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**duminyricky** · 03-11-2011, 02:47 PM

Beginningless time also means this very moment, and more precisely, this very moment as being inseparable from the past or future, which do not exist, and this very moment actually having no duration whatsoever, so it is 'beginningless".

Thanks for the input fojiao2, but I wasn't meaning the present moment. This following quote was the context I had been familiar with, and I was just curious to know if the same terminology occured in Theravada too :

Buddha of great compassion, hold me fast in your compassion. From time without beginning, beings have wandered in samsara, Undergoing unendurable suffering. They have no other protector than you. Please bless them that they may achieve the omniscient state of buddhahood.

With the power of evil karma gathered from beginningless time, Sentient beings, through the force of anger, are born as hell beings and experience the suffering of heat and cold. May they all be born in your presence, perfect deity." (from a Tibetan Buddhist prayer to Chenrezi the Bodhisattva of Compassion)

http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/...padme-hung.htm

I would have liked to have seen some excerpts from Pali Canon suttas showing something similar, if anyone had any direct references.

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duminyricky Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 464 Senior Member	Beginningless time also means this very moment, and more precisely, this very moment as being inseparable from the past or future, which do not exist, and this very moment actually having no duration whatsoever, so it is 'beginningless". Thanks for the input fojiao2, but I wasn't meaning the present moment. This following quote was the context I had been familiar with, and I was just curious to know if the same terminology occured in Theravada too : Buddha of great compassion, hold me fast in your compassion. From time without beginning, beings have wandered in samsara, Undergoing unendurable suffering. They have no other protector than you. Please bless them that they may achieve the omniscient state of buddhahood. With the power of evil karma gathered from beginningless time, Sentient beings, through the force of anger, are born as hell beings and experience the suffering of heat and cold. May they all be born in your presence, perfect deity." (from a Tibetan Buddhist prayer to Chenrezi the Bodhisattva of Compassion) http://www.dharma-haven.org/tibetan/...padme-hung.htm I would have liked to have seen some excerpts from Pali Canon suttas showing something similar, if anyone had any direct references.
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