After reading the teaching “The fairy of time,” I was inspired to go for a hike on a trail I think of as a “fairy trail” in the magnificent Rocky Mountains where I live. As I was hiking up the mountain along the bubbling, gleaming creek of melting snow, I came upon a shrine dedicated to the protectors of
dharma and water. I was moved to pause there and sing
Jyota se Jyota Jagao. As I swayed and danced on a boulder on the edge of the creek as the light of the sun radiated in and around me, I felt I was experiencing “the fairy of time.”
Colorado, United States
“The fairy of time,” like all fairies, is imbued with magical abilities or at least abilities that we humans do not have and can only wonder at. I have seen time shrink to almost nothing as it diminishes (to my eyes) from several hours into minutes. At other times, ten minutes can seem like eternity. Sometimes my daily hour-long meditation seems to go on forever, yet on other days it passes so quickly.
When I was a young child, I understood from “the fairy of time” that my life had an infinite amount of time in it. Now, that same fairy reminds me that I have only a limited amount of time left and that I should use it wisely. And when my mind stills, when I am totally focused in that space between the breaths and fully in the present moment, the time fairy disappears completely, is nowhere to be found.
How can one understand “the fairy of time”? Maybe it’s just best to enjoy and love it.
New York, United States
Like the proverbial fairy, time is a wonderful magical companion. Time grants us the power to remember moments of love, to reflect on what needs to be learned, to appreciate our evolution on this sacred adventure of sadhana, and to be grateful for the transformation that has occurred and continues to unfold after shaktipat.
California, United States