Photo by Mat Reding on Unsplash
Prompts = Empty, Commune, Ladder
My Sensei suggested that I “contemplate Yin”. Not knowing what that meant, he clarified with “studying emptiness”. Still not getting it, he had me commune with an empty bucket. So I sat looking at one for five minutes.
At my next lesson, he asked, “Why is it useful?”
“Because it has sides?”
“Partly. Look again.”
Take two is when I remembered he wanted me to look at an “empty bucket”. It’s the lack of stuff in it that makes it useful. I couldn’t wait to tell him.
When I did, he smiled, then said, “Now, focus on an unladen ladder.”
Links to other sites where I publish:
Instagram = https://www.instagram.com/one_hundred_words_by_parz
Facebook = https://www.facebook.com/Parzival-Sattva-427507144484255
Blogger = https://onehundredwordsbyparz.blogspot.com
Medium = https://medium.com/100-word-or-less-stories
YouTube = https://www.youtube.com/user/parzivalsattva
And a link to where my Lovely Lady Love (who also operates the camera) posts her art: https://www.youtube.com/user/recyclinggoddess
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