Daily Quote, Sunday May 17, 2009.

Good foggy morning again.

It's marathon day in Halifax, as in running, if everyone can find the route. I wonder if anyone will consider that there can be no route to the end. :-)

I was thinking about the quote today in the context of sacrifice. We have to sacrifice happiness to find what is timeless. This is because we are always the happiness. Not we are and then happy, but are the happiness.

Happiness is not the product of time.

The thought process brings about psychological progress in time, but is it real, as real as chronological time? And, can we use that time which is of the mind as a means of understanding the eternal, the timeless? Because, as I said, happiness is not of yesterday, happiness is not the product of time, happiness is always in the present, a timeless state. I do not know if you have noticed that, when you have ecstasy, a creative joy, a series of bright clouds surrounded by dark clouds, in that moment there is no time: there is only the immediate present. But the mind, coming in after the experiencing in the present, remembers and wishes to continue it, gathering more and more of itself, thereby creating time. So, time is created by 'the more', time is acquisition. And, time is also detachment, which is still an acquisition of the mind; therefore, merely disciplining the mind in time, conditioning thought within the framework of time, which is memory, surely does not reveal that which is timeless.

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