"Is the present moment all that truly exists?" Lily H.'s koan

Zen master:   "There is only the present.  There is only the present
                                                                                                    m o m e n t
                                                                                                                       and no other. "

Student:   "Then shall I give up all hope of eternity?"

L'ange au sourire de la cathedrale de Reims.  (La statue originale datait de 1236-1245).

"What has changed are the names, not the dance." Lily H.

Danse de le vie humaine (Dance to the music of time).

(Nicolas Poussin, 1640. Wallace Collection, London).

"Invitation to the dance. What dance? And Why?" (Anonymous)

 Invitation to the dance.

(Michaelangelo Merisi, 1598.  Uffizi, Florence).

What dance?  And why?

" I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Lorenz Hart)

I didn't know what time it was
Till I met you.
Oh, what a lovely time it was,
How sublime it was too!
I didn't know what day it was
You held my hand.
Warm like the month of May it was,
and I'll say it was grand.
Grand to be alive, to be young,
to be mad, to be yours alone!
Grand to see your face, feel your touch,
hear your voice say I'm yours alone.

I didn't know what time it was
then I met you.
Oh, what a lovely time it was,
How sublime it was too!
I didn't know what day it was
then you hold my hand.
Warm like the month of May it was,
and I'll say it was grand.
Grand to be alive, to be young,
to be mad, to be yours alone!
Grand to see your face, feel your touch,
hear your voice say I'm all your own. 

I didn't know what year it was
life was no prize.
I wanted love and here it was
shining out of your eyes.
I'm wise,
and I know what time it is now.
I'm wise,
and I know what time it is now.
I'm so wise,
and I know what time it is now.




                        Lorenz Hart (1895-1943)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_rXXnYENVI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Op5qL1CvGs

"L'amour..." anonyme, attribue a Lily H.

L'amour c'est le pouls de l'univers entier.

-attribue a Lily H.

"Bows and flows of angel hair..." (Joni Mitchell)

Bows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all...


http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/joni+mitchell/both+sides+now_20075289.html

"Bewitched, bothered and bewildered..." (Lorenz Hart)

I'm wild again

Beguiled again

A simpering, whimpering child again,

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

http://www.lorenzhart.org/bewitchedsng.htm

detail of "Judith and Holofernes" by Michaelangelo Merisi dit "Caravaggio" (1599), oil on canvas, Palazzo Barberini in Rome.