In my search for the eternal, I flee from time, place, and circumstance. I flee this cage of a self, barred in by fear and desire, regret and ambition, and all things mundane. I flee the concrete in search of the absolute, and end up stranded in between.
For such is the mystery of the absolute, that it is always only concrete. Such is the play of eternity, that it speaks only in the moment.
What separates here from everywhere, now from always, is only a way of seeing.
May we rest and see,
Simeon
It is the experiencing of what is without naming it that brings about freedom from what is.
—Jiddu Krishnamurti, Commentaries On Living Series 1
Suggested Reading
The Essential Dogen: Writings of the Great Zen Master
Dōgen’s writings return us to the intimacy of the present moment. What we seek as timeless, he suggests, is not hidden behind the world but shining through its suchness. His thought refuses every easy division between absolute and relative, eternity and time, awakening and ordinary life.
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