One instant

 

One instant is eternity;
eternity is the now.
When you see through this one instant,
you see through the one who sees.

—Wumen Huikai (1183-1260), translated by Stephen Mitchell from The Enlightened Heart: An Anthology of Sacred Poetry, (Harper and Row, 1989)

Wumen Huikai was a Chinese Chan (Zen in Japanese) master most famous as the compiler of and commentator on the 48-koan collection The Gateless Gate.

Ideas from Thoreau

Ideas from Thoreau. The row THOREaU.
Thoreaus message about time and eternity. We drink from eternity not a stream...
I also thought of the passage from the writer who said that doing meditation is a refuge not a test. Certainly the Thoreau's poem is about drinking in the stream of eternity, a metaphor for meditation and meditation as a refuge.

In my thinking I also wanted to talk about my poem the Guru Gurumph.