Moments

Zen Moments
"The Zen nun Jiko Yasutani once told me in a dream that you cant understand what it means to be alive on this earth until you understand the time being, and in order to understand the time being, she said, you have to understand what a moment is.
.....a moment is a very small particle of time. It is so small that one day is made of
6,400,099,980 moments.
.....thats how many moments Zen Master Dogen posited are in one day, and after she rattled off the number, old Jiko snapped her fingers.
.....please try it, she said. Did you snap? Because if you did, that snap equals sixty-five moments."
From A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki