AYA ANDO

Everything is happening Now - all at the same moment.

Now, you are.

Now you are not.

Now, you haven't been born.

Now you are just born.

Now you are dead.

How can you feel that the past and the future are happening now?

Here is a memory of when my grandfather and I went into the forest to cut wood for fire He used an electric saw to cut up the tree in one fell swoop, and the tree fell over. I ran up to the stump and put my cheek against the annual ring that had just appeared.

Then suddenly I felt the shape of energy of the tree.

The tree had been cut down a second earlier and three-quarters of its body was already gone, but the stump was still feeling it's original shape. It was feeling the individual leaves on the ends of its branches, still sending energy to every corner of the former self.

The memory of the tree was certainly there. Even though the tree had already been cut down, the presence of the cut part was still there.

This experience has made me question the structure of time.