It flows people gape but do not see it flows they rather postulate and grasp at comfort-ideas and doctrine and theology and build systems of beliefs and fantasize in the hereafter But it flows not with a beginning or end or with a start or finish with promise or tension but of its own nature disinterested in its essence and expressing itself as it glows it flows in the mountains and the falls and in the rocks and in the leaves and in the air it flows and in the beholder too in intelligence and consciousness so that the beholder and subject are one It flows
poem based on painting “White mangrove” by Hashimoto Gahō (August 21, 1835 - January 13, 1908)