Hi everyone, This topic got me thinking about chronocentricity.
Everything that we know seems to be about time and calendars and a beginning and an end. Man created the concept of time and devised measures of time and elaborate systems of recording and predicting cycles of time. Each civilisation seemed to keep its own time and sense of cycle. Whether it is the Jewish, Mayan, Hindu, Islamic, Chinese or the Gregorian calendar, time is still an artefact of the human mind to frame the world from a cultural perspective. It is peculiar to me that religion arises out of the idea that our time on this earth is limited to the human life span that we know it and that our access to the experience that this human body will allow will end. Time and religion are inextricably intertwined. Then I think about being achronostic; where one is not bound by any notion of time. Let not any of the time based mechanisms that man invented hook on to your mind and weigh it down. Let not any man made structure about the notion of age and evolution grow like barnacles around your brain and paralyse you. My physical body may age and be at a certain chronological point. However my mind is eternally youthful, perpetually in the same state the day it saw through the shallow chronocentricity of the world and their attempts to enslave it to time. It as stayed as young as the day it broke free from the shackles of time. Religion likewise is a shackle on the mind. The Metaphysics of Quality as described by Pirsig can help you break that shackle. Religion is what ordinary mortals think they need to support their temporary existence here on Earth. If the ordinary mortal can attain the insight to grasp the MOQ, he or she achieves a permanence, and has no more need of religion; shedding it as if it were your old previous skin. Rgds Khoo Hock Aun MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
