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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Buddhist Emptiness Explained
In the end, even this concealment of ultimate truth, even this confusion of the eternal with the temporary, the unlimited with the limited, wisdom with ignorance, the self with the world… Perhaps even this is nothing other than the pure, direct experience of ultimate truth.