Zen O'Clock: Time to Be
By Scott Shaw
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Imagine being able to step beyond the controlling hands of clocks, calendars, and schedules to discover the mystical process that will give you an entirely new perspective of time. Inside this book are insightful aphorisms that will help you live more peacefully in the present.
With each page, Scott Shaw, an expert in meditative consciousness, helps you throw away phrases like “wasted time” and “time constraints”—and understand the difference between what time is and what we perceive it to be.
Imagine, right now, time in your hands!
Scott Shaw
Scott Shaw is a regular contributor to all of the major national martial arts magazines and has a Ph.D. in Asian studies. He is the only non-Korean ever to be promoted to the rank of 7th Degree Black Belt in the Korean martial art of Hapkido by the Korea Hapkido Federation. He is the editor of the Tuttle Dictionary of the Martial Arts of Korea, China, and Japan and is the author of Hapkido: The Korean Art of Self Defense, andThe Ki Process: Korean Secrets for Perfect Health.
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Zen O'Clock - Scott Shaw
INTRODUCTION
TIME—all of life is dominated by it.
TIME—every word, in all languages, is governed by it. But, what is it? The thinking mind has been programmed into believing that it is an object; that it does, in fact, exist.
TIME cannot be touched, it cannot be grasped or held onto. It can only be defined in terms of history; by what has happened in the past, even if that past was only a second ago. The majority of the world's people wish that this could be different.
TIME—in its purest form is simply a method to measure the distance between birth and death, for this interval known as life, is the only period where TIME may be consciously calculated.
When you exist, TIME exists. When you do not exist, TIME does not exist.
Modern society has placed a much greater value on TIME than this pure and simplistic description, however. We have chosen to create clocks, calendars, and schedules that we think we must exist within; making us excessively aware of the ever present passing of TIME.
TIME cannot be stopped. At best, it can only be witnessed.
Since it is human consensus that this concept of TIME exists, you must put it into perspective, learn to control it, as opposed to being controlled by it. To this end, take a few moments to read this book, take some more TIME to understand it. And, hopefully you, too, will come to a better comprehension of this process known as TIME and learn to live within it more peacefully.
CHAPTER ONE
Time
1
Where you are right now is where you are.
You may have a million developed desires to be in other places, doing other things, but you are not there, you are here.
Experience this moment to its fullest.
2
QUICK, CATCH IT !
This moment is gone; it can never be relived.
3
When you look forward into TIME, it seems like forever.
When you look back into TIME, it appears life has passed in a flash.
4
Can you see time?
No.
Then you should stop looking for it.
5
You can watch a clock tick.
You can witness a sunrise or a sunset.
But, that is not time. That is simply movement.
Movement is the defining factor of time.
From this on to that.
From that on to this.
6
Stop trying to observe time and you will be free of time.
7
There is no beginning and there is no end to time.
There is only a beginning and an end to your perception of time.
When you are alive you can witness time.
When you are dead you cannot.
Time is an ALIVE concept.
8
The judgment of time