Time and Timelessness

Opening the heart to the new day, with the pale, dim light of night-time, the moon and the stars slowly giving way to the rising sun, and color and form coming back into our perceptions, we bring attention to these cycles of day and night. A new day being born like a new breath; an inhalation being born. The day arises, a feeling arises, a thought swells up into being, does its thing and then fades away, whether it is a breath, a day, or a lifetime. But that which knows birth and death is not tied to birth and death. It’s said the sun rises, but from the sun’s point of view it doesn’t rise. It is just doing its thing. It is because of the spinning of the earth that we speak of sunrise, but from the sun’s point of view, it is not going anywhere. Similarly, if we shift our perspective to being the knowing, we are no longer attached to all the births and deaths, the successes and failures, and the springs and autumns. When you let go of that habit of grasping and identification, the heart abides in the position of the sun—central, bright, radiant, and unwavering. …