—Joan HalifaxAgain, from Joan Halifax: Buddhism, shamanism, and deep ecology are ways for us to understand and realize that this Earth is a vast and rich network of mutual arisings, dyings, and renewings. Seeing this, we experience ourselves as part of the world around us, and the world around us is part of us. It is from this base that authentic harmlessness and helpfulness awaken.Einstein proposed that the universe be regarded as a field which is an unbroken and undivided whole. Particles are then treated as certain kinds of abstraction from the total field, notably as localized regions in which the field is very intense. As one gets further from the center of such a region, the field gets weaker, until it merges imperceptibly with the fields of other particles.
—David BohmAgain, from David Bohm: Einstein’s emphasis on undivided wholeness of the universe in terms of field is carried yet further. For even that which "observes" or "measures" the field can no longer consistently be regarded as something that exists separately from the field.
Wading in to cross the late season river quickly becomes surprising and a sticky muck. Why even risk sinking? For me, to sense place — in the two senses — the sensual and the common. And to simply cross the river to the dark boulders — precise petroglyphs active and dense, the stone deeply imbued with water and wind — time slipping by as particles. To traverse beaver country. To walk the land, clear and compelling. To listen to what is said. —DB
CODA
Perhaps one thing only is of great concern to me: whether I come closer, slowly, by detours, circling here and there, moving away, returning, but always with one aim. Coming closer to what? To a knowledge, though of what kind I do not know, to comprehension.
—Czeslaw Milosz, Unattainable Earth (1986)
Perhaps one thing only is of great concern to me: whether I come closer, slowly, by detours, circling here and there, moving away, returning, but always with one aim. Coming closer to what? To a knowledge, though of what kind I do not know, to comprehension.
—Czeslaw Milosz, Unattainable Earth (1986)
NOTES
—Joan Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth (1993)
—David Bohm, The Art of Perceiving Movement (Essay, 1971)
—Joan Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting with the Body of the Earth (1993)
—David Bohm, The Art of Perceiving Movement (Essay, 1971)