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A Buddhist would be best to answer, but here goes...
A common theme in religion and science is the inability to project time back infinitely into the past.
Christianity holds that "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth...", before which nothing but God existed.
Modern physics can project back to a singularity (the "big bang"), prior to which we can't give any description, because we can't describe the conditions that led to the singularity.
I'm guessing that Buddhism also has hit this problem - what *can* one say about the time before time began? The answer seems to be that it's a fruitless question.
Time has always been, and didn't "begin" anywhen.
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I suspect there isn't one simple answer for all Buddhists however here's my thought. As time is relative (from a physics as well as spiritual perspective), beginningless time refers to the entire relative experience. The life of the current universe may be 50 billion years, then the process will begin again - there are countless rebirths of the universe. Time is relative to the physical condition, when the mind is no longer connected to the physical condition the orbit of the earth around the sun (relative time) is unlikely to have any absolute significance.
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