The Future: sutra, time travel, cartoon (video)

Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly translation based on Ven. Thanissaro, Anagata-bhayani Sutta, "Discourse on Future Dangers" (AN 5.78)

The future: where you and I will spend the rest of our lives...when cartoons have been rendered useless by the lolcats (Tom Tomorrow/thismodernworld.com)

 
"Meditators, five future dangers are enough, when considered, for one living in a remote setting -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized. What five?

Mr. Peabody & Sherman use the Wabac (Way Back) to travel in time

 
1. "One reminds oneself: At present I am young, dark-haired, endowed with the blessings of youth, in the first stage of life. But a time will come when this body will be beset by old age. When one is overcome by old age and decay, it is not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings [beneficial for rapid success in Buddhist serenity and insight forms of meditation].

"Before this disagreeable, distressing, unwelcome thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that -- endowed with this instruction (Dharma) -- I will live in peace even when old.
 
"This is the first future danger that is enough, when considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.

"Free Birds" - Going back in time to get turkeys off the menu

 
2. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present I am free of illness and discomfort, endowed with healthy digestion: not too cold, not too hot, moderate and agreeable. But a time will come when this body will be beset by illness. When one is overcome by illness, it is not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings.

"Before this disagreeable, distressing, unwelcome thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that -- endowed with this instruction -- I will live in peace even when sick.
 
"This is the second future danger that is enough, when considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.

Original Mr. Peabody Dog and Boy Sherman (1959), "Rapunzel"

 
3. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present food is plentiful, and alms are easy to come by. It is easy to maintain oneself by gleanings and patronage. But a time will come when there is famine: Food will be scarce, alms hard to come by, and it will not be easy to maintain oneself by gleanings and patronage. When there is famine, people will congregate where food is plentiful. There they will live packed and crowded together. When one is living packed and crowded together, it is not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings.

"Before this disagreeable, distressing, unwelcome thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that -- endowed with this instruction -- I will live in peace even when there is famine.
 
"This is the third future danger that is enough, when considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.

Family Guy/original "Back to the Future" blend

4. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present people are living in harmony, on friendly terms, without quarreling, like milk and water, looking at one another with eyes of affection. But a time will come when there is danger due to an invasion by savage outsiders. Taking power, they will surround the countryside. When there is danger, people will congregate where it is safe. There they will live packed and crowded together. When one is living packed and crowded together, it is not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings.

"Before this disagreeable, distressing, unwelcome thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that -- endowed with this instruction -- I will live in peace even when there is danger.
 
"This is the fourth future danger that is enough, when considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.

Traffic? The first "movie" (30 secs) ever filmed in Los Angeles, 1899

  
5. "Furthermore, one reminds oneself: At present the community (Sangha) -- harmonious, on friendly terms, without quarreling -- lives in comfort with a communal recitation [of the guidelines of the path-to-liberation]. But a time will come when the community is split. When the community is split, it is not easy to practice the Buddha's teachings. It is not easy to reside in seclusion in peaceful forest or wilderness dwellings.
 
"Before this disagreeable, displeasing, unwelcome thing happens, let me make an effort for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized, so that -- endowed with this instruction -- I will live in peace even when the community is split.
 
"This is the fifth future danger that is enough, when considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized.
 
"These are the five future dangers that are enough, when considered, for one -- heedful, ardent, and resolute -- to live for attaining the not-yet-attained, reaching the not-yet-reached, realizing the not-yet-realized."

Literal time travel

 

Time travel may already be a functional reality

(C2C/DiscloseTruthTV) "Time travel is possible and already being done" according to attorney Andrew Basiago from the US government's Project Pegasus (DARPA/CIA). Basiago and his father served in the secret program. He blows the whistle on the current state of the cover up and surveillance technology being deployed. This includes chronovision, a natural quantum-access time-visualization technology to see events recapitulated in time through a TV-like box, suggesting that "time" -- along with various alternative timelines -- is constantly occurring rather than dead and gone. Events leave a cyclical residual signal that can be amplified, as was discovered during investigations of Gregorian chant harmonics, as well as incipient signals of future events. These fading signals, like ripples in a pond, can be amplified in the lab -- and this has already been done. Elite physicists, like Fermi of Fermilab fame, were well aware of this discovery and its theoretical, experimental, as well as practical implications. One device, Basiago explains, "generates a hologram of a past or future event...by driving an electromagnetic signal through an octagonal, an eight-sided array of bismuth crystals." Time travelers like Basiago were trained in its use. Basiago last saw these technologies in 1972, when he left the program. However, he is convinced that chronovision has been implemented by the US intelligence community to aid in its widespread spying programs.

• AUDIO: Basiago on Teleportation, Time-Travel, Mars

Who is Andrew D. Basiago? His father was a project principal, and he became a project participant. He a is a lawyer, writer, 21st century visionary, and future presidential candidate (Barry Obama was also involved in Project Pegasus and Mars travel). He is an emerging figure in the Disclosure Movement leading a campaign to lobby the US government to tell the truth and disclose its involvement in various mind bending controversies. Beyond mindboggling time travel, near instant travel to Mars to see the life forms living there, and "quantum access" to past and future events. He has been identified as the first of two major planetary whistleblowers predicted by ALTA, the Web Bot project that analyzes the content of the Web to discern future trends.