We just returned from four days spent exploring the magical world of Yellowstone National Park! The stunning beauty of the hot springs can teach us to take a similar attitude of awe toward the mundane occurrences of everyday life. Because of the interwoven nature of reality - what Thich Nhat Hanh calls "interbeing" - we might say that the Park's natural beauty manifests the Yellowstone aspect of our ordinary lives, while our ordinary lives manifest the more subdued or muted aspect of Yellowstone :) Each IS the other: a truth known sequentially in the MOVEMENT from one to the other, rather than in the static mode needed for the isolated, billiard-ball self to obtain knowledge of a thing.
Photo: Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park, WY, September 5, 2015
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