常道，常名

💙Metamorphosis💙

“At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the splashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons. There is nothing… with which I am not linked.”

—

Carl Jung

art by Vanessa Lemen

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

Houses in Auvers, 1890, Vincent van Gogh

Medium: oil,canvas

Up Down and everything in-between

"Nature is playful and terrible. Some see the playful side and dally with it and let it sparkle. Others see the horror and cover their heads and are more dead than alive. The way does not lead between both, but embraces both. It is both cheerful play and cold horror."

C. G. Jung. “The Red Book”, p. 288, footnote 141

Water Is LIfe “We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.” Jacques Yves Cousteau Vessel by Miles Toland

All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Hakuin Ekaku (via aspiritualwarrior)

To be owned by one's true self, end of the individuation process

La femme a une puissance singulière qui se compose de la réalité de la force et de l'apparence de la faiblesse.

- Victor Hugo