Maternal Shift

Like those old storytellers weaving stories of those long gone days when the sun shone brighter, the grass looked greener and the water happier. A tonal ascent in a certain life. A discovery of that path, that visceral path, that intangible pattern, that randomness...

They spoke in that peculiar language called Viscera. It sounded like the trees laughing. Suffixed with "ha's", following their idols of pataphysics with their twisted yet deconstructionist views of life, their unformulaic ways of being nature itself, being the experience rather than experiencing. Here, Hinterland is born, in irregular numbers, uncertainties and Wabi-Sabi. Zen, too. Slow, still, like that moment by the stream when the cherry-blossom flowered on me and I could almost hear the water dreaming. Hinterland is here, hinterland is you. Hinterland is one, that motherpower absolute, that one truth, that "dharma".

In that stillness there is that point in time when nothing is heard. Nor is anything said. Everything is understood. Everything is simply everything. No labels, no you's, no me's. Just that simple nothingness that no one makes a fuss about. Its now time to be. Just be the experience of nothingness, that zeropower. That is hinterland. This is hinterland, too.

The grass that day made me cry. I felt the earth's heartbeat next to mine. I lost the I-carapace completely. The concept of time disappeared. A maternal shift happened, that nature thing you know? And when those falsetto's echoed in the wilderness, I sensed transcendence swooping downwards like the Mother of God, at that moment deep into the night when all life somehow seemed asleep and unconscious.


* Wabi-Sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The phrase comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete". It is a concept derived from the Buddhist assertion of the Three marks of existence, specifically impermanence.