Footsteps in the sand
Quickly washed away;
The seashore mind.
"We often let thoughts, regrets, and doubts from past activities carry over into the present. This leads us to conflict. Instead of allowing this to happen, we should act without leaving consequences. This requires great thoroughness. Such completeness is challenging, but to succeed, is to live perfectly. By resolving the problems of each day to our utmost satisfaction, we attain the sublime purity of a beach constantly washed by waves."
41: Resolution
365 Tao: Daily Meditations
Deng Ming-Dao
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The seashore mind, perfect. Another book I must find, thank you! The variety of horizontal lines are very stabilizing, aren't they? The figures contrast with the breaking waves, no details to distract. Two upright, two bent- over figures make a pleasing pattern and lead the eye around, probably more than all vertical figures would. Nice timing to catch them thus. The shadows are lovely echoes and reinforce the lines 'quickly washed away' as the shadows are less strong than the figures as if they're already being washed away. I'm learning so much from you, thank you!
I love the contrast of "mostly monotone", and the repetition of the horizontal lines - both extremes of elegant simplicity, -- with the movement, focus, pleasure and joy the figures suggest to me.
thank you Fay
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