It is as it is
posted by Phil | 12:57 PM
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You have left us hanging with this entry: What incident or thoughts prompted the quote? The photo is quite beautiful but how is it related to the quote? Without more explanation, the quote is too esoteric to be useful or comfortable.
To Anonymous:
Thanks for your welcomed comment.
The quote is from a Buddhist teacher, Ajahn Sumedho, from his book "The Mind and the Way". My thought was that we label "things" and expect the labels to define the subject/object --- while all the while that naming is just our mind's reference point (naming for reference) As for the picture, it is an example of "It Is As It Is"
just some marks on paper which represent a thought, but are really ink, paper,molecules, light and darkness, etc. etc.
You see?
Again, thanks,
Phil
"Just thoughts on paper"?
The photo is an image of two real creatures of nature as they would appear to anyone with visual ability to see them in their environment and captured by manufactured photographic equipment that records whereever it is pointed very methodically, over and over, without thought of whether it is good or bad. This image is not drawn by the hand of man, remembering the image he saw as a thought from his memory. Thus the confusion, trying to apply connection between image and verse from Sumedho.
To Anonymous:
Thanks for your comment.
Marc Barrie paints with oil,on canvass. The original was, indeed, drawn by the hand of man.
As for your confusion with a text and image connection, it simply "Is
What It Is".
That is the point of the piece. You are making it far too complicated.
Try to intuit
with meditation on parts of the whole.
I stand corrected.
I am missing that apparent talent to appreciate meditation of It Is What It Is.
Thank You.
To Anonymous:
Thanks, again, for your comments and participation.
You aren't missing any talents. It is a matter of practice and patience. It's already in you and you have but to discover it.
Namaste,
Phil
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