A new way to look at clocks and calendars—and learn to live more peacefully in the present. 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! When it's Zen O'clock you can take the time Imagine being able to step beyond the controlling hands of TIME to discover the mystical process that will give you an entirely new perspective of TIME. Inside this handy little 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". Imagine, right now, TIME in your hands! Scott Shaw is an accomplished martial artist and practicing Buddhist. He is the author of several books, including Zen O'Clock , Samurai Zen , Ki Process and Tao of Self Defense . Zen O'clock Time to Be By Scott Shaw Samuel Weiser, Inc. Copyright © 1999 Scott Shaw All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57863-124-7 Contents IntroductionTimeLifeDeathEmotionsNowDesirePerfectionZazenIndexAbout the author CHAPTER 1 Time 1 Where you are right now is where you are.You may have a million developed desires to be in other places, doing otherthings, 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 is always done in the past tense.You can only judge time in terms of placement—comparing where you were then, towhere you are now. 9 The more you think and worry about time, the more you will be controlled by it,and the faster it will appear to pass.The less you concern yourself with time, the freer you become, and there isalways plenty of time. 10 Can you save TIME?No, there is no savings account for TIME. 11 There has always been a recorded history of TIME, whether it was recorded byhuman hands or written onto the surface of the earth.Before that, did TIME exist?Before your consciousness of TIME, did TIME exist? 12 Have you witnessed how sometimes TIME moves so slowly and other times it passesby so quickly?During some periods of life one lives an enormous amount of experiences in avery short time.these times of intensity, life goes by very fast.At other times, life all seems to be the same; it passes quite slowly.Make the best of each time period, for all life moves in cycles.Live and experience both fully while they are happening.Live the fast time, as consciously as possible.Reflect upon all of these new experiences once TIME has slowed down. 13 If one could travel in TIME, either into the future or into the past, that wouldmean everything is continually happening forever.Does this moment happen continually forever?How can this moment be any place other than where it is, RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW? 14 Take the TIME to just do nothing.It will open up a completely new world of insight for you. CHAPTER 2 Life 15 How many times have you stepped outside and not even noticed what the weatherwas like?How many times have you traveled to some destination and, due to the fact thatyour mind was on another issue affecting your life, you did not even notice howyou felt or what you saw?How much of life do you let pass by without a thought? 16 Life is made up of experiences. Many of life's experiences are as momentary asthe second in which they exist.Feel them.Live them. 17 Think of all of the times you took a shortcut in order to accomplish something.What was the purpose?It was probably so you could hurry up and get on to the next project orsituation you believed needed your attention. Maybe you wished to be somewhereelse, doing something else, and so you rushed. Whatever reasoning you may havepossessed, by rushing through one subject and on to the next, you missed thebeauty of living and experiencing the present moment fully. 18 "I can't wait!"Th