Everything around us appears to move when we walk.
It’s not an illusion!
Our bodies are carrying our brains around – and our brains are carrying our minds around.
But mind is neither brain nor body. Mind has the privileged perspective known (in physics) as inertia.
Enlightenment is watching the next mountain over moving itself, from left to right to left again, while we hike toward it upon a curvy path.
Yet, on the other hand…
We scurry about, not like animals, on pathways from landmark to landmark, but from landscape to landscape. There are simply too many landmarks and pathways for us to have any kind of enlightenment.
We, instead, have discovered the ideas of linear time and progress. We console ourselves by moving our minds out of the present and wholly into past or future. The only present we know is sensual, material, addictive materialism.
Now, take a tree. It has wisdom and enlightenment. It is in the present. The landscapes and the beings that come and go around it over the years, the centuries, even the millennia, are all part of its present moment. A tree has presence.
We do not.