until now....

But in the long run the universe will be more and  more cold and spread out.

In quantum physics time is not needed. And chance seem to play a big role. So in the quantum world there is no determinism. Einstein didn't like that.
But that may be the only way for some freedom for us.
That and meditation. If we become aware of our thoughts and feelings, we may not be slaves under them.

The feelings can be stuck in the past, like a time machine. We may want revenge for something that happened long ago. With meditation and maybe by writing about it we can get some distance from the past, maybe see it from other people's point of view.



The fate of the universe is a bit like the fate of a man.
To get colder and more outspread. in the end to be still.

We  will lose many of my abilities.

But we can still look back at our lives.

That's subjective time: An aroma can remind us of past times. We can dream about the dead ones.
And if we had lived a peaceful and compassionate life, anyway most of it, we can probably die in peace.
The bad thing we to too others  will probably be with us too the end.  Many people that have had NDU:s report that they will feel what others, that you have interacted with have felt.
Both in good and in bad.
And the moment seem to be here and now or out of time. You can visit the moments and see yourself from above.

So maybe Einstein was right when he said that time is an illusion, however a consistent one.



Sean Carroll, a splendid pedagoge as Green, speaks, in the end of a series of lectures, a new and still speculative idea; There may be many baby universes out there born from the rest of black holes.
If our universe will shrink back to be a black hole, there may be anwe universe born of it.
It doesn't seem to be that way now, but who knows.

And who now a more interesting phenomena than time, here in the eyes of the famous director Andrei Tarksovsky:


                           




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