365 Tao: Daily Meditation INSIGNIFICANCE frank4zen 0 comments

26 May 2010 @ 12:41 Spasms of molten rock Piled a cone three miles high. Rain and wind split a hundred towering fingers. In time, trees strove for leverage in the fissures. After a million years, condors and snakes took up residence. Mighty rock, carved walls adorned with Chartreuse and vermilion lichen -- Man yet more puny on those stones. How long will it take to see Tao? Until you no longer hold self-importance. Compared to the massive movements of heaven and earth, compared to the immensity of geologic time, the greatest acts of humanity and their monuments are beneath significance. We climb the highest mountains, we dive to the depths of the sea, we fling ourselves as close to the sun as we dare, and we are not even on the scale of nature's measure. In our egotism and our view of ourselves as the center of the universe, we imagine that our lives have some meaning and importance when placed beside the stars and mountains and rivers. They do not. We cannot hope to have any true meaning in the history of the universe. But we can know it better, we can be a better part of it. If you want to know the force that keeps the sky blue, the stars burning, the mountains high and still, the rivers running, and the oceans flowing, then remove the veil that stands between you and Tao. 365 Tao: Daily Meditations Deng Ming-Dao

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