For a long time, I wondered what the Zen concept of time was. It's like trying to turn your head fast enough to see your own face. You never can, because your face is your face and is not separate from you. Our past is only here now. It is not in some separate moment. There is a Zen saying: "Settle the self on the self." The past becomes settled in the present, the only place it really exists. We are only here right now. In The Experience of Insight, Joseph Goldstein said that the only moment is the present, that we have concepts of the past and future, but they are only concepts in the mind.
Natalie Goldberg
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