Beautiful

02005-03-25 | Uncategorized | 3 comments

Music: Drawn from Life – Brian Eno

This age, known as Very Beautiful, Very Beautiful, lasted 400 trillion oceans of years, and gave way to that known as Very Beautiful, which – as the name suggests – was exactly half as fortunate as the former. The wish-fulfilling trees, the earth, and the waters were only half as bountiful as before. Men and women were only four miles tall, had only 128 ribs, lived for only two periods of countless years, and passed to the world of the gods when their twins were only 64 days old. This period lasted 300 trillion oceans of years, declining gradually but inevitably to the stage called Sorrowfully Very Beautiful, when joy became mixed with grief.
– Jainist story of origins, sixth century BCE”
(Via Caterina.net)

3 Comments

  1. Eno

    Beautiful…Very Beautiful!

    Reply
  2. Panj

    …having often wondered what this age would be called, it was wonderful to find this…and how perfect for this day!

    Reply

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