A group of young students saw the sagacious Lo Zu sitting upon a big boulder with a contented look on his face, a face that seemed to radiate much wisdom and clear perception. The students approached Lo Zu and asked him why he never entered the temples.
Lo Zu replied, “I do not enter the temples because they are primitive, manmade fabrications that have nothing to do with the truly sacred. Besides, that vast, timeless sacredness does not have an ego that wants to be worshipped by men or other strange creatures. What is trapped in time and limitation cannot adequately communicate with the timeless and the unlimited. He or she who has a limited ego cannot be communion with that which is beyond boundaries and confinement. True intelligence goes beyond fabrications and limitations. Go to the temples if you wish… but that ineffable sacredness isn’t there (in a limited space).”
My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
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Yes, indeed, but we primitive mammals referring to it as “watching” is rather erroneous and, additionally, it’s not in the realm of things (or entities). Thanks, Sara! 😉
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As Richard Powers states so succinctly “Something is always watching”
Yes, indeed, but we primitive mammals referring to it as “watching” is rather erroneous and, additionally, it’s not in the realm of things (or entities). Thanks, Sara! 😉
Loved the tiny detail of the ants on the flower, Tom.
Thank you, Siobhan (although those are not ants). 😊
That is a fabulous picture of a sunflower (I think) Tom and two tiny creatures, twins perhaps, about to embark on the bed of seeds.