Carpe diem – sieze the day – live now, here and now. I think of it as surfing a large wave or watching a terrific movie or having great sex – the mind is totally caught in the present moment as it passes through the activity. But what of meditation where all activity is reduced to the barest minimum? Here the present moment is no longer a tight point of intensity burning its way through time but instead a portal or doorway through which one passes into long time, deep time, dream time, or what my teacher simply called energy. This sense and experience of time is completely lacking in modern life, and consequently we are incapable of considering anything but the short term, hence the present predicament of the planet and its species. The only hope we have, as a species as well as individuals, is to spend some of our daily time slipping out of frenzied presence and into this deep quiet aspect of time.