Return to time (idea)

"At the time that I climb the mountain and cross the river I am there as that time. Time is not separate from me and if I am present then so too is time. Time does not wax and wane and so the time of climbing the mountain is the right now of being-time. If time does come and go you are the being of time. This is being-time. The time of climbing the mountains and crossing rivers swallows the time of resting in a vermilion palace. Presencing chews up that time and spits out this time."

-Zen Master Dogen, Uji: Being-Time, trans. by Yasuda Joshu Dainen and Anzan Hoshin. Used by permission.

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