SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- DAY THIRTY-FIVE

"This Absolute Reason is beyond quickening time and extending space,
For it, one instant is ten thousand years;
Whether we see it or not,
It is manifest everywhere in all the ten quarters."

Absolute Reason transcends quickening time and extending space, after all - these are really just concepts. What we have available to us is here right now - before concepts and discrimination appear. All that is is fully reflected in the infinite present. Past, present, and future converge with the ten directions right here now. Don't continue searching and striving, open up to the present and wake up...

This operates whether we see it or not:

"...If you do not see the way, you do not see it even as you walk on it.
When you walk the way, it is not near, it is not far.
If you are deluded, you are mountains and rivers away from it..." -The Sandokai by Sekitō