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is there already a thread like this?
I was talking with my dad earlier and started wording something I thought was a nice epilepsy koan or something - and I thought it could make a serious/humorous thread:
Life is observation of and reflections from a calm pond. The mind is the water of the calm pond.
A seizure is a boulder of interruption and corruption thrown into the calm.
Recovery from the seizure is the same as the way one calms the pond: by waiting. How long the wait is necessary indicates the depth of the mind, and severity of the seizure. The clamor of the seizure recovery is like trying to observe the water's reflective surface as it was, through the waves in its surface from the boulder's collision.
On the most minute scale the waters will never return to the same original stillness of mind, as the waves will reverberate through its depth. The pond also never returns to the same depth, as the mind now must wrap itself around the conundrum, just as the water wraps itself around the boulder. But the water itself loses no volume.
Wait, stay calm, envelop, accept, reflect.
I was talking with my dad earlier and started wording something I thought was a nice epilepsy koan or something - and I thought it could make a serious/humorous thread:
Life is observation of and reflections from a calm pond. The mind is the water of the calm pond.
A seizure is a boulder of interruption and corruption thrown into the calm.
Recovery from the seizure is the same as the way one calms the pond: by waiting. How long the wait is necessary indicates the depth of the mind, and severity of the seizure. The clamor of the seizure recovery is like trying to observe the water's reflective surface as it was, through the waves in its surface from the boulder's collision.
On the most minute scale the waters will never return to the same original stillness of mind, as the waves will reverberate through its depth. The pond also never returns to the same depth, as the mind now must wrap itself around the conundrum, just as the water wraps itself around the boulder. But the water itself loses no volume.
Wait, stay calm, envelop, accept, reflect.