Laws of Dharma circulate and dissolve from a central point of emptiness. A point at which there is only Present Time and no karma.
From emptiness Present Time emerges, becomes relative to experience, conditioned by relationships, the relationships between a tremendous number of simple and complex organs, organisms, entities—energies, forces that attract, repel, radiate, magnify and are inert, depending on the degree of awakening of those engaged.
In Present Time we can create an omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscent movie where we are the director and the actor. To remain in Present Time requires awareness and responsibility to all the dimensions and levels of life-relationships: physical, mental, esoteric and divine energy exchanges.
Communication is a dharma-moment in time. Moving from emptiness without consciousness it can generate karma at material levels of energy, such as psychological, emotional or physical. It detracts from Present Time. It limits and diminishes Creation of Dharma Presence.
WHAT IS DHARMA?
The word dharma originated several 1000 years before the Buddha according to the following four foundations:
Dharma as All of Nature.
Dharma as the Universal Laws of Nature (ULN).
Dharma as the duties that are required to follow the ULN.
Dharma as the effects or fruits of what arise from following the duties or not following the duties according to the ULN.
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Before Buddha there were several ancient explantions for the word dharma or dhamma, little “d”. Here are a few:
In the Hindu religion dharma, or spelled dhamma, meant cosmos.
To the Hindu gurus of India dharma is the path of righteousness and living one’s life according to the codes of ethical conduct as described by the Vedas and Upanishads.
Various great Hindu gurus have defined the root of the word dharma as compassion. It was later that the principle of compassion was developed by the Buddha in the immortal book of the great wisdom, the Dhammapada.
Dharma means “that which holds” the people of this world and the whole creation.
In Buddhism Dharma means “protection”. When we practice Dharma we are guided from ignorance and suffering.
When Buddha became enlightened Dharma became the Teachings of Buddha, of which there are known to be around 80,000.
The four foundations of dharma combined with the Buddha-Dharma-the Teachings of Buddha, are the practice or path to the Great Liberation, toward Eternal Awakening, to become Enlightened, to become a Buddha.
Combining the four foundations of dharma with the Teachings of Buddha, the word Dharma is from now on big “D”.
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From a point of emptiness, Buddha-Dharma thrives in Present Time, encompassing all energies into One Absolute harmonious, evolving project of universal space. It isn’t the past and it isn’t the future it is All of Time… A tree has been planted from a seed many years ago. The history of the tree’s roots lie deep in the earth. Its history is hidden in its past, although its perpetual (future) statement-of-perfect-wholeness is expressed through space in Present Time. (Present Time is ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny).
DIFFERENT TIME EXPERIENCES IN RELATIONSHIP
A Present Time experience with one entity can be totally different with another entity. For example when I am communicating with certain ants and at another time communicating with an evolved being such as my sister. The experience is of course totally different. But how is it different?
First of all a very different Dharma comes up. Communicating with the ants its “move away” while trying to be respectful of the rock space we share. With my sister its important to take great care in using the right type of language as well as being respectful and express myself with a clear head, so we come together with love, joy in connecting together—some emotional stimulation is inevitable and hopefully harmonious satisfaction, as well as building feelings that fulfill our role as sisters, friends, confidants and covenantees of family trends and karmic secrets.
What I find interesting about this rather unbalanced comparison is the dimensions of karma. One very evident difference is it is very unlikely I will see those particular ants ever again. And of course, that probability is not a possibility with my sister, unless one of us dies or we have a falling out.
Therefore, communicating with a higher being the karma is often times more accumulative, as with my sister, with the extent of Presence or Present Time diminished. Without the karma it isn’t.
Being in Present Time with an ant is just as important as being in Present Time with my sister and can be greater with less karma. For example, hurting the ants or killing them may send a message that will reverberate through the total ant colony in the area I go to or all throughout the ant world. The ants may be inbibed with the vibration that Hillary has no compassion. I have created karma with the ants. But how much depends on how deep the relationship is…
I always feel bad when I hurt or kill ants, (also mosquitos, scorpions or centipedes) especially when I lose patience and want to have dominion over the rock I inhabit. With a quick flick of the hand I will sweep a bunch of ants off the rock flying them into the stream. But the bad feeling lasts a lot longer if I hurt my sister. In fact it can be months and has been years. We have karma together.
The karma created and held on to by us higher beings, within the karmic universe, deprives and weakens Dharma Present Time.
Hurting low life (sorry anties) creatures, like ants, certainly creates some karma but its accumulation is in direct proportion to the depth of relationship of the beings involved—of how awakened they are. Hopefully my treatment of the ants distracts little from Present Time—the pain inflicted is of course relative to the ants. For me it lasts for no more than a minute. (more than the sympathy and compassion for the ants is the selfish thought of what will happen to me from the amount of suffering I have inflicted upon those fellas)
What is most important to know is that Dharma relationship is between two evolved beings who have no emotional or physical karmic background that runs the communication network. From a point of emptiness without karma higher beings of connection can enhance, expand and empower Dharma Presence…
From a point of emptiness, with no past or no future in the fire of relationship there is Power in PRESENT TIME And not only this, the Present Time is Dharma Presence in its essence in action.
Communication of Dharma Presence is necessary for all those on the Path of Liberation.
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photo: arrows in samsara - millions stopped, thousands moving and one free … a 13 hour sitting in cave junction, oregon, june 1973, by hillary
