Deep Time ♾️
Swimming in the liminal space that connects past and future
Deep Time ♾️
The Seventh Generation Principle is an Indigenuous concept. It means that the current generation should live and work for the benefit as well for the seventh generation to come in the future. It is based on an ancient Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) philosophy that the decisions we make today should result in a sustainable world seven generations into the future. https://theseventhgeneration.org/blog-the-seventh-generation-principle/
The first recorded concepts of the Seventh Generation Principle date back to the writing of The Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy, although the actual date is undetermined, the range of conjectures place its writing anywhere from 1142 to 1500 AD. The Great Law of Haudenosaunee Confederacy formed the political, ceremonial, and social fabric of the Five Nation Confederacy (later Six). (https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/seventh-generation-principle)
Another interpretation that stresses stewardship owed to generations past and future sometimes arises in popular culture and discourse. Rather than pointing to seven generations counted from one's own and looking toward the future, there is an awareness of a legacy to honor or a debt to bear in mind to those three generations before one's own, as well as an awareness of one's own legacy bequeathed to the three generations to follow one's own. By reckoning 25 years per generation, the span of lifetimes stretches 75 years before one's birth and 75 years beyond one's death.
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You Are Now
When we are not caught in the notions of birth and death, being and non-being, coming and going, we are able to ride the waves of life in peace, without fear.
Time, like the breath, is neither wasted nor spent. It simply is. The idea that we can waste time is rooted in the notion that time is something we own, something to be measured, traded, or lost.
But in truth, time is not ours to keep or give away. It is a river that flows, a stream that carries us, moment by moment, through life.
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But in truth, time is not ours to keep or give away. It is a river that flows, a stream that carries us, moment by moment, through life.
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Tijn Tjoelker on Substack
Do you believe in my smallness? I believe in yours. In our collective smallness I see oceans. I see water that we can use to make this seed grow. To call in the future that’s long been growing by movements that have existed before you and I were here.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a snake eating its own tail that symbolises an everlasting cycle.
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.