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The Implications of Landscape as an Object of Meditation

Whatever you believe is neither real nor true. It may be momentarily useful, like a match, but should be discarded after use.

All else is ignorant inference, no matter how much ego gratification or material gain you get from others who share your belief or whom you convince, one way or another, to share it.

The way out, beyond language, beyond symbol, becomes visible when you finally hush (or ignore) the incessantly chattering monkey within and begin to consider the vanishing point at the end of every landscape.

For more in a similar vein,
see Aldous Huxley's Island.

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