S.G.: Surfing is such an in-the-present thing.
I'm all for staggering overindulgence in the eating and drinking departments; but the presents thing is a worry.
On the third reading, it might be impossible, on this occasion, for the presented thing to be a stuffed goldfinch, even though there are other occasions on which it would be a possibility.
The senses present things only as they appear from a given perspective at a given moment in time.
"There are three tenses or times: the present of past things, the present of present things, and the present of future things".
It is what video and film by their nature depict--and only depict: the present of things past, the present of things present, and the present of things future.
After all, the permanent thing would be present unchanged both when the putative effects are present and when they are absent, and this failure of the co-presence and co-absence (anvayavyatireka) conditions for determining cause and effect would show, for Dharmakīrti, that the ever-present thing is not the actual cause, but that something else is.
"The whole point is, we are trying to get better in the way we present things".
SB: Ya, and I think it matters, actually, search isn't unlike every other application; the way you present things actually does matter.
