Each living creature of life has a sensitive vibration of feeling, and many have a cherished awareness. We human beings somehow think that ours is “superior,” better, and magnificent. However, with much of our fancy ideas and thinking, we are destroying the ecological balance of the whole… of the globe. We perceive and think in the ways that we were taught to perceive and think… primarily in parts, fragmentarily. We see the so-called “outer environment” fragmentally, as what can be used piecemeal, to be exploited, manipulated, and used.
However, the so-called outer is really not separate from the inner. The observer is not separate from the observed. Similarly, space and matter are not separate from what time is. We are of matter’s (thought’s) doings; we are thought, time, and the movement of time. The intelligence of meditation takes place when thought is not merely habitual and endless. Thought/thinking is always partial, always fragmentary, and sequential. Real meditation is consciousness beyond the stirrings of its content; it is an effortless, unplanned, holistic quietness beyond mere fragmentation and sequential patterns. The timeless can only reveal itself when the mind intelligently perceives beyond the fragmentary movement of its content.
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What you wrote today is so true. There is a connection among all things: a connection which can be nurtured or broken. I found myself thinking of the title of one of Annie Dillard’s books, Teaching a Stone to Talk. Some people would laugh, saying, impossible! I’m not so sure.
Yes, a connection is there. Stones may talk when one fully realizes that the perceiver is the perceived. So if you talk around stones that you see… in a way, the stones are talking. 🙂
From the ancient Gospel of Thomas:
Jesus said, “Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being. If you become my disciples and listen to my words, these stones will minister to you.”
Another WOW image – love the detail and colors.
Accompanied by a truth more people need to grasp the details and colors of … you are contributing to a slow awakening … thank you!
Thank you, Jazz. 🙂 The awakening is too slow.
Wonderful shot! When I meditate, I sometimes reach that place beyond fragmentation and sequential patterns–a timeless place. Hard to put into words.
Good, if it is actually happening. The thing about meditation is that an “I” cannot do it or make it happen. Additionally, one cannot (with an “I” involved or not) ever know that one is meditating; it is an unknowable thing. But one gets where you are coming from with this! 🙂
Love this post! And the photograph is incredible! 😀
Thank you, Sabine. 🙂 The post does have a depth that i appreciate (more than the depth of the photo). 🙂
Yes, that depth is a big part of why I love this post! 🙂
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Yes, we like to think we’re smart and above it all, but really we are not. The grasshopper hopefully is pondering life and his next meal, and not his future as he pauses on the leaf. What a great close-up shot Tom.
We humans are above it all… if we get on a tall ladder! 🙂
Thanks much, Linda! 🙂
Had to stop in for a visit and like what I’m seeing and reading here. Great photos and I love your perception of life. Definitely agree with it.
Thank you, insearchofitall. I like your username. 🙂
Keep inquiring! 🙂
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