Heaven embraces the horizon
No matter how jagged the profile,
The sky faithfully conforms.
"Wherever you are, the sky constantly meets the horizon...We often think of the landscape as being in the foreground and the sky as the background. It is because the sky is always in the background that it can meet the outline of the foreground perfectly. If we emulate this feature of being in the background, then we too can find perfect conformity with life. Such adaptation is not passivity, however. It is concordance. It is because the sky is in the background that it is in fact supreme. So too with ourselves. If we know how to adapt, we end up being supreme."
Adapting
365 Tao: Daily Meditations
Den Ming Dao
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4 comments:
The picture is beautiful as is the meditation. Thank you. It fills me, today.
Just found your site. Thank you so much for sharing your insights and your reflections and helping me find mine.
Have you seen the seascape photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto? http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/seascape.html
The photo alone takes my breath away! Colors so rich and deep and a extensive range of values really. The dark is inviting and restful--quite full and warm. Alone the photo is exquisite; adding the poetry and meditation enhances "If we know how to adapt, we end up being supreme." transcendent, truly! Will you make a book of these? Thank you, thank you!!!!!
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