Now

[Ryumon]

I can imagine that my “self“ moving from the past to the present to the future is like a reel of movie film. Right now, my self is in one frame, and I can recall previous frames or imagine the frames to come. I’m oscillating at an unknown frequency as my body-mind traverses being-time yet is always anchored in the now, even if I lose sight of it.

“As the time right now is all there ever is, each being-time is without exception entire time.” Dogen, Uji

Gassho,
Ryūmon (Kirk)
Sat Lah

[Jundo]

Hmmm. Yet you are also the whole reel of film (young people may not know what a "reel of film" is! ) like a block universe, and the end of the movie is just the start of the movie at the end, while the end and present scene is just every scene at the start. The end of the reel flows back into the start of the reel and each inch of the reel flows back and forth into every inch. You are all through the movie, every other character, even before your birth scene and after your death scene.

Yet every character in the movie might also be said to be in their own unique film where all the other characters are just supporting their own starring role.

Right now is only where the light shines for a moment.

Gassho, J
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