Timeless Openhearted Engagement with What Is

     “What is the Zen life itself? We can put it in a formula: 

Infinite gratitude towards all things past;
infinite service to all things present; 
infinite responsibility to all things future.”                  Huston Smith

http://billmoyers.com/content/a-personal-philosophy-the-wisdom-of-faith-with-huston-smith/

Steve McCurry   http://stevemccurry.com/

Concept of Time - only Smile & Wonder

     As a kid, (in the late 1950's) I experienced "endless summers" - as if summer would never end - I was suspended in timelessness. Suddenly, in my 60's, time flashes by silently.
     Starting sitting meditation, at times we agonizingly wait for the bell to end the sitting, sometimes with sweat & tears pouring from us. Later, at times, an hour feels like less than a minute, and a few days of meditation are the gentlest blink of an eye. 
     Linear time? - a subjective fantasy - not to be reified - only smile & wonder

     How would I do THIS - were this one act to last forever - stretching into infinity? What attitude, what posture, what love, how much would I devote to THIS one split second in TIME - if this millisecond lasted for ALL ETERNITY?

     "good poets remind us that heaven abides in that which surrounds us." Christopher Martin