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January 25th, 2010 Stone and Water
The Tao Te Ching, an ancient text of wisdom written by Lao Tzu, speaks
often of water. Without substance it requires no opening This is the benefit of taking no action. A few days ago we adventured to place where stone and water have worked together to create a landscape of great beauty and drama. Uncounted seasons of flowing water have carved sharp-edged cliffs, curving ravines, and scrolled their secret whispers in a language that can still be read only by witches and geologists. Nothing in the world is so yielding as water Yet nothing can better overcome the hard and the strong Here stone was sculpted by water, the stories of spring floods and untold eons of sediments archived in each bend and twist of the ravines. The best part of us is like water which benefits all things and does not contend with them which flows in places that others disdain.
Stone and Water have danced together to create immense beauty, and there is a stirring of the elements in places like this -- the stone has taken on the soft, flowing appearance of water in places, and where the ice flows from the cliffs it is as hard and solid as rock. This is the magical blending of the natural world, where no lines define our perceptions, and we are free to simply Be.
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Water overcomes the stone