What is the relationship between eternity and time?
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"Eternity is not the absence of time, but the depth of the moment where the timeless penetrates the temporal, awakening your innermost core."
According to Osho, time is a horizontal line—A to B to C—where life moves toward death; eternity is vertical, a deepening from A to more A. They meet only in a rare, ripe moment of meditation, when your innermost core awakens. Then you stand at a crossroads, and the timeless penetrates the temporal, transforming ordinary duration into living presence.
Time is like a road you walk, eternity is like going deeper inside, and when you become very quiet within, they meet in the now.
Why this matters practically
- Anchors you in the present rather than past/future.
- Softens fear of death by sensing the timeless.
- Gives meditation a direction: depth, not duration.
- Softens fear of death by sensing the timeless.
- Gives meditation a direction: depth, not duration.
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