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Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate Christmas on January 7th (by Julian, rather than Gregorian calendar). My belated thoughts on the matter – just on time.
1.
Same thought I had twelve times.
- Which one?
Doesn’t matter.
- What does?
What does is the experience of timelessness, i.e. life.
2.
12… 11… 10…
Count your anxious mind down past one, and even past (the Sunyata*) zero.
Celebrate christmas yearlessly, every moment.
- Why christmas with lower case “c”?
No disrespect: I mean in it in a pseudo-buddhist sense of ongoing arising-and-cessation of all that is. Call it Russian Zen or (ego-check) my writing eccentricity.
- Why pseudo-buddhist?
Because I am not a buddhist. Never mind: no time to explain. We’ve got this <em>now </em>to attend to…
3.
So, without any further ado, while we share this writing-reading moment: <em>happy arising-and-cessation to you all by whatever time-keeping orthodoxy you use to track your existence!</em>
5.
Whatever is, is always on time.
Even a belated wish.
So, celebrate the psychophysical divinity of your existence.
And remember to share it,
Not with me, of course.
With yourself!
6.
By the way: what time is life?
(a hat-tip to KLF**)
*Sunyata doctrine (Buddhism) of no-self
**KLF, acid house pioneer band, with an existential anthem “What time is love?”