Let’s Eat Time Together
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Look well, friends, the difference between night & day
Is nothing to get excited about — study this well!
Contemplate deeply as the wise ones do,
Seeing it’s all just “time,” with the same value.
Whether bright or dark, don’t stretch or compress
Time into shorter or longer with your desires
That devour and digest the lives of beings.
Please be careful not to let it chew you to
In other words, have no “Me” that is “Mine”
To live or to die. Drop your foolish worries,
Empty the mind of Ego & I, realize Voidness —
That’s how to eat time & kill it thoroughly.