Is it true that we will never run out of time?

Written by: Zhang Wendai, Hualien, 

Translator:  Name    Wong Siew Ching (MY) 黄曉清 

Reviewer: Name       Eugene Tang Kok Weng (SG)鄧國榮

How do you spend your day? How do you view this time span of one day?

Time is fairest because everyone can have it, be it rich or poor. Time is also the most merciless, because it never returns a second time.

When I was a child, I felt that time was very draggy, and I looked forward to growing up quickly. After I have grown up, I feel that time is very short, and I hope that the days will pass slowly. The perception about time is a subjective matter.  For example, while waiting, the time passes slowly. But when you are happy, time just flies us by.

I remember my primary school teacher teaching us about the concept of time, and we learned from a circular clock concerning the hour-hand and the minute-hand, and we learned that it is 12 hours if the hou-hand makes one turn, and two circles make twenty-four hours in a day. It was the first time I heard Master Cheng Yan say that we should grasp "86,400 seconds" in a day. At that time, I felt that the Master was very good at mathematics, and I immediately knew how many seconds there were in a day.

"It's almost noon now, it's past eleven o'clock, so it should be past the mark of 40,000 seconds, and there are more than 40,000 seconds left..." The Master said in the reception room.

"We would like to teport to Master that Da Ai Taiwan colleagues have entered the testing stage, and is now matching with the screen to complete the timer window." said He Jianming, deputy director of Da Ai Taiwan.

At this moment,  many Jing Si aphorisms appear in our minds to remind us of the importance of cherishing time. Such as "time can accumulate everything, don't give up every minute", "life is impermanent, life exists between breaths, if you can't pass the test in one second, life is over, so you must take good care of every minute, every second" .. ....

The "timer"that Master longs for,  starts ticking from 86,400 seconds each day. The left and right sides display the "lapsed" seconds and the "remaining" seconds to remind everyone to seize the moment to do things that benefit the world.

Li Jianxing (from Dai Ai TV Taiwan) who participated in this time project shared that he discovered that the way he looked at time in the past seems to be wrong. In the past, whenever he looked at a round watch, he felt that time always existed and was circulating endlessly, as if it would never run out.

"Is time really running out?"

He said that the Venerable Master broke the concept of time and changed time from a circle to "a line", and time began to have a beginning and an end.

Time is ticking...a second has passed, how many seconds have passed today, how many seconds are left? Time has become a "limited resource", and now he has learned to look at 86,400 seconds.

Thanks to the internet, the presentation of the window screen of the timer can combine the pictures of heaven and earth in outer space and around the world with 86,400 seconds, and present the changes of time and the operation of heaven and earth at the same time.

Master Cheng Yen once said, "When everything in the universe changes, time accomplishes everything. In the process of everything changing, it achieves success, sustenance, destruction, and emptiness." I hope that through the window of this timer, everyone can understand that pulse of time and heaven and earth is changing every second.

"I am grateful to the Venerable Master for allowing us to set up a camera in the abode to record 86,400 seconds of the abode." Li Jianxing said that in the future, he hoped that the momentary images of the abode would also be shared with Tzu Chi families around the world.

Personal life are actually changing all the time. From time to the limited life, it reminds us to seize the moment to do good, because time may run out in an instant...

(Documenting Team 2022.04.07)