Or wouldn't the two thieves be standing in the present? The present is
all there ever is. When you think about the 'past', it exists solely
in your memory (which you experience in the present), and the process
of recollection would be happening in the present. When you think
about the future, you're still doing it in the present. All there ever
is is the eternal seamless present moment, and in that present moment,
things are always changing. Eternity is right now.
On Apr 18, 11:21 am, Irakusa <irak...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I heard it put once:
> The present is standing between two thieves.
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Lee <toge...@gmail.com>
> To: e-zendo <E-Zendo@googlegroups.com>; uze...@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 8:32:55 AM
> Subject: *E-Zendo* Being Time
> "The real present is not exactly what you believe the present to be.
> In everyday life we constantly create some idea of what the human
> world is because we are always thinking of how things were in the past
> or how things will be in the future. When you are thinking about the
> past and future, the contents of the present are just imaginary
> pictures of the past and future, pictures fabricated by your
> consciousness at the pivot of nothingness, so it is not the real
> present. The real present is the full aliveness that exists at the
> pivot of nothingness before your conceptual thinking creates an
> imaginary world through human consciousness . So to understand the
> present as a pivot of nothingness, your concept of the present must be
> negated. It must become no-present; then you can see the real
> present."
> — Dainin Katagiri Roshi Each Moment Is the Universe
> --
> Lee, a Mashiko potter in Minneapolishttp://mashikopots.blogspot.com/
> "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that
> can be counted counts." --(Sign hanging in Einstein's office at
> Princeton)
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