Sangha of Auspicious Companions

August 6, 2012

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A Brief History of Timekeeping

“For millennia, humans have sought to make sense of time, to visualize it, to ride its arrow, to hack it, to understand biological connection to it. ‘Time is the very foundation of conscious experience,’ writes Dan Falk in ‘In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time.’ And yet that awareness has a long history of friction — to mark and measure the passage of time has proven remarkably challenging. For instance, Falk traces the evolution of the calendar, our dominant system for collectively experiencing time.” { read more }

Be The Change

A short passage on time-shifting, which “recognizes that every single moment has a particular rhythm to it, and that we have the capacity to expand or contract an individual moment as appropriate.” { more }

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DEVOTE YOURSELF

Devote yourself to your spiritual friend, obeying his words with the sense of being like a servant. Devote yourself to your spiritual friend with the sense of being like a garment that gently covers the skin. Devote yourself to your spiritual mentor with a sense of being like a sweeper who has abandoned pride. Devote yourself to your spiritual mentor with a sense of being like a bull with his horns cut off and who has abandoned conceit.