"Thus shall ye think of this fleeting world: A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream - The Diamond Sutra

 Present time is ungraspable. As soon as it occurs, it immediately falls into the past. As soon as I am here, I am gone. Present time is ungraspable. As soon as it occurs, it immediately falls into the past. As soon as I am here, I am gone. And unless  the first me disappears, the second me cannot appear. So my being here is thanks to my not being here. There is in reality no me anyway; there’s only the flow of time.

Dogen

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