They say that one man came to Hakim Omar Khayyam and said:
“My dearest desire is that you would accept me for training and strengthen in me the truths that I learned from my former teachers and which, in fact, led me to you.
Hakim led this man to the place where the water wheel was spinning. He took a piece of wood, jammed the wheel, and it stopped. Then he said:
— This piece of wood symbolizes your former teachers. The tree can be connected to the water wheel to temporarily stop it, for example when repairs are needed.
For a wheel, the knocking sound as the wedge enters can be a remarkable experience. It may get a taste for the state of stillness as water rushes past it, rather than being in motion itself. Now the wheel, aware that the echo of the impact has died down, can seek a similar experience. But can we agree that what the wheel needs is another block of wood?
Only the observer, dear companion, can see the whole picture. The painting itself can represent anything. Imagination is not vision.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru