10/13/2005
Musings on an autumn day
The sun hides, but it is a soft and mellow day, the colours of the autumn are just amazing. When in Amsterdam jogging in the park nearby I enjoyed the autumn for its colours, but here where I can see so much clearer, it’s a glory. No wind, a country just in stillness. As still and calm as my heart, that beats for the world and has space at last for love and live. Namo Amida Bu.
In Dutch, mood (= stemming) and destination (= bestemming) are almost the same word.
A nice metonym, two words in one context of coming home, of arriving, of catching up.
Most of my days are so full of simple and concrete space of being with everything that is around me that the Nembutsu gets a new significance: it’s the word in which one’s faith can find it’s home. It’s more than one’s singular heart alone. It’s the home of the paradoxical fullness of one’s life. It’s a spatial dimension, the empty openness that is the condition for the possibility to live one’s live to the full. The only thing one has to do is to step outside in the stillness of the autumn air. Just to look around, almost without any intention of understanding. That can make oneself just to a point of reception. A point in which the whole of nature is flowing together and resonates, with colour and sound of the living world.
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