{"id":2729,"date":"2012-11-11T10:06:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T18:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2013-07-30T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T17:58:45","slug":"aryadeva-refuting-truly-existent-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"Aryadeva: Refuting Truly Existent Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was really interested that Jack suddenly told us those two stories about Aryadeva in Class 3 today. They spoke very strongly to me in communicating how this exploration of time has such deep bearing on how we live our lives, who we are, and who we become.<\/p>\n<p>Some while ago a friend emailed Chapter 11 of Treatise of the Four Hundred Stanzas: Catuhsataka Sastra Karika by Aryadeva. It is entitled &#8216;Refuting Truly Existent Time&#8217;. Here is the link to the whole thing: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">http:\/\/www.fodian.net\/world\/zgsbl_e.html<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t make easy reading, but I suspect is highly relevant to our enquiry. The first stanza of the chapter (251) reads:<\/p>\n<p>The present pot and the past one\/ Do not exist in the future pot.\/Since both would be future\/The future would not exist.<\/p>\n<p>Caroline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really interested that Jack suddenly told us those two stories about Aryadeva in Class 3 today. They spoke very strongly to me in communicating how this exploration of time has such deep bearing on how we live our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-03_fall-2012-tsk-online-course","category-class-discussions-fall-2012-tsk-online-course"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}