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 ->