Calendar January 2016

I had just got off a train at Pontypridd. I walked outside the station, sat on a bench and was adjusting my camera. Nobody was on the bench and then when I looked up someone else was sitting at the other end. This is the image.

First the bench was vacant and then it wasn't. The sitter had become part of the bench and the bench was a part of him. I do not know what is waiting, the sitter for the bench to appear or the bench for the sitter to appear. There is nothing to do other than wait and waiting is the activity of the bench and the person who is about to sit, they form waiting. When you bring them together, the sitter and bench, you get sitting. The sentient and insentient are formed completely in which nothing could be added and nothing taken away.

Waiting
The wooden seat
Absorbs another sitter

How wonderful it is to wait for nothing and just to be there allowing sitting to arise. Just like a meditator on a cushion, the sentient and the insentient in harmony.

As Nagarjuna says "Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves."