No eternity

[Taigu]

I remember as a child how I used to dread these christian stories of Hell for ever, everlasting burning and torture. You ll find these in the great works of J. Bosch and Breughel. Or...it could also have een eternal bliss in the lap of God and surrounded by hysterical saints and devoted angels. An eternity of f...... boredom.
Neither nor.
As always, Dogen and this practice will challenge your belief system and get you in a space-time- being which has nothing to do with the whip or the bag of sweets, and certainly not with: it ain t going to stop Baby, this is always going to be...

Rather than eternity: the timeless, that is to say, the complete realization beyond time and in the now, beyond space and right in the here, free of being attached to this and that, life and death collapsing in each other. And nothing freezes, and nothing lasts, it all moves. Still yet dynamic, actively peaceful. The timeless. Not the continuation of time ad eternam but the great circle in which things arise and vanish. Not an escape, a way out, but a way in, further and deeper where the broad stroke is done.

Please, come in.

Every moment the timeless manifests countless ripples and forms, each of those miroring freely and perflectly the timeless itself.

Agony and boredeom out of the window.

Ease and joy.

You are the flesh and bones and marrow and breath of it all: timeless itself.

Gassho

Taigu

[Daitetsu]

Gassho,

Timo

[Heisoku]

Timeless beauty, thank you Taigu. Gassho.

[Nengyo]

[Mp]

Wonderfully times less.

Gassho
Shingen

[Myosha]

Thank you.


Gassho,
Edward

[Shujin]

Thank you, Taigu.

Driving around town I come across numerous church billboards with messages such as "Timeless hope for hopeless times" or, paraphrased, "In a changing world, God's doesn't." While I don't have an axe to grind with Christianity, I wonder what the merit of a static world would be. I also wonder what makes the present particularly hopeless for someone in this country.

Gassho,
Shujin

[Dosho]

Thank you Taigu.

Gassho,
Dosho

[Heion]

Beautiful perceptions and insight.

Thank you!

Kind regards,
Alex

[Ishin]

Thankyou Taigu
Brought up in a Christian tradition myself, I could never understand the concept of hell from a supposedly all wise loving deity. If I see my own children learning lessons, why would I perpetually punish them. The whole concept is rife with ethical and logical issues, not to mention the lack of belief in hell in Jesus's own culture.

[Myozan Kodo]

Gassho, with thanks.
Myozan

[Myoshin]

IT remembers me Uji I read not so long ago
It's a difficult reading but the little I understood made me feel free of fear at this moment
It's a good post Taigu, the way you expone with simplicity shows your understanding with brain and marrow of practice.
May we be able to understand the profund meaning you give to us
Gassho

Myoshin

[Myoshin]

Maybe if I understand, it is an invitation to live fully, there's nothing more to do in this time, always fresh and always old as itself

Gassho

Myoshin

[alan.r]

Maybe if I understand, it is an invitation to live fully, there's nothing more to do in this time, always fresh and always old as itself

Gassho

Myoshin

I think so Myoshin. It's something even beyond words though, beyond the expressible - go to that, come in, Taigu is saying. And already, I've said too much - Taigu said it: the great circle.

Gassho

[Oheso]

Rather than eternity: the timeless

maybe teaching eternity to those who might not grasp timelessness is a kind of skillful means, getting some individuals at least heading in the right direction or part-way out of the burning house. I think for me, Eternity eventually became a kind of "eternal moment" understanding. still working on getting rid of the eternal and the understanding parts.

what happens to Eternity at the apocalyptic end-of-time, when all accounts are settled?

van-eyck1-600x429.jpg world without end, this ain't gonna stop Baby

thank you, Taigu