Riding Thermals
Elihu Genmyo Smith
Elihu Genmyo Smith
Our life is this moment ongoing change, neither holding to self
nor other than self. Being this is our practice.
When we are not so then there is stress, dissatisfaction, difficulties and suffering. The following discussion of gliders in The Economist, March 9, 2013, Technology Quarterly, p. 8, is a useful analogy to help us clarify life practice efforts in these circumstances:
When we are not so then there is stress, dissatisfaction, difficulties and suffering. The following discussion of gliders in The Economist, March 9, 2013, Technology Quarterly, p. 8, is a useful analogy to help us clarify life practice efforts in these circumstances:
| "When TALEUS [hand-launched Tactical Long Endurance Unmanned Aerial System]
encounters a thermal it senses the lift and spirals around to take advantage of
it. Vultures and eagles use the same technique, and...[those] in charge of the
project [have] often found TALEUAS sharing the air with these raptors. On some
occasions, the birds found that the thermals they were attempting to join were
too weak for their weight, as the drone is more efficient at gliding than they
are..." |
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Riding Thermals 5/25/13
(c) 2013 Elihu Genmyo Smith
