"If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are."
- Zen Proverb
In the beginning, there was a story. And then
the world happened.
The Zen proverb quoted above says that whatever
happens, things are going to be well. Because it is not about things at all, it
is all about stories. It is people who make stories.
There is a story about eagles who must undergo
a tortuous transformation by rejecting their old beaks, claws, and feathers
when they are forty years old in order to survive and live for the next thirty
years. Only those eagles who succeed in replacing their old "parts"
within five months have the chance to live a new life.
This legend has no basis in the eagles' real lives, but it is still a beautiful metaphor about the importance of change. It is talking about how, often, in order to survive, we must begin the process of change. Sometimes old thoughts, habits, and other reminders of the past have to be put aside. We can only use the present time to set ourselves free from past bad experiences and memories. It is a story of rebirth at the time when it seems that the burden of the past is too big for us and that it is dragging us to our death. It is not the only such story. In the cultural repository of humankind, there are many similar stories, myths, and legends.
It continues....
Read the whole text in the published Book 1 "Fundamental Dilemma: To Have or To Be" of books serial "Walks in the Mind".
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