Causality: Motion and Stillness
Posted on May 15, 2014
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Everything is in motion or changing or interacting or transforming into something else. The rate of changes, although might be slow or fast, but the information or evidences of such changes as recorded in the fabric of the nature itself, where available, is always happening at a Max speed, like a speed of light or if not, at superluminary speed. Motion, however, also implies existence of stillness. Unless it was still, then how come everything is now changing. And it is changing from what? The answer is stillness. Motion and Stillness are the primordial eternal duo.
Now if you consider the entire universe, is it changing? Change means an outside reference against which you compare and contrast the change. How do you measure changes if you do not have anything else outside you. Then how do you know that anything is changing, ever? From the perspective of the entire universe, there is not even a concept of change. Everything is the same and still, forever. Yet, internally, the smaller parts are changing, incessantly, in reference to one another. In this way, the universe is simultaneously still and ever-changing, just with the change of perspective. Things those which are currently changing has an imprinted information/memory of both original and current stillness in the background, even though they cannot perceive that stillness themselves. A good analogy will be a photon and a human. A photon is already moving at the speed of light, hence from its own perspective, no time passes by and hence nothing is happening. Everything is just still. But the human sees that the photon is moving very fast, at the speed of light. For a human, nothing is resting, everything is changing. If a photon wants to perceive changes and motion, it has to slow down. It's a paradox! In order to see the changes, ie, changing yourself more, you have to do less changing ie. slow down! For a photon, if you want to experience time, motion and changes, you have to slow down. In fact, the photon will experience the greatest time, changes and motion if he completely stop. Likewise, we are perceiving the highest degree of changes because we are relatively still compared to photons. For the "time perceiving" purpose, still objects like us are at the highest speed at perceiving and the photons are at the lowest speed. If photon ever wants to do that, then it will face the problems, as we are facing, like causality, and time. The morale of the story is that the universe is simultaneously still and in constant motion, depending on context, both of which are equally valid.
This co-mingling of stillness and incessant changes gives rise to "something". This "something" is just "one thing" but unfortunately named and used as "different things". Because this is just "one thing" but people have treated it as completely different things, people cannot reconcile the difference among them. The difference among them are purely your misunderstanding or ignorance, it will not be reconcilable unless you can see that it is just the same "one thing". The relation of incessant motion against the bigger, more primitive absolute stillness is that "one thing". It has been known as Time, Causality, Memory, Logos, Mind, Physical Laws of the Universe, Karma, Universal Consciousness, Thermodynamics, etc.. The sheeple might call it with different names but the Sages of all ages always knew that, "It's just One".