Foolish people eat unhealthy foods and swallow foolish thoughts. The wise man is beyond such indelicacies.
True meditation is beyond will and methods. You can’t, in a mental framework of conditioning, make meditation happen any more than you can make God come to you in enlightenment.
Profound awareness goes beyond the separation between the perceiver and the images perceived.
Except for moments of pristine insight, every thought (including the thought of “I”) is a conditioned response reaction.
Perception merely through the mental screen of learned and absorbed thoughts and images isn’t really much perception at all.
Most think way more than they feel. It is best the other way around!
The historical Christ was killed because he didn’t follow hierarchical orthodoxy… and now, many hundreds of years later, orthodoxy claims him as their own.
The purpose of life is not merely to feel good but to make a meaningful difference in this world.
How can you be free and perceptive if you are behind the gilded cage bars made of rigid beliefs and fabrications?
Nothing you can accumulate in your lifetime is worth the price of your integrity.
Reaching Still. (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2016
Reaching Still. (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2016
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amazing photo
Thank you, sixrosesplusone! 🙂
Very different but beautiful
Thank you, beautiful and different is good! 🙂
>> The purpose of life is not merely to feel good but to make a meaningful difference in this world.
>>Nothing you can accumulate in your lifetime is worth the price of your integrity.
Take care Tom
Regards
So glad you are appreciative of it, Babu! Keep looking up! 🙂
Kind of you Tom. 🙂
Take care
Regards
haha I thought these were trees when I first saw your photo. Excellent shot to go with your unique thoughts 🙂
They are just spent Thistle plants. No bees or butterflies craving them now! 🙂
But a great angle! I imagine you crawling on the ground – or perhaps you have a “selfie stick”. 😀
I was kneeling on the ground… with all the crickets and ants! 🙂
It is better that way isn’t it. Really nice photo and the words that came from it are a perfect pairing. (I love the view btw. Never have I seen a thistle from such an enlightened view.)😊
So glad you like the combination, bits! 🙂
These thistle appear is if skyscrapers of the desert! Ha ha Tom, thank you for providing unique and wise thoughts for pondering.
Very glad you consider them wise and enlightened (among the skyscrapers), Lori! 🙂
I would agree with Babu Suresh and really liked your photo, too. Have a nice day, Thomas, regards Mitza
Glad you see it, Mitza! Tweetie says, “Hi!” 🙂
thanks, that’s nice from Tweetie
great shot!
Much appreciated, Jan! 🙂
Great shot! Were you lying on the ground or was the placement of the thistles staged? Either way, you get an “A” for vision and ingenuity!
I was very close to lying on the ground, Mary, but not quite! There are tons of little insects in that area all over the terrain. 🙂
looks like you got deep
down to offer these perspectives, Tom 🙂
In more ways than one, David! 🙂
What an amazing shot, Tom!
I think we have too many selfish, self-centered, greedy… people. They don’t see anything wrong with it. 😕
Yes, Amy! So many people seem to be getting more and more uncaring, more and more separative!
I thought this was thistle.
It is very medicinal. I will have to try to replant the seeds I had from a wild one.
Thank goodness fotr birds and wind…
I take it 3 times a week to help cleanse the liver. It is very medicinal! 🙂
Cool perspective. The first photo almost looks like towering cacti.
Thank you, btb! The only cacti around here grow low to the ground.
wonderful shots
Thank you, cattan! 🙂