Everything appears – in the present moment, right now. Things happen,  right now, not in past or present. So practice should be the practice of “right now.” When we, you know, catch things, how you catch it? You cannot…..you cannot catch past or future. You can catch just the present moment, right now. If you want to catch someone, you should catch him right now, not past or not in future. So if you want to practice, you should practice right now. But because we are always, you know, involved in thinking mind, and because we try to understand teaching, you know, with seeking mind, in term of present or past or now or later,  or always….. The wave and water, right now, it is – wave is water, water is wave. But if you think about it,  you have the idea of water and idea of wave because you saw it, because you saw the wave and you have idea of water. And you may think: “But that is water. Water is something like this, you know.”  But right now when you see waves on the water, wave is water and water is wave, right now, when you don’t think.

From a transcript of Suzuki Roshi talk, 1969, Emptiness is Form