One Comes To This Place: Inspired By Mt Fuji From Umezawa By Hokusai Katsushika Poem by Raj Arumugam

…one comes to this place, to this view, at this scene quite abruptly…a long walk, a leisurely walk, yet almost breathless…one arrive s and one gazes at what nature offers, at what nature presents before one…no, just what nature is on its own…
lonely, away from the world
one thought to venture further
and walked an uncommon path…
and breathless one comes to this scene…and just sees what is before one…it is not arranged or planned or ordered – but one just meets the clouds and the cold and the birds, and Mount Fuji…one meets without greetings or formalities; one is ignored and one is nothing here but another creature…
nature a geisha
who smiles and plays
and awakens one’s senses…
and one stands before the birds, and the fog and the fields and one’s self disappears…one’s self is meaningless here…one’s self is insignificant here…there is just what is here and one’s identity disappears…and one’s concerns disappear…perhaps here one sees what one is before one’s descent into the everyday world…here you don’t talk about your philosophies and you don’t bring in your religions and your atheism and your ideas; they are insignificant here; here you don’t bring in your quarrels and your victories and your memories: how wrong others are; how right you are….the clouds spit at your thoughts…here you are nothing…at this scene your are just a part of the scene……
an original self
not defined, not conditioned
but corrupt by one’s world…
but here like a stork, like a bird, like the cloud, mind clear and mind empty – unlearning in an instant – unconditioned in an instant – seeing the clarity beyond the concerns and needs and wants and aggressions and self-importance…nothing matters now…one sees….there is no one within…no self housed in this shell…just forces that come and interact in a world that loves the play and the illusion…
without self
without conditioning
all agitated forces stilled…
and one sees it all in this abrupt and unexpected meeting …and geisha nature says:
we have loved freely
without formalities
without rigidity of spouses
and in this illicit love one sees what it is to be free….go; it is time…one must return; one turns and one walks back…to corruption…and the conventions of the self that is in constant activity….but to this scene, this place, this freedom one may return again…the geisha will wait patiently…and here is true freedom…beyond all mental formations and beyond one’s conditioning…go in peace…