"Overboard watch the swirling blue water. It was deep at this point, infinitely deep, and enlivened with what appeared to be the eternal life. But the water has no fixed and determined form. Is it not because man has a fixed and determined form that he can not have eternal life? Doesn't Real life begin when the tangible form has been lost?"
"The world is always filled by the sound of waves.
The fishes who surrender to the waves can dance, sing, play but who knows the heart of the sea, a hundred feet below? Who knows its depths?"
The End; The Perfect Light - Eiji YOSHIKAWA
thank you for sharing this.
RépondreSupprimer"Doesn't Real life begin when the tangible form has been lost?"
But we experience reality through our senses...
Can a human being experience some greater Reality by abandoning his senses? I imagine, that must be some form of intense mediation.
Even the tangible forms are in motion, like the sound of waves. We are not set in stone.
*meditation
RépondreSupprimerand doesn't meditation rely on focusing on the senses?
It's hard to imagine that human beings can leave the tangible...because it is the tangible that prove our own existence to ourselves.
I take this phrase not litterally; the goal is to forget oneself, because in absolute whatever is your corporeal envelope it has no importance, so you can act thanks to your body but how you look must have no impact on what you can do, when you free yourself from focusing too much on you then you can see what will truly make you evolve and gain knowledge, the peace you can get, everything becomes possible, it makes sense to me, i think the majority of the internal barriers we all create is because we consider how the things around, the events, the thought of others, our acts, will have an impact on us, we are clearly too focused on ourselves, there is many references behind that, first it's a deeply anchored idea in Buddhism, then the way of samourai teach you how you can defy death by transcending yourself (the book from which i quoted this excerpt is about the way of the samourai), clearly if you don't focus on yourself you can do everything without fear, and it's a huge step to learn quicker, to experience, i read the first lines of the book by herman Hesse you offered me and to me he is also, already on the first words, on this way of freeing himself, the wanderer is someone who doesn't belong somewhere precisely, no, he belongs everywhere, all is possible with no fears, focusing on ourselves is vain, what we can learn is outside of us, the analysis can be done on our resting moments but when we want to go forward, we have to stop thinking about the effects on us.
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