No time
For those who train in Zen, or within the deep mountain, in the universe, in the great, huge, expansive world, there is no calendar.
The year 1989 or 1990 - these are dates which humans have made up. For the universe it is irrelevant whether we call this 1989 or 1990. There is no such marking there. If spring comes, it is totally spring. If summer comes, then it is just summer. When autumn comes, autumn is here. When winter comes, it is time for winter. At each tme, the world, as it is, is the truth. We see this clearly and directly. This is the world of Zen. There is no such thing as a measure of time.
- Shodo Harada Roshi in Morning Dewdrops of the Mind
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