Time

Don't think that time just flies away. Flying away isn't the only thing time can do. If it just flew away, you might be separate from time. Those who don't get what time is all about don't get it because they only think of time as having passed. To cut right to the chase: all the things in the whole universe are linked up in a series, and yet they're also individual moments of your own real time and my own real time.

---Brad Warner paraphrasing Master Dogen's Uji---

It's not that hard. What Dogen is really trying to say is that time and existence are inseparable. Heidegger said it too, in his book Being and Time. We tend to think that they're not the same thing, though. Because of this mistaken understanding we suffer over a lot of things that aren't really worth suffering over.

---Brad Warner's commentary on Master Dogen's Uji---