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>A moment of time is a recontextualization of the all the past. A firm grasp of this idea is crucial for avoiding the misconception that the Tiantai notion of inter-pervasion of past, present, and future, and of the “inherent inclusion” of all entities in each, might lead to something like a static picture of the universe foreclosing any genuine creativity. For in Tiantai, each moment of time is the bringing forth of not only a new set of changing events but also a new set of “eternal principles”—omnipresent conditions, rules, requirements, regularities, coherences, laws, universals. Each moment is effectively the creation of a new space-time that determines anew the character of the everything in the universe and of all the past and future.