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god correspond to the four seasons. Including the “third eye”, his total of 12 eyes may be apportioned
to the 12 months of the year. Counting three joints per finger, in Kalachakra’s 24 arms there are 360
bones, which correspond to the 360 days of the year in the Tibetan calendar.
Kalachakra and Vishvamata
Time manifests itself as motion, eternity as standstill. These two elements are also addressed in the
Kalachakra Tantra. Neither cyclical nor chronological time have any influence upon the state of
motionlessness during the Hieros Gamos. The river of time now runs dry, and the fruit of eternity can
be enjoyed. Such an experience frees the divine couple from both past and future, which prove to be
illusory, and gives them the timeless present.
What is the situation with the paired opposites of space and time? In European philosophy and
theoretical physics, this relationship has given rise to countless discussions. Speculation about the
space-time phenomenon are, however, far less popular in Tantrism. The texts prefer the term shunyata
(emptiness) when speaking of “space”, and point out the secret properties of “emptiness”, especially
its paradoxical power to bring forth all things. Space is emptiness, “but space, as understood in
Buddhist meditation, is not passive (in the western sense). ... Space is the absolutely indispensable
vibrant matrix for everything that is” (Gross, 1993, p. 203).
We can see shunyata (emptiness) as the most central term of the entire Buddhist philosophy. It is the
second ventricle of Mahayana Buddhism. (The first is karuna, compassion for all living beings.)
“Absolute emptiness” dissolves into nothingness all the phenomena of being up to and including the
sphere of the Highest Self. We are unable to talk about emptiness, since the reality of shunyata is