30 Jun 04
Originally posted by fjordI heard a radio interview a while back, it was a mountaineer who'd been asked why he'd climbed a certain mountain (maybe everest or some other huge rock), his reply was ".....just to realize, that I DIDN'T have to".
Is there a difference between the road and the goal?
Fjord
What was the reason he decided to climb this mountain in the first place?
Obviously he wanted to, agreed?
But, was the point just to "get to the top"?
Or is it the actual "climbing" part that was the goal?
The point is the "doing" of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; no experiencer but the experience.
30 Jun 04
Originally posted by WHY AYEThanks for your inspiring post 🙂
I heard a radio interview a while back, it was a mountaineer who'd been asked why he'd climbed a certain mountain (maybe everest or some other huge rock), his reply was ".....just to realize, that I DIDN'T have to".
What was the reason he decided to climb this mountain in the first place?
Obviously he wanted to, agreed?
But, was the point just to ...[text shortened]... complishments. There is no actor but the action; no experiencer but the experience.
I live in a flat land, so it always an enormous experience to see mountains on my travels. And always there is that hungry feeling to go to the top (Not anything like Mt Everest). It is great to feel how it all shifts while you are climbing. You indeed become the climbing and not the top searcher. The funny thing is that the top is most of the time bare and lonesome. What makes you look with love down to the valleys.
BTW there is a very nice book on this theme: "The snow-leopard" by Peter Matthiessen. It is a zenlike report of the mountain climb of two friends in the Himalayas.
Fjord