Not Tiring of Defeat Leads to Victory

5 Comments

1. ortiz
   Posted February 19, 2010 at 6:37 pm | #

   Is it possible for you to look at it without the word bench? The instrument you are using to look at and experience the bench is the past, your past. If that is seen there is no future at all. Any achievement you are interested in is in the future. The only way that the future can come into operation is in the present moment. Unfortunately, in the present moment what is in operation is the past. Your past is creating your future; in the past you were happy or unhappy, foolish or wise, in the future you will be the opposite. So the future can’t be any the different from the past.

   When the past is not in operation there is no “present” at all, for what you are calling the “present” is the past repeating itself. In an actual state of “here and now” there is no past in operation and, therefore, no future. I do not know if you are following me…. The only way the past can survive and maintain its continuity is through the constant demand to experience the same thing over and over.

   From your knowledge, out of the past, you ask questions, and the very motive of your asking is only to gain more knowledge from someone else, so that your knowledge structure can continue. You are really not interested in this at all. Your knowledge coming to an end means that YOU are coming to an end. “UGK”

2. horimatsu
   Posted February 19, 2010 at 7:50 pm | #

   I follow, and thank you for writing.
   Some further thoughts on my visit to Hiroshima (and other places, every place); In Hiroshima I saw little trace of what happened there August 6th 1945.The remains from the past are simply those that we for different reasons choose to carry with us in the present and from there into the future. By doing so we are in fact still in the past, preventing the Here to come into effect. Also, carrying with us events and destinies from the past, we have little or no chance at all to understand, let alone experience them. Only those that are there at the present moment can do so. The Hiroshima I met was a creation of Knowledge. Of The Past as I tried to relive it (for isn’t that what we do with it, really?), but in fact Hiroshima is for me but a fantasy, a ghost conjured up by the need to be empathic, to carry weights and rescue drowning children.

3. Nell
   Posted February 21, 2010 at 3:08 pm | #

   wow.. i do not follow but i feel.. if there’s no past, there’s no you.. if there’s no you, there’s no today.. if there’s no today, what difference does the passing seconds bring?

4. Bruce
   Posted May 22, 2010 at 8:35 am | #

   I follow, and thank you for writing.
   Some further thoughts on my visit to Hiroshima (and other places, every place); In Hiroshima I saw little trace of what happened there August 6th 1945.The remains from the past are simply those that we for different reasons choose to carry with us in the present and from there into the future. By doing so we are in fact still in the past, preventing the Here to come into effect. Also, carrying with us events and destinies from the past, we have little or no chance at all to understand, let alone experience them. Only those that are there at the present moment can do so. The Hiroshima I met was a creation of Knowledge. Of The Past as I tried to relive it (for isn’t that what we do with it, really?), but in fact Hiroshima is for me but a fantasy, a ghost conjured up by the need to be empathic, to carry weights and rescue drowning children.

5. Steve
   Posted May 29, 2010 at 1:37 am | #

   wow.. i do not follow but i feel.. if there’s no past, there’s no you.. if there’s no you, there’s no today.. if there’s no today, what difference does the passing seconds bring?