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A Peaceful Mind

            Is a happy mind.

Pink Peony.

As I wrote the above I was reminded of the oriental story of the traveller who comes across a monk sat upon a rock by the roadside in peaceful meditation. They begin conversing and the traveller asks the monk...

"Can you tell me the difference between heaven and hell?"

"Yes" says the monk, and returns to his meditation.

"Tell me then" says the traveller but the monk remains silent. The traveller keeps repeating "tell me, tell me:, each time becoming angrier and angrier until at last he picks up a rock and yells  -

"Tell me or I will kill you!"

"And there you have it" says the monk "there is the difference".

So a peaceful mind is indeed a happy mind and a mind only becomes peaceful when it is free from desire and aversion and is in full acceptance of what is, and what comes.  A mind forever seeking this or avoiding that is a mind of discontent - self evidently.

What's any of that got to do with this flower you might rightly ask - well, it kind of reminded me of the shape of the brain, which led to mind which led to the title, which in turn led to the anecdote. So, if you got this far - odd how things work out.......

Taken on: June 10, 2023

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Camera: Sony ILCE-7RM5, f/4.0, 1/1250 sec, 90mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCE-7RM5
Lens:	Sony FE 90mm F2.8 OSS
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1250)
Focal Length:	90mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Luminar Neo Extension
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