The Chinese Gardens of Serenity. They are not far from Malta's airport.
The road construction machine beats the ground heavily. It is challenging to cut it out of mind, walking through the gate. But, slowly, we forget the noise. We are alone, walking the alleys.
Oriental gardens are a dynamic balance of empty and full. European gardens, in contrast, are magnificent mathematical geometry made of measure, color, volumes, and masses. Perfectly expressing controlled power on Nature. Oriental gardens are evermoving mathematics. Nothing is fixed, not even some apparently symmetrical elements. Those, instead, serve the task to enhance the fortuity that permeates Universe. Present in every part: stones, plants, waters.... I gaze at the mutating landscape at every taken step, while the point of view and the self-revealing of new details transforms the space, happening with my movement – inside and outside of me. I couldn't define a view. I close my eyes to pin an impossible instant.
When I open them, I can finally see it! The truth of Universe: atoms, particles, and waves evertransforming, around and through me in dancing disfinite combinations. Me, as a part of that whole. So, this is how Creation actually is! Frequencies of vibrating particles of the same few elements, choreographing to shape a myriad of different matter manifestations, and living beings. The connections make all this possible, and our mind transduces all the dance into meaningful symbols.
I hear the beating of the thumper on the road outside again, suddenly. A few steps away. The magic lasted just a pure moment.
What is time?
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