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**corkBrobe** · 09-04-2012, 06:32 AM

Thank you for posting that video, its unadorned simplicity says so much. I like the way he uses the example of the cloud. I think there is so much that you can learn just by looking at natural phenomena, like the sky, or water, in their ceaseless movement and transformation, in the way that something like a waterfall has its own pattern, or form, and yet, from moment to moment it is never the same thing, with never the same water or exact shape.

The way we tend to perceive the world, it is like we think we could get hold of our favourite waterfall, for example, and transplant it to our back garden. We misunderstand that a waterfall is a mere pattern embedded among a multitude of patterns, and can never be grasped.

09-04-2012, 06:32 AM	#9
corkBrobe Join Date Dec 2005 Posts 435 Senior Member	Thank you for posting that video, its unadorned simplicity says so much. I like the way he uses the example of the cloud. I think there is so much that you can learn just by looking at natural phenomena, like the sky, or water, in their ceaseless movement and transformation, in the way that something like a waterfall has its own pattern, or form, and yet, from moment to moment it is never the same thing, with never the same water or exact shape. The way we tend to perceive the world, it is like we think we could get hold of our favourite waterfall, for example, and transplant it to our back garden. We misunderstand that a waterfall is a mere pattern embedded among a multitude of patterns, and can never be grasped.
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