Yesterday I wrote about some really long periods of time - calculable perhaps, but not really comprehensible. Last night I was at a concert of the composers group that I belong to, and as I was listening to one of the pieces of newly composed music, I thought of the image of the sun, as it sets the horizon aglow, just before it rises.
I thought of that as an image of the present moment, that moment of awareness and anticipation, if I could just stay in that state, always. The horizon, which is that point where something first appears, or on the other side, disappears from view, is always there, although the events it reveals change constantly.
Being in the present moment is being continually aware of the horizon. It isn't attention for a moment, but attention of the passing of each moment through the stream of time.
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