The Three Times

Meditation on the Interbeing of All Times

The Five Rivers of Being are unbroken threads that are woven together from all times. You and all things are a beautiful gathering of those threads, expressed in the present moment, since the first cell of your forming, with each non-you cell of your growing, to the dispersing lines of your unweaving.

• Breathing in, I am aware of what is past;
  Breathing out, I am not limited by the past.
• Breathing in, I am aware of what is present;
  Breathing out, I not limited by the present.
• Breathing in, I am aware of what is future;
  Breathing out, I am not limited by the future.
• I am aware of the existence of past in present.
  I am aware of the existence of present in future.
  All times coexist with one another.

A wave does not change the nature of water; instead, it is an expression of water. The nature of time is not water in motion; instead, it is the existence of waves upon that water. Events of the world are rain upon the surface of a lake; the lake is unchanged, while the ripples of each drop pass in and through one another.