We return to from p 118 (Life, Death, and "Time") to the end of the chapter on p. 126.
But Page 118 is just Page 118 with its own before and after (and likewise for every sentence, word, letter or part of a letter of Page 118), and likewise for Page 126 and all other pages.
Do not think that Page 118 turns into Page 119.
Time is like a book ... the start of the book flows into the end of the book, but the end of the book flows into the start of the book ... yet we can only read the place where we are now reading in the book.
Master Dogen presents not just one vision of time ... but many times, flowing in all directions, each containing each other (page 118 contains page 126, and page 126 fully expresses page 118) and the timeless (the universe is just a book that is all before and after and now and somehow beyond all measure, as the past seems written but the future is unwritten and made real by the Karma of the past and our actions now).
All this is not just philosophy, but various ways to think (and non-think) about the time(s) of your life.
The poems by Master Uchiyama on the last pages are stunning, if ya ask me.
Gassho, J
STLah
