The Running Scriptures - Beauty (6)

"The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains;

"The white clouds are of themselves white clouds."

                                                                    -Zenrin Kushû (The Way of Zen 134, 222)

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Only steps taken.

Yet the beauty that unfolds....

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We are merely runners - a gatherer of steps with distance as

a goal. Our meaning is provided not by what we do but

in the quality of our actions. A step taken depends on

the earth to meet its fall. We are inter-dependent

with our surroundings.

The truth is there is no runner - only motion and

the object of its caress.

And truer still...in the moment of this

meeting - only the touch exists.

Peace,

Eric