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Show psycho-motor drive, the time Call it what you will, but happen to be on the brink of Mick Jagger once poignantly THE ZEPHYR/DEC-JAN is now. What is, is. now turns out to be the perfect moment, especially if you a tsunami-sized orgasm. And if youTe not, get busy! For, as crooned: “Time waits for no one.” And where orgasms are 2008 concerned, Sir Mick should know. One squirrelly thing about time is that it won’t stand still. Or, as a certain genius put it: The only thing that never ends is the present. Time is motion, motion is change. And the dance of time, motion, and change is the three legs of the Universe (the fourth leg, of course, being the media). Some folks joke that time was invented so everything wouldn't happen all at once. Which is another way of saying that time is what makes life possible, in the broadest sense of the word. Anyone with a keen sense of the obvious can see that impermanence is the operative function of what we call reality. But, by the same token, if all is flux, then the idea of a perfect moment becomes just that — an idea. Let's not leave Mr. Einstein out of this rambling blog. Anybody who could come up with E=MC2 and get away with it, deserves our admiration. So here’s his spin on time: “People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” It’s funny how being told that your entire matrix of space/time is a mere illusion settles the dust inside one’s noggin. Makes you want to jump up and shout OM, doesn’t it? But don’t blame me, I’m just reporting the news here. In the long run (long being another illusion, juxtaposed against short, which is relative to one’s speed, trajectory, and mental mojo), time is a balancing of one’s subjective reality — versus the collective is-ness of what we foolishly refer to as the Universe. I say foolishly because it’s a bit presumptuous of a gnat to holler that his dog is the sum total of existence. Where’s Jean Paul Sartre when you need him? Alabaster Sculptures “ Navajo Rugs Hopi & Navajo Kachinas Pueblo Pottery Hopi, Navajo, Zuni Let’s review — Primates that we are, our species has a natural tendency to measure our lives against a backdrop of conditioned happenings, all of which are beyond our control. But, being con- Jewelry Navajo, Ute, Paiute Hot damn, it’s all starting to become clear: The perfect moment is an arbitrary phantom of nit-picking reductionism, argued over by folks with nothing better to do than dissect what every child knows is the eternal present. trol freaks, we devise increasingly complex technologies in hopes of dividing reality into (seemingly) manageable chunks of space/time. As this is a natural, but fruitless endeavor, we end up creating more friction than we're able to happily accommodate, and thus find ourselves suffering as a consequence of our own actions. Shrewd New Age hipsters will smell the word karma about now. SG Sound zany? Of course it does. So, in order to project a healthy dose of Bodhisattva vibes, I’ve devised a simple formula to illustrate the concept: Ready? . R-T=O\1 @Cbwe & wtb? Translation: Reality minus time equals nothing/one at the speed of light; but who cares, and where's the beer? Look at it this way — you've some to the end of this bullshit essay. And that, my friends, is a perfect moment! Salut! & Papago Baskets Southern Utah's 1008. MA Finest & fion (Wee eee tre eee es) DOOM OVERFLOW Poaching and deforestation in the tropics are imperiling dozens of humans' primate:relations, with nearly a third of the 394 known species _ of apes, monkeys, lemurs and other groups listed as threatened with ~ extinction in a new report from the World Conservation Union. NY Times 10-27-07 Footnote 1 ~ EMAIL YOUR FEEDBACK TO THE ZEPHYR Send your comments to The Zephyr “The Moon in a Dewdrop; writings of Zen Master Dogen.” Translation by Dan Welch and Kazuaki Tanahashi cezephyr@frontiernet.nct or write to us P.O. Box 327, Moab, UT 84532 Additional note for spontaneous neuron stimulation: “The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power, the shapes of things, their co- lours, lights, and shades; these I saw. Look ye also while life lasts.” Old English gravestone. ee (CE 435.260.8011 (A) 435.239.2339 kelly@moabproperties.com es REALTY 150 EAST CENTER ST. MOAB, UT 84532 or Maye (7, 435.259.5693 FAX: 259.5930 www.moabproperties.com A PERFECT MOMENT? Well...to be honest, our MOST perfect moment -. . fs lying on the beach, along the Colorado River, in the middie of summer. But right after that comes selling homes for a fair and honest price. =~ ( e. iF , i, ANTHONY MASON (QC 435.260.2374 anthony@moabproperties.com |
