Re: Observing Nature Aicerno OCathasaigh akiernox_ocasey@hotmail.com Fri Mar 12 12:01:20 1999 TopazOwl wrote,*br*: Beirdd wrote,*br*: : Here are just some thoughts on a subject that I should *br*: : probably take more time to examine.*br*:*br*: Nevertheless, well-written. I haven't taken any *br*: offense, like some people did when this was presented *br*: elsewhere. Does anyone here see anything in this to take *br*: offense with?*p*I see nothing in this to which one could take offense, unless they belong to the petro-chemical industry. . . I certainly like this piece.*p*: : It is very fashionable nowadays to talk about one’s “nature *br*: : experiences,” to nod sagely when hearing about the beauty *br*: : and importance of the great outdoors, or to shed an *br*: : invisible tear and bite the lower lip when litter crosses *br*: : one’s path. *br*:*br*: Yes it is. And it is not fashionable anymore to not *br*: worry too much about it, to just quietly clean up where one *br*: sees the need, to take care of your own corner of the world. *br*: Now we have to care for everyone else's corner as well. But, *br*: if we all just took care of our own...*p*Too true, if everyone took care of their corner there would be no need for others to do the job. . . It boils down to self-responsibility, and personal ethics. A job done well once, is much better than a job that is done poorly and must needs be redone over and over again. . .*br*Here-in lies the crux, to keep oneself clean, and to clean up afetr oneself helps towards doing the job right the first time around for caring for our planet, home, and mother.*p*: : Contrary to what we normally like to believe, nature *br*: : does not open itself to us so easily; the “outdoors” are not *br*: : waiting to rush in to the chaos of our shady human hearts, *br*: : let alone our eyes, ears and other senses. Heraclitus once *br*: : said, “Nature loves to hide."*br*:*br*: My question here is this, my friend -- how can nature *br*: hide when we are part of Her? We hide, we seperate *br*: ourselves. She doesn't do that to us. She is open to us; it *br*: is our eyes that do not see.*p*Nature only hides herself from those who do not open themselves to her beauty. . . There remains to be. . . if one opens their eyes and their hearts, there is nothing that nature will not reveal to them. I will not comment about the Greek quotation for fear of personal bias. . .*br*Truly, I was granted a most marvelous sight the other day. . . a herd of five deer ran across the road while I was on my way home. . . and always I am thankful to be allowed to see such visions, when such sights are no longer possible, ours shall be a physically and spiritually dead place.*p*: : Only the eye and spirit, trained in an attentiveness that *br*: : permits a metaphysical clarity, can penetrate the make-up to *br*: : find that of which everything is made. Such a training *br*: : needs to begin within the seer, whose expectations, *br*: : assumptions, and limited egocentric view, must be shed like *br*: : the months-old ice at the touch of the spring sun.*br*:*br*: Yes. Difficult thing to do, at best, and impossible for *br*: many. I think maybe what you are trying to get at here is *br*: what actually makes a seer? For these qualities *are* what *br*: makes a seer different.*p*This is what makes the seer different, being able to see that which is unseen by others. . . For such training to begin, it is necesary for those points to be achieved, but then that is why the seer can be compared to the serpent because the seer can shed their biases like a snake sheds its skin and go to the heart of the matter unencumbered by that which keeps most chained to the mundane world.*p*: : In our silent, still moments of *br*: : attentiveness, we become as nascent as nature, open to and *br*: : defining the meaning of life, constantly born and reborn, *br*: : spinning in the sacred dance we would otherwise watch *br*: : blindly from the moving walls of our own obsession.*br*:*br*: Sheer poetry. :-)*br*:*br*: Leigh*p*And the cycles move on, end, and begin again within the triskelle Labarinth (as seen on the frontispiece at New Grange). Death, birth, and renewal the part of the process, the web we seek is that which we live in. . . And the waters of youth are forever known for they reside in our hearts and with our world. . . The world, the universe, the species that fill this planet with all its glorius colors and sounds, the waves of motion from water and wind, the power of the silence of a mountain sunrise, and the magnatude of our planet's glory, are the necesary means of true understanding.*p*Aicerno OCathasaigh Re: Observing Nature TopazOwl 401 Thu Mar 11 16:36:31 1999