Resilience Of The Rivers
Resilience of the rivers
ཡར་ཀླུངས་གཙང་པོ་, the Yarlung Tsangpo river of Tibet, also known as 雅魯藏布江 or as the river of the roof of the world, is the highest watercourse on earth. Called the “Everest of Rivers” because of the extreme conditions in which it flows and its lofty elevation which averages about 4000 meters, Yarlung Tsangpo starts from the Angsi Glacier and runs across Tibet, India and then meets the Bay of Bengal. It is the Upper stream of Brahmaputra River and has to navigate its way through multiple mountain ranges. While leaving the Tibetan Plateau, the river forms the world’s largest and deepest canyon, 雅魯藏布大峽谷 Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, which is comparatively much longer than the Grand Canyon of America.
Noûs: a river is stronger than any mountain.
Its way, ever searching, ever flowing, always finds its path around any obstacle. The true strength of the flow shows. Drawn by its pull to the sea, bolstered by gravity, every river seeks out its path, creates it.
And the canyons resulting from this search, are magnificent pieces of natural art which serve as a reminder, that in nature, water always cuts rock.
道德經 Dao De Jing [Chapter 36]
柔胜刚， 弱胜强。
The soft overcomes the hard; and the weak the strong
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12 道德經:
五色令人目盲
五音令人耳聾
五味令人口爽
馳騁田獵，令人心發狂
難得之貨，令人行妨。
是以聖人為腹不為目，故去彼取此。
12 The five colors blind the eye. The five notes deafen the ear. The five flavors dull the palate. Racing and hunting drive the heart wild. Goods that are hard to obtain hinder the journey. Therefore, the True Person is guided more by the belly than the eye, and prefers this within to that without.
or,
Dao De Jing: (The repression of the desires) Colour's five hues from the eyes their sight will take; Music's five notes the ears as deaf can make; The flavours five deprive the mouth of taste; The chariot course, and the wild hunting waste Make mad the mind; and objects rare and strange, Sought for, men's conduct will to evil change. Therefore the sage seeks to satisfy (the craving of) the belly, and not the (insatiable longing of the) eyes. He puts from him the latter, and prefers to seek the former.
Gilles, 1719, Jean-Antoine Watteau
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