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The End, The Beginning : A Silent Post

Posted by lune on November 14, 2009

silent morning

12 Responses to “The End, The Beginning : A Silent Post”

  1. Julian said

    You think you can see where the spiders webs begin and end but you can’t – wow! What is the light within which everything appears?

    • Julian said

      The simplicity of what is.

      • lune said

        I love this photo, I took it very early one morning. An hour after I snapped this, the webs had disappeared. All that work, all the painstaking spinning and weaving, the endless gathering of light into an architect’s inspiration of construction, only to be remade every morning over and over again, like will-’o-the-wisps, catching dew and sunlight in a myriad of subtle ways.

        Life is miraculous.

        And there I was capturing the image on the camera’s screen and here it is being reproduced onto a thousand other screens.

  2. Beautiful spider webs. That which was caught is breathtaking!

  3. msayers said

    Says it all, doesn’t it? We should have everyone’s silent post put in one place. Wouldn’t that be cool?

  4. lune said

    Considering my recurring theme of spider’s webs in my writing, I was really intrigued to find out about Indra’s Web, from Svante Odmark over at Mike’s blog.

    Indra’s net (also called Indra’s jewels or Indra’s pearls) is a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of emptiness, dependent origination, and interpenetration in Buddhist philosophy.

    Buddhist concepts of interpenetration hold that all phenomena are intimately connected; for the Huayan school, Indra’s net symbolizes a universe where infinitely repeated mutual relations exist between all members of the universe. This idea is communicated in the image of the interconnectedness of the universe as seen in the net of the Vedic god Indra, whose net hangs over his palace on Mount Meru, the axis mundi of Vedic cosmology and Vedic mythology. Indra’s net has a multifaceted jewel at each vertex, and each jewel is reflected in all of the other jewels:

    “Imagine a multidimensional spider’s web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image.” –Alan Watts

    thank you Svante and Mike.

  5. tokumei said

    Hi Lune,

    I tagged you here: http://www.japansystems.de/serendipity/index.php?/archives/120-The-End,-The-Beginning-A-Silent-Post.html

    Thanks for you,
    tokumei

  6. Zahir said

    we wove the webs.. and hung by their threads.. we need to break free.. and weep at their tattered state..

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