but, like the Bard, I won't say it signifies nothing!
When the rains burst upon Kinnaur where I was travelling last week, I realised for the first time in my life that in the vast dome of nature, there reigns a sort of controlled violence! There's a domineering fury entirely capable of hurtling all living beings into a common doom. It is as though the decree of violent death is inscribed on the frontiers of life, far away from the cocooned life of a householder.
Interestingly, the fury of the thunder exhausts itself in time and leaves the air calm and utterly serence in its wake. If only human anger could be like that!
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The I Ching, as a model of the universe, suggests that it contains 12.5% negativity or destructive natural energy. That, then, is the proper balance. It seems you saw some of it first hand.
Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.
Hilda Doolittle (1886-1961)
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