Extracted from the website of Buddhist Vajrayana Charity Funds Association and translated (時空時差) into English:
Time & Space
Time Difference
Rinpoche gave this discourse on 28th July 1996
Uploaded to website on 27th January 2015 (after about 19 years)
| Introduction | ||
| All those Buddhist disciples, who are considerably experienced and knowledgeable, should be aware of the so called Four Big Continents! If I follow the Buddhist Sutra to formally explain it once again (Note: it would definitely be no error and it would be absolutely correct to provide a formal explanation according to the Buddhist Sutra), all of you may feel a little bored as you might have heard it from this point of view too many times. Hence, I will try to explain this from a new angle, using simplified knowledge of astronomy and the earth’s time difference between the East and the West in order to enable all of you to think and analyse in depth, and to explore and understand… | ||
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| Contents | ||
| Human Life – There is premature death, death from old age, death from sickness, death from disaster and accident, death by suicide, death by murder…… | ||
| Heaven Life - Life comes to an end naturally and peacefully (that is, death only happens when the full enjoyment of life in heaven is completed). | ||
| Note: There are emperors, whose life have been exhausted in heaven, are saved by Buddha Sakyamuni and blessed by Zunsheng Buddha Mother (Ushnishavijaya), hence, extending their life in heaven. | ||
| (Reference:【Buddhosnisah Dharani Sutra】) | ||
| According to Buddhist scriptures: | ||
| 1. | The Heaven of the Four Heavenly Kings | |
| 500 years of Heaven life = 9 million years of Human life (because one day in heaven = 50 years on earth; 500x365x50 =9125000 years) |
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| 2. | The Trayastrimsa Heaven | |
| 1000 years of Heaven life = ? Calculate this yourself (because one day in heaven = 100 years on earth) |
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| 3. | The Tusita Heaven | |
| 4000 years of Heaven life = ? Calculate this yourself (because one day in heaven = 400 years on earth) |
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| Epilogue | ||
| The inter-relationship of time and space in the universe, the spatial overlap, and the varied time difference are all very intricate, profound and unpredictable. Human beings in the Saha World (earth) are extremely tiny. However, fateful coincidence can still traverse through time and space in between the vast and boundless universe. Such profoundness beyond prediction! Unexplainable and inconceivable!! | ||
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| Reference materials: | ||
| Below will be translated >> | ||
| Buddhist Vajrayana Charity Funds Association http://www.vajrayanacf.org.hk | ||
| > 智慧寶庫 | ||
| >> 佛學淺談 | ||
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| • | 小劫、中劫、大劫、三大阿僧祇劫 | |
| • | 小千、中千、大千世界 | |
| • | 須彌山 | |
| • | 緣亦不可思議 | |
| • | 禪的不可思議 | |
| • | 緣與命 | |
| Association Bouddhiste Vajrayana en France http://www.vajrayana.asso.fr | ||
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