
Chapter Nineteen: Analysis of Time
If the present and the future Depend on the past, The present and the future Exist in the past. [19.1] If the present and the future Do not exist in the past, How can the present and future Be dependent on it? [19.2] If the two do not depend on the past, Then they are not established. The present and future Therefore, do not exist. [19.3] By these very same steps, the other two, The supreme, the middling, and the inferior, and so forth; As well as singularity and so on. Can also be understood. [19.4] A time that does not endure is not apprehended, Since a time apprehended as enduring Does not exist, how can one speak Of a time that is not apprehended? [19.5] If time is based on entities, And there are none, how could there be time? When there are no entities at all, How could there be any time? [19.6] <- Prev Next -> |
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