I remember a scene from an old Popeye cartoon, back when they made feature length cartoon for the theaters (15-30 minutes). In this scene, Popeye was chasing a mysterious creature that started up some stairs that were simply floating in the sky.
Going up the stairs Popeye noticed that as he went to the next stair the stair he just stepped from had vanished. He was now high in the air and there was no turning back, even the stair he was on was dissolving, his only choice was to move forward.
This is the nature of time, there is only the step you are standing on (which is dissolving) and the next one you will take, everything else is an illusion.
We cannot go back, nor can we stand still, our only choice is to take the next step.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Miles!
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ReplyDeleteCan not avoid thinking of Mumonkan, case 46:
ReplyDeleteMaster Sekiso said,
"You are at the top of the 100 foot high pole. How will you make a step further?"
Another Zen Master of Ancient Times said,
"One who sits on top of the 100 foot pole has not quite attained true enlightenment. Make another step forward from the top of the pole and throw one's own body into the 100,000 universes."