> > That whole chloropyll rigamarol is not why grass green. > > It is green because it’s green. > > Is it?
Is it inherently green? What is green? When you bathe who gets to be wet? You or the water? > > > Young children will understand that answer because it’s the simple truth. > > Does anyone truly know why grass is green? > I do Grass is green because we say so Grass is only green in language Grass isn't green for itself > The sunlight/chlorophyll explanation is how the grass is green. > Is it :) > > My neurologists spent days believing they were trying to figure out why the > first of my strokes occurred when in truth they were searching for the > causes of how it occurred. > > Do any of us truly know why we had our brain injuries? > Chance? > > Sure we know how and many of us love to share our stories of that event > repeatedly in great ‘how by how’ detail of how the event happened, but it > certainly is not why. > > Why did we get stroked? Why did the accident happen? Why did the scalpel > cut the wrong thing during the operation? > > Who knows? > > The more we stop believing the how is the why, the easier it is to accept > what is and move on just as this little girl did when she went back to lady > bug searching. > > Think how glassy eyed and flummoxed she would have been had I gone through > the whole routine of blood clots, artery blockages and brain bleeds that > would have in no way explained why I got stroked. > > > > The incident did get me thinking that all the why questions of a child are > a young soul’s first steps on it’s life quest for meaning in life .......and > we adults blunderingly muddy up the waters with answers of how life happens > ... > > ...and thus misguidedly teach them that how their lives happen is why their > lives happen. > Fabulous points and my intention is to add to them In a nutshell, language and the insufficiency of language (its over simplicity) is part of the problem Let's look at green again Why is the grass green? I say it is not It has been categorised as falling into a narrow spectrum of light and languaged into green by us My car is green What do my car and the grass have in common? Numbers are even more fun I think it is the giving of abstract qualities to the universe that makes the simplicity of it seem so confusing Then we simply can't see what is any more Trees are amazing when they are not just trees Here is an exercise Take any object and allow yourself for a moment not to know what it is Genuinely be in the enquiry Without using any language look at something and wonder at it Have you noticed the world is in 3D today? I love moving my head and watching the relationships between objects shift in space If you took a whole day to walk across a room?
