Yesterday I wrote about ripples on the surface of water and how they emerge from the turbulence which appears as flow meets resistance, and how that resistance is an integral part of the flow itself.
When we look at water we see change happening right before our eyes so it’s easy to be aware of flow and turbulence. But what you see here in this photo looks like a very similar pattern. Very similar because these are very similar processes – the result of the interaction between flow and resistance.
Flow, change, and the emergence of patterns all occur much more slowly in stone than they do in water….but it’s just the timescale which is different.
This is one of my favourite stones because as well as revealing the underlying principles of flow and resistance, it focuses my mind on how massively interconnected the universe is. It boggles my mind to think of the individual atoms produced in the furnaces of distant stars which ended up on our little planet and combined to make this particular stone.
It also reminds me of the ridiculous over simplicity at the heart of understanding our world as made up of separate objects each the result of a single chain of cause and effect.
Reality isn’t like that.
Instead we see and experience events which emerge from the vastly interconnected web of all that is. The connections are non linear. The system is open, not closed. So there are no utterly separate objects and there is no simple chain of cause and effect.
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