One Minute Meditation – Point Loma from Coronado
One Minute Meditations is an ongoing series of short videos, poems, and commentary intended as a meditation. Offered as an opportunity to step back from your cyber routine and settle into a more natural rhythm, if only for a minute.
Why is it when NASA looks for life out there in the universe, it looks for water? Here’s an interesting article in the LA Times that explains why.
The question comes to mind as I look through many of my one minute video meditations and see a very clear theme of water. Water has been the subject of many religious metaphors. The most familiar to me are from Taoism:
The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to
– Tao Te Ching: Verse 8
Do you have the patience to wait
till your mud settles and the water is clear?
– Tao Te Ching: Verse 15
The article cites James Garvin, lead scientist for the Mars exploration program as saying “Water is the most eccentric of liquids. “It’s this elusive, magical, mystery molecule”. It describes life as we know it as a scaffolding of carbon floating around in bags of water. No wonder my fascination with H2O, it’s a form of narcissism.
Buddha Amitabha is the Buddha of Endless Life. Life as we know it in our neck of the universe is connected very deeply to water. Seeing beauty and finding peace in water is a beautiful form of worship. When we take refuge in Buddha Amitabha, we are not heaping adoration upon some distant deity, we are acknowledging the sacredness in life. We are finding refuge in the natural rhythm of things, returning to our true nature.
FluidityHappy 2 Open
Seeing the jewels of life
in the ocean’s net
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