Time Urges

TODAY'S QUOTE:
"I urge you not to throw away time, for it's swift as an arrow, fast as a stream. Distraction is entirely due to lack of concentration; stupidity and blindness are caused by lack of true knowledge.".... Yung-Ming, "Five Houses of Zen"

Time is an enemy to us all if we constantly calculate it in one form or another. It waits for no man, but passes in a steady flow even if we stand frozen in some portion of it. A day is only so long... a lifetime limited... everything is replaced or renewed somehow and if we do not go with the flow it erases us without a backward glance.

Measurements in life are confining in the extreme. It is not like a recipe where you add so much of this and that and then cook it till it is done to perfection. Life is imperfect in the most perfect way. Uneven slices... jagged pieces... there just is NOT a follow the dots, cut between the lines pattern to this living experience. The only thing you own in life is the moment you are in at any given time. Own enough of them and your life is full. Waste too many and its not.

Do not dwell on time past or things yet to come and ignore the here and now. Give all you have to each moment and it will return the favor. And as always.... think about it.... let it ride.... then you decide!!!!