Welcome! These lessons promote a sense of oneness between the individual, one another and Nature. Oneness is approached through a perception of patterns that connect across the disciplines, engagement with beauty through art, awareness that we are made up of and embedded within complex systems and consciousness that we and all lifeforms are the result of co-evolution. For Gregory Bateson the emergent property of this process is grace.
Monday, May 16, 2016
Red-winged blackbird from The Birds of America (1827-1828) by John James Audubon
After a while she looks up and says, "What did you see?"
"There was a whole flock of red-winged blackbirds. They rose up suddenly when we went by."
"Oh."
"I was happy to see them again. They tie things together, thoughts and such. You know?"
She thinks for a while and then, with the trees behind her a deep green, she smiles. She understands a peculiar language which has nothing to do with what you are saying. A daughter.
"Yes," she says. "They’re beautiful."
"Watch for them," I say.
"All right."
From Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (1974, p.9)
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