{"id":2471,"date":"2025-05-09T09:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T09:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2471"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T15:05:26","slug":"glossary-tempiternity-the-tempeternal-character-of-reality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/?page_id=2471","title":{"rendered":"GLOSSARY – Tempiternity, the tempeternal character of reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\u201cReality is not fulfilled in temporality<\/em>. It is not temporal now, and then eternal later, but rather tempiternal, all in one” (Culto y secularizaci\u00f3n)<\/em>.<\/p>

The experience of\u00a0tempiternity<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0to live the present as an intense experience of the now without reference to the past that has been or to the future that will be.<\/em>\u00a0It is that present in which an action is truly realized as such, that is, as authentic and therefore \u201cunique\u201d.<\/p>

Tempiternity<\/em> means that being and time are interrelated in such a way that nothing is untouched by time, not even eternity. At the same time, the temporal aspect of all reality is \u201conly a partial aspect of the tempiternal<\/em>\u00a0nature of things\u201d.<\/p>

In speaking of time and eternity Panikkar uses three concepts: temporicity, temporality <\/em>and tempiternity<\/em>. While temporality<\/em> comprises present, past and future, tempiternity<\/em> represents \u201cthe crystallization of this very moment without ulterior distensions\u201d. It is neither eternity nor temporality. \u201cReality is not fulfilled in temporality: it is not temporal now and eternal later, but rather tempiternal\u201d\u00a0(Culto y secularizaci\u00f3n)<\/em>. The future as such does not exist; genuine hope, which is incorrectly termed \u201cof the future\u201d, must strive to discover in each moment that fullness that we seek: it is possible to find the future in the present. \u201cTime is the other face of what has come to be called eternity, so time and eternity form what could be called tempiternity.<\/em>\u00a0Eternity does not come\u00a0after\u00a0<\/em>time \u2013 nor does it exist\u00a0before<\/em>. Man\u2019s life on earth is not simply\u00a0a <\/em>pilgrimage toward God, reincarnation, or nothingness,\u00a0but rather constitutes a\u00a0rhythm<\/em>\u00a0in which every moment is inhabited by its other eternal face\u201d\u00a0(The Cosmotheandric Experience)<\/em>. And \u201cIf you wish to live your life in fullness, you must live it today without waiting for tomorrow\u201d, Panikkar writes after a long and perilous pilgrimage. \u201cWe must be willing to abandon history and free ourselves of time\u201d. It is about coming to the realization that \u201ceach step is the fulfilment of the journey, of the y\u00e2tr\u00e2\u201d (Pellegrinaggio al Kail\u00e2sa,<\/em>\u00a0Sotto il Monte 2006).<\/p>

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TEMPITERNITY, THE TEMPETERNAL CHARACTER OF REALITY \u201cReality is not fulfilled in temporality. It is not temporal now, and then eternal later, but rather tempiternal, all in one” (Culto y secularizaci\u00f3n). The experience of\u00a0tempiternity\u00a0is\u00a0to live the present as an intense experience of the now without reference to the past that has been or to the future […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5314,"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471\/revisions\/5314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raimon-panikkar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}