Time, Non-Zen Koan (or Your Cornerstone)

1st Journal 2010-05-10 TRANSCRIPT: On Scribd - http://www.scribd.com/DeepPeace NOTE: I misspoke; when I meant Douglas Harding I said 'Daniel,' which is wrong. Apologies. Transcript is corrected. ;) Intro: I notice, today, that I’ve made another improvement in the need for or use of pain drugs. This one is subtle, but it counts. For years, now, when I would awake, it would be to pain and a pain pill, then to lay back down for another bit of sleep, ‘til it passed. Then I could arise and not suffer so, not focus on that. Well, these days it appears that I’m able to get up and go pretty often, without that extra bit of nap for the pain. That’s a plus. Oh, it’s not so comfortable, quite, as the other way is, but it’s tolerable, and I’m grateful for that. Any improvement’s a plus. It’s so funny how time is, and how time is not. At one and the same time these are true. Poor mind cannot figure this non-Zen koan out, yet that’s good. That’s what a koan is for, after all: baffle mind, stop it still in its tracks. Yes, that’s good, so I leave it, there, chasing its tail, and go on. So should you. Check it out. Play with mind. Come out of that thing, one day leave it behind. Trust me, it fends for itself. You can do as you like. Why stay stuck there, be limited like that? Carry on. These bodies we wear are important. So’s the mind. They’re just not at all important in the ways we thought they were. Heck, they aren’t even WHAT we thought they were, so we were surely off on the wrong track, trying to figure out their best uses, wouldn’t you say? Do consider. If the foundation of a building is wrong, what’s with that? Is the rest of the building worth diddly squat? Will it last? Even the Master taught this, in the parable of the sower and the seeds, falling on this and on that [ground], the results. Well, let’s look to your foundation, and to mine. What’s in there? What’s at the bottom of the heap, the rest stands on, in fact? What’s under all that? Have you figured it out? ...