Denser regions of the pillars are shadowing material beneath them from the powerful radiation. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. The pillars are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. The new image was taken with Hubble's versatile and sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3. The dark, finger-like feature at bottom right may be a smaller version of the giant pillars. The towering pillars are about 5 light-years tall. Astronomers combined several Hubble exposures to assemble the wider view. It is for this purpose that we were born.NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image. When we cause our life force to well forth, to surge up like a spring, that time and that place becomes a paradise-a garden of enjoyment! When our life force is strong, this world becomes a place to "enjoy ourselves at ease." We can pull this power from the "emerald sea" that exists inside our hearts. So even when suffering approaches, let us ride it like a surfer does a wave and enjoy surmounting it! The sutra also refers to a bodhisattva who enjoys " about among the lands saving living beings."įrom among all the worlds that fill this vast universe, we have chosen and come to this Earth to create happiness. Here the Lotus Sutra tells us that people appear in this world to enjoy themselves. There is even a figure in the sutra named Bodhisattva Lion Frolic World.Īnd the sutra speaks of the "sport carried out by the thus come one's transcendental powers," as well as the world being a place "where living beings enjoy themselves at ease." Still elsewhere, it says, "It will allow them day and night for unnumbered kalpas to find constant enjoyment." It also reads, "mounting the jeweled carriages, driving off in all directions, delighting and amusing themselves." Words suggesting play or enjoyment appear in many places throughout the Lotus Sutra.įor example, in one place it reads, "He will stroll about without fear like the lion king." To break away from a state of being bound by a quest for material things and freely create something-this is culture. To make friends-this too, is creation, as is fostering capable people! The joy of creation! This is the triumphant cry of life itself!ĭutch historian Johan Huizinga refers to the human being as " Homo Ludens"-one who plays-and suggests that culture is born of play. To give birth is a joy! To create is a joy! To encourage people is to create. The Earth calls out to us: "People! Be beautiful, be strong, like me! Give birth! Bring into existence things of value! Be generous! Don't hold back! Create! Create something wonderful!" The waves, the clouds, are great artists. If only one has the heart to perceive it, this world is filled with beauty. A strong fragrance wafts through the dry air. The intense sunlight of an endless summer beats upon my arms as I hold my camera. Everything created by nature, including the human being, is a masterpiece. This galloping horse, too, was created from the universal elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Void. Human beings are works of art created by the universe from the same material as the stars. In the moment something unseen becomes something seen, we discover the mystery of the creative force. It ceased to be simply a substance, but took on the form of a beautiful white horse. Once touched by creative hands, sand was no longer just sand. Had the white horse been buried deep in the sand? Or had it been hidden deep in the artist's heart? I bow with respect and appreciation to the nameless beach artist who created it. Who sculpted it? It seems as if it would gallop gracefully away at any moment. There, from the sand, emerges the figure of a white horse. My eyes are drawn and riveted to a particular spot on the beach. Looking toward this paradise of the Pacific, people come here from the East and West, gather and become friends. Others lounging in the shadows of palm fronds. People in brightly colored swimsuits running on the hot sand. As always, the beach at Waikiki is lively and bustling. Opening the window, the scent of the sea breezes in.
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