When I was walking on the street today, with the symphony of traffic and passerby, something suddenly came upon my mind. Sound is so all pervasive and passive, which, in Chinese expression, could be explicitly translated into “through every hole”, which reminds me of the growth of hair through pores- also unstoppable and could spread out the whole body.
Obviously human only grow hair on certain places, and even we take measures to get rid of extra hairs, but why we would be greedy on our desires. In Buddhism, greedy is one of the reason why we suffer. From money to interrelationships, we felt jealous, envy, ignored, unsatisfied because of the desire that could never be met. When we are saying “it could be better if…”, we are chasing a vision that could never be compromised. More does not necessarily means better. Experiencing the present is the best present I have.
I constructed an image with a human covered in hair, never been shaved. On social media hair is considered to be the symbol of liveliness, however we only felt disgusting seeing the person covered in hair. That’s how the Golden Mean meant to say.