Man never meditates over his own place in nature
Man never meditates over his own place in nature. He either thinks himself a proprietor or, nowadays, an inherent threat. He is neither. His place in this world is a mystery. He is given a chance to live and die on earth but things shall function rather well in his absence. He is not 'necessary'.
He never meditates = he never watches.
He never considers what happens when he populates beyond what a space can take. Man is busy dreaming, establishing, expanding - for various noble or ignoble purposes.
And his population swells, overflows. It happens gradually but under his nose.
Empty spaces, woodlands, ponds are wiped out; vast unobstructed patches of sky shrink. They have no apparent value to survival so they must go. Tigers, panthers kill for food, so they must go. Monkeys must go and elephants, boars, bears, birds, lizards and snakes must go.
Human commotion reigns, and everything must be twisted to its convenience. This is the first crack in our relationship with nature because nature allows for only so much comfort, only so much saftey to every being - no less, no more.
...A terrific thunderbolt, shrill bird call, the nightly howls, some hissing in the grass, the unlit, bumpy paths, the chilling silence - these countless dangers embolden man's heart, cheer up his spirits. More he dances on nature's tunes without neutralising any of its dangers the more watchfully, simply, gracefully he can live and die.
We never understand, notice the energy of human crowd, partly because all of us form a part of it and think ourselves unsuitable to question the whole. The energy of crowd is full of desperation, wayward motives, strife, noise, compromise, unholiness.
'How are we to offer what we have to a few people and deny the same to others!' we think. But mere notion of 'equality' based in guilt, comparison or wanting to be virtuous does not exist in nature because nature must care for entire existence, it cannot afford to be shortsighted or sentimental - it is not a person after all. Nature rightly, actually is egalitarian.
He never meditates = he never watches.
He never considers what happens when he populates beyond what a space can take. Man is busy dreaming, establishing, expanding - for various noble or ignoble purposes.
And his population swells, overflows. It happens gradually but under his nose.
Empty spaces, woodlands, ponds are wiped out; vast unobstructed patches of sky shrink. They have no apparent value to survival so they must go. Tigers, panthers kill for food, so they must go. Monkeys must go and elephants, boars, bears, birds, lizards and snakes must go.
Human commotion reigns, and everything must be twisted to its convenience. This is the first crack in our relationship with nature because nature allows for only so much comfort, only so much saftey to every being - no less, no more.
...A terrific thunderbolt, shrill bird call, the nightly howls, some hissing in the grass, the unlit, bumpy paths, the chilling silence - these countless dangers embolden man's heart, cheer up his spirits. More he dances on nature's tunes without neutralising any of its dangers the more watchfully, simply, gracefully he can live and die.
We never understand, notice the energy of human crowd, partly because all of us form a part of it and think ourselves unsuitable to question the whole. The energy of crowd is full of desperation, wayward motives, strife, noise, compromise, unholiness.
'How are we to offer what we have to a few people and deny the same to others!' we think. But mere notion of 'equality' based in guilt, comparison or wanting to be virtuous does not exist in nature because nature must care for entire existence, it cannot afford to be shortsighted or sentimental - it is not a person after all. Nature rightly, actually is egalitarian.
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