Perspectives

What are perspectives?

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Zen Keys

Thich Nhat Hanh, Philip Kapleau

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ISBN: 03854-75611

What is a tree?

• A philosopher might call it ultimate truth.
  
• A botanist, a living organism.
  
• A physicist, a mass of protons and neutrons swirling around a nucleus.
  
• An artist, a unique shape with distinctive colouring.
  
• A carpenter, a potential table.
  
• To a dog, however, it is nothing but a urinal.
  

All descriptions, explanations or analyses are but a looking from one side at that which has infinite dimensions. The true nature of the tree is more than anything that can be said about it.