A really useful concept or thoughtful question doesn't just sit there.
It lands!
And it doesn't just land. It touches down in your consciousness and ripples out. Circles echoing circles. Reverberating.
It sets off a chain of spiraling cycles that move outward and downward simultaneously.
What started as a stone is not just stone. Skipping out over the water, it has now become a new thing that is STONE - MEETING - WATER.
No longer an object but an encounter. Maybe even a relationship. Patterns and circles. Centre and periphery.
As each question, stone skips its way through the water, the ever-widening circles takes me places.
I find the connections.....the self-similarity.
I can feel into the stretch of continuity between past, hurting me and where I am now, and then slightly future me who is waiting, arm stretched out, full of love.
The information accessed through stone-skipping is not the stuff you know from the surface. It has a different tone, a different vibration. It has different elements too. Water and stone.
You can use anything as a stone.
A word, a quality, a mantra, a question, a thought, a rhythm, a colour, a pattern, a shape.
"My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water".
~~ Mark Twain
Above photo taken at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney, Nov 2011 - Artist Keizo Ushio from Japan called it "Moebius in Space Planet" .
His statement - "The human being sometimes realises that we are one of the parts of nature"
