[MD] an eagle

[Heather Perella]

Dan G.:
> Each time I travel into the mountains I have to stop
> and stare at the scenery. I feel like such a
> tourist. I am compelled to pull off the road while
> traffic continues scowling by. The locals, on their
> way to their jobs or whatever other hurry is driving
> them, are seemingly oblivious to the Dynamic beauty
> that I'm drinking in. I see it in their impatient
> mannerisms and the unhappy looks marring their
> faces.
> I guess the splendor of the mountains has become --
> to the locals -- a static everyday affair, just
> another social pattern of value ... something they
> pass on the way to work, unworthy of even a second
> glance. Maybe that's why I know I'll never live
> there. My senses would doubtlessly dull over time
> until I no longer saw the beauty either. 


SA:  Dan, if you don't live there you are a tourist. 
They are going to work, so, they have to drive by and
get to work.  I know your setting up something
profound, and don't listen to me, but at this moment
if I were at the mountains at would stop and stare
too, but if I was going to work, I'd drive right on by
and go to work.
       About your "senses would doubtlessly dull", I
don't think that has anything to do with if you live
there or not.  It does have to do more with your
comments below, but how to rejuvenate and sustain a
livable pattern that is social that allows for
automatic changes.  I say automatic for everything
always changes.  Further north on this earth, and
further up mountains seasonal changes are drastic
changes.  Close to the equator the changes might
involve flowering of certain plant life.  In
Antarctica one would be the penguins leaving and
returning, in the high elevation mountains it would be
storms.  This goes for our very lives.  We've passed
over this mind-terrain before, and yet it is how we
might express our nature in creative ways that may
change.  For example, one that we are very familiar
with, Marsha talks about emptiness very often, yet, in
the context of this forum, and were I am in my life,
how I contemplate this emptiness changes.  This is the
teaching of boredom. 

Dan:
> I think it's good to see the wonder of the world
> with fresh eyes, a full heart, and an empty mind.
> Static quality would appear to be the enemy of all
> three. When we cease to be surprised then Dynamic
> Quality has been shuttled to the back of the train
> instead of the front, so to speak. Expectations
> arise, which are nothing more than static filters
> clouding the wonder of reality. 
> Perhaps that's the lesson of the eagle... ? ...


SA:  Yes, and this is a static pattern.  Dan, you and
I and many others know this already.  Simply knowing,
as you well know, doesn't do anything.


gray clouds,
SA

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