Ordinary men hate solitude.
But the sage makes use of it,
embracing his aloneness, realizing
he is at one with the whole universe.
The sage is a loner. He avoids unnecessary contact with people. He does not feel at home with small talk. He abhors gossip. He avoids talking too much. Most people would probably find his company dull. Not that he would mind, for he is indifferent to his own popularity.
The sage is timeless. He lives outside the collective paradigms and ideologies controlling and manipulating society at any given time. He seems immune to even the subtlest efforts of indoctrination or manipulation.
He moves in society without being immersed in it. He stands aloof from the conceptually fashionable. He does not become part of socially acceptable prejudices. He refuses to participate in the pretentious verbal exhibition of the latest in intellectual chic.
Historic paradigm shifts do not unsettle him. He knows that everything changes and yet nothing changes. His perspective is timeless, vaster than any scientific dimension. For this reason the sage remains calm in times of upheaval. Even when humanity is losing its faith in whatever it has lately invested its faith, the Taoist sage remains unperturbed. He does not invest his faith in man-made concepts and therefore has no faith to lose.
The sage lives outside the dictatorial reach of the “group mind,” untouched by the mindless Zeitgeist of his era, and he therefore has little part in the collective guilt of the society of his day. But he will try to live on the periphery of human folly as unobtrusively as possible. Only when he is left with no other choice, will he actively oppose the predominant delusions of his day, and he will do so courageously, suffering any resulting persecution with quiet dignity.
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A remote cottage in the midst of jungles of northern Iran…
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I ran over almost all your blog. I like colors and this is one of the best photos i have ever seen!
Hey ……………, I think i love HDR!
@sanaz: Oh… Thank you… Thank you… well yes… I love this one very much too… and yes… HDR… is the technique that… well… without it… nothing could’ve been the same… thanks again… it’s so nice that u come and visit my place here… Take Care…
@Framed and Shot: Thanks yeah I like this one too very much… yeah I’m also really in love with HDRs… I just can’t get tired on them… I’m happy that u liked this too… thanks…
@Kourosh Rad: Thanks… yeah it was a beautiful scene… and this photo I think at least delivers a little bit of that moment here… u have to see how it looks as a large print…
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The Outsider
Ordinary men hate solitude.
But the sage makes use of it,
embracing his aloneness, realizing
he is at one with the whole universe.
The sage is a loner. He avoids unnecessary contact with people. He does not feel at home with small talk. He abhors gossip. He avoids talking too much. Most people would probably find his company dull. Not that he would mind, for he is indifferent to his own popularity.
The sage is timeless. He lives outside the collective paradigms and ideologies controlling and manipulating society at any given time. He seems immune to even the subtlest efforts of indoctrination or manipulation.
He moves in society without being immersed in it. He stands aloof from the conceptually fashionable. He does not become part of socially acceptable prejudices. He refuses to participate in the pretentious verbal exhibition of the latest in intellectual chic.
Historic paradigm shifts do not unsettle him. He knows that everything changes and yet nothing changes. His perspective is timeless, vaster than any scientific dimension. For this reason the sage remains calm in times of upheaval. Even when humanity is losing its faith in whatever it has lately invested its faith, the Taoist sage remains unperturbed. He does not invest his faith in man-made concepts and therefore has no faith to lose.
The sage lives outside the dictatorial reach of the “group mind,” untouched by the mindless Zeitgeist of his era, and he therefore has little part in the collective guilt of the society of his day. But he will try to live on the periphery of human folly as unobtrusively as possible. Only when he is left with no other choice, will he actively oppose the predominant delusions of his day, and he will do so courageously, suffering any resulting persecution with quiet dignity.
———
A remote cottage in the midst of jungles of northern Iran…
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8 Comments
I ran over almost all your blog. I like colors and this is one of the best photos i have ever seen!
Hey ……………, I think i love HDR!
Comment by sanaz — February 5, 2009 @ 2:29 am
@sanaz: Oh… Thank you… Thank you…
well yes… I love this one very much too… 
and yes… HDR… 
is the technique that… well… 
without it… nothing could’ve been the same… 
thanks again… it’s so nice that u come and visit my place here… Take Care… 
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — February 5, 2009 @ 10:45 am
BRAVOOO! wonderful HDR!
Comment by ida — February 12, 2009 @ 11:25 pm
@ida:
Tanx Tanx yeah… I like this one too… but the photo has some minor deficiencies due to the camera’s lack of technical abilities… 
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — February 13, 2009 @ 12:45 am
Intense HDR feeling!
But since we happen to like HDR quite a lot, We like it!!
Nice work!
Comment by Framed and Shot — February 15, 2009 @ 7:30 am
@Framed and Shot: Thanks yeah I like this one too very much…
yeah I’m also really in love with HDRs… I just can’t get tired on them… I’m happy that u liked this too… thanks…
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — February 15, 2009 @ 12:10 pm
Beautiful shot!
Comment by Kourosh Rad — February 18, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
@Kourosh Rad: Thanks…
yeah it was a beautiful scene… and this photo I think at least delivers a little bit of that moment here… 
u have to see how it looks as a large print… 
Comment by Kaveh Saffari — February 18, 2009 @ 8:01 pm
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