Posted by Emese Stewart on December 06, 2005 at 09:55:13:
In Reply to: Re: Jamie, Please do answer: What color is the pace and essence of a bubbling wellspring, but not a babbling brook?! posted by Jamie Champion on November 28, 2005 at 11:53:33:
Thank you Jamie, what you say makes sense and yet opens more questions on detail.
Jamie, you say: "Normally, we associate the bubbling of water to be represented by the color Silver. Silver consciousness supports health (located at the sacrum) and spinal alignment. Health in all forms - exercise, diet, lifestle and yes the all important laughter."
I would love to really understand this wellspring question that has come to me as a koan from the blessed ethers wispered to my ears.
It is clear to me that the koan is specific to the bubbling of a wellspring... not just bubbling water, but specifically a spring from the earth from a well of natural life giving water that one might, if they are fortunate, to stumble accross in their journey in the woods perhaps. There is a gurgling, bubbling sound and a gentle but wonderful force underneath that wells up with what sounds like laughter, like water actually laughing but not laughing at anything, simply speaking to me and showing me and I feel that it is the laughter of life itself through the water welling up and it is like the giggling of the stomach when I laugh and yet it makes sense and does feel that it is deeper than that... that the laughter is coming from a deep constant place that has seemingly endless continual laughter and that wisdom can be heard between the lines, between the bubbling that there is much more to be found... much more being offered. (so not like a more superficial bubbling of say: carbonated water... that too is laughing yet an entirely different type of laughter; however, that is not the place or pace the koan brings me to, it is rather an actual natural well that springs forth that brings this energy and constancy of laughter through these new days).
To distill the question as best as I can:
So when you say "we associate the bubbling of water to be represented by the color silver" are you saying it is any kind of bubbling water including a wellspring in nature while also including spritzer carbonated water bubbling and everything bubbling in between? Are they all alluding to silver pace laughter?
Because if so then I need to dig further, as I am being braught specifically to a wellspring, specifically to find the laughter of life itself laughing continually on for no reason beyond the sheer joy of continually bubbling up from underneath and finding the culmination point where water wells forth to its final "climax" of welling forth from the rock into the the quiet air and making sound, sharing laughter with the trees, birds, four leggeds, and sometimes a fortunate two legged, whoever comes near enough to hear and join in with song, feeling, or laughter or however to add to the music or simply to observe and find an answer to a koan, or essense of the bubbling and recieve the gift.
Are they both silver? Or is the wellspring more silver than carbonated water?
As the mediation's question was very specific.
As an asside:
Could you watch the movie "spirited away"? In it there is a river spirit of great wealth later revealed to be like a dragon... it laughs when it is finally clean. That laughter alludes of this depth... and may in fact portray quite right the process of an element clearing and coming into its rightful pace as a metaphor of all and any color finding its health; and certainly water finding its health!
This is a longer conversation perhaps. This laughter keeps visiting, thankfully, for many days since that koan was given and then contemplated overnight and has changed my life for the better... therefore I am deeply interested in more details and thoroughly enjoy being able to find a place to ask such questions. Thank you Jamie for your time and your work and your attention to this question.
EGS