Thich Nhat Hanh wrote, “‘Looking deeply’ means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears. The result is insight into the true nature of the object. When we look into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and there would be no flower. Without time, the flower could not bloom. In fact, the flower is made entirely of non-flower elements; it has no independent, individual existence. It “inter-is” with everything else in the universe.” …INTERBEING
This “looking deeply” implies “being with” — looking beyond our “ordinary” views.
(click photograph for larger view)
an attempt at visualizing interbeing
compared to our “ordinary” isolated view
Leica R8/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit
