05-15-2022, 02:36 PM
'day Servovenford and NightskyeB4Dawn.
Perhaps this may help in understanding.
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The Old Man and the Tree of Life
Where is this tree pray tell? Upon which mystic mountaintop did you glimpse such high heavens of arcane knowledge?
Do not waste your time upon the mountain top. If it is a tree you seek, you will not find it there.
The temple? A shrine? Which one? I must know!
That too is a waste of time young man if you truly want to know.
Who has this knowledge? Where are they to be found?
My advice to you young man is to go home and marry your girl. On your wedding night; you will find your tree.
You are mad old man! Nothing do you know!
The young man stomps off in disgust and joins a monastery in the hope that suffering and abstinence will show him the way. The old man simply smiled and went home to his family and evening meal. Some time later the two meet again.
Tell me old man! Where can I find this tree!
The old man thought for a moment.
'Twas the fairy folk who showed me this. . . . .
The fruit of a tree of life . . . .
is hidden . . . .
behind the veil . . . .
of a maiden's skirt.
A maiden's womb is simply the fruit of a tree.
If you want to know the secrets of life young man, go home and marry your girl.
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Of course, there is a fourth treasure to be found . . .
Perhaps this may help in understanding.
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The Old Man and the Tree of Life
Where is this tree pray tell? Upon which mystic mountaintop did you glimpse such high heavens of arcane knowledge?
Do not waste your time upon the mountain top. If it is a tree you seek, you will not find it there.
The temple? A shrine? Which one? I must know!
That too is a waste of time young man if you truly want to know.
Who has this knowledge? Where are they to be found?
My advice to you young man is to go home and marry your girl. On your wedding night; you will find your tree.
You are mad old man! Nothing do you know!
The young man stomps off in disgust and joins a monastery in the hope that suffering and abstinence will show him the way. The old man simply smiled and went home to his family and evening meal. Some time later the two meet again.
Tell me old man! Where can I find this tree!
The old man thought for a moment.
'Twas the fairy folk who showed me this. . . . .
The fruit of a tree of life . . . .
is hidden . . . .
behind the veil . . . .
of a maiden's skirt.
A maiden's womb is simply the fruit of a tree.
If you want to know the secrets of life young man, go home and marry your girl.
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Of course, there is a fourth treasure to be found . . .