No Time and No Space

Dogen said, “There is no time and no space.” What he meant was no time or space as you think. Actual time is continuous and discontinuous. And it is not even a time. It is the actual growth in a flower, the actual sun rising in the east and setting in the west. This is time, actually. So, in this sense, he says there is no time and no space. What actually exists is our movement which moves in one whole existence. We are all moving, and there is some uniformity in our moving. That is actual time and space.

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—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the image. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 65-07-26-D as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. These posts are also on Bluesky, Facebook and Instagram. We are continually working on improving the quality of transcriptions of Suzuki's lectures. After a new "verbatim transcript" is made, we create a minimally edited version which is more readable. See the most recently completed transcripts at shunryusuzuki.com/n.