An environment eternal: this place of water in the desert attracted travelers, seekers, through thousands of years of solidity and change… Seeking resolve, resolve in seeing with the night of stone. A mineral landscape of erosion, adherence and deposition.
Then, the cutting through, the exposure of the light in the stone. The old atomic knowing. The night of stone wavers, shadows the inevitable departure.
Sparks, marks, made, signaling to and from, to and fro, involute, the universe, Indra's jeweled net.
CODA
The Tao is infinite, eternal.
Why is it eternal?
It was never born;
thus it can never die.
Why is it infinite?
It has no desires for itself;
thus it is present for all beings.
The Master stays behind;
that is why she is ahead.
She is detached from all things;
that is why she is one with them.
Because she has let go of herself,
she is perfectly fulfilled.
TAO TE CHING
—Translated by Stephen Mitchell
NOTES
—Photos above from the rock rim pictured in the July 21 2026 post: The Night of Stone. Harney County, Oregon, with good fortune for fellow travelers, photos by DB.
