“Taoists
speak of the Universe as wan wu, the “ten thousand things,” – this does not
imply that it is simply a sum of separate objects. Things (wu) are not so much
entities as differentiations or forms in the unified field of the Tao. This follows necessarily from the principle
of mutual arising.” Alan Watts
Demeter, Persephone, and Baubo could have
crept into Mrs. Scattergood’s life when she wasn’t looking. Or they were always there and it was a very
long hello before she actually got to know them. Decades. Mrs. Scattergood liked to think she carried
the sea in her, as did Demeter and Persephone. We all carry the sea and the sea
carries us. Mrs. Scattergood searched
for her mother and learned how she belonged to the world completely, how she is
loved and a part of the air, the seasons, the soup, her friends, memories, the
cicadas in the evening, the wind in the trees and her parcel of land. As did Demeter and Persephone.
~
Mrs. Scattergood knows that she was
looking for someone and at other times for a way of being in the world she was
separated from. Baubo came to remind her
that we are all connected and the idea that we were ever alone or not a part of
the weave was a bad dream.
raga or the 10,000 things (6), they will find each other by freda karpf
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