"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 Minneapolis
http://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)