One of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan Dzogchen tradition. He is a meditation teacher and author.
Last night I was looking through one of my favorite old books, Leo Tolstoy’s last major work, called “A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul”. Count Tolstoy, the great novelist and utopian thinker and community builder, spent fifteen years compiling it, beginning in the early years of the first decade of the twentieth century.
For January 1, to begin his tome, we find Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.” The book is filled with what Count Tolstoy intended to be “collected wisdom of the centuries in one book: a wise thought for every day of the year, from the greatest philosophers of all times and all people, about the Good Way of Life”.
Interestingly enough, the entire last page — the seven entries for December 31 — are about time — time, eternity, and the present moment. My favorite, culled from the Jewish wisdom scripture known as The Talmud, says: “‘Time passes by!’ we say. Time does not exist; only we move.”
Life is like a river.
Or maybe it’s not...
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