Shundo David Haye – Zen Priest

‘Even so, even you’re making your effort to follow the time, time is not different from what you do. What you do is actually time, even though you are — whether you are in a hurry or not. What you do — there is no time. There is nothing which could be called time but what you do, and what you see. So time is very — time itself is Buddha, which is always with us. Whatever we do, time is with us. But we human beings always try to control ourselves. When we try to control ourselves we– it means that we want to feel better. And this desire is just for ourselves. Everything may have desire in its wide sense, but human desire is very dualistic. We should be in time. It is only human beings who separate the reality and idea of time. So it is our destiny to control — our human destiny to control ourselves by the idea of time, by the idea of Buddha. The Buddha is necessary for human being.’ (from the Suzuki Roshi Archive)

The Monday group tackled this answer from the shosan last week. I appreciate how there are hints of Dogen’s Uji in the answer.