Monkey Mind

Time, Space, Dogen & Parsifal

I have spent much time re-reading Dogen (See here if you are unaware of who Dogen is/was) these last few months and with reading his, at the time, unique - and clear - thoughts of time and space it is difficult not be be reminded of Parsifal and in particular " Zum Raum wird hier die Zeit" (And indeed Heidegger's thoughts on time but that is for another time - as too is Schopenhauer)

I will probably write about this at some stage, but I thought you might find the following quotes from Dogen interesting:


In essence, all things in the entire world are linked with one another as moments. Because all moments are the time being, they are your time being.

Mountains are time. Oceans are time. If they were not time, there would be no mountains or oceans. Do not think that mountains and oceans here and now are not time. If time is annihilated, mountains and oceans are annihilated. As time is not annihilated, mountains and oceans are not annihilated.