Image by Leslin_Liu from Pixabay
Temple stones echo
a thousand meditations
in the lake's ripples.
The reflection found in meditation is almost an indescribable thing. It is more of a finding or a feeling. A realization of the dualities inherent in existence that are at once both the temple and the lake. The illusion that you, the object and the reflection is somehow separate is called in to question when a breeze ripples the surface of the water.
Many would say that the opposite is true... that the solidity of the temple in contrast to the movement of reflection in the lake proves the separate-ness of all things. This is true from a logical perspective, true from the perspective of an 'I' observing two separate material constructions/manifestations.
In a deep state of meditation, where thought has stopped, the fundamental connection comes as a feeling, or an allowing, that lives outside of thinking. Even taken from the logical standpoint, the ability to recognize the concept of 'I' quantifying how all the parts of the observed are separate, begs the question - what is beyond the me that is questioning?
We suffer from a hallucination, from a false and distorted sensation of our own existence as living organisms. Most of us have the sensation that “I myself” is a separate center of feeling and action, living inside and bounded by the physical body — a center which “confronts” an “external” world of people and things, making contact through the senses with a universe both alien and strange. Everyday figures of speech reflect this illusion. “I came into this world.” “You must face reality.” “The conquest of nature.”
This feeling of being lonely and very temporary visitors in the universe is in flat contradiction to everything known about man (and all other living organisms) in the sciences. We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
Quote from Alan watts The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
I have decided to challenge myself for a month (from today until the 28th of April) to post a daily Haiku on Hive. Each week will have a different theme based on picture prompts from either Pixabay.com or Unsplash.com.
This week's broad theme is Ancient Wisdom.
To read more about the aesthetics of true haiku, and the difference between haiku and senryu, please check out my post: Haiku Vs Senryu - The Aesthetics of Form
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