{"id":1668,"date":"2010-05-21T23:39:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T02:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linaru.com\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:06:27","slug":"land-of-contradictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linaru.com\/en\/land-of-contradictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of Contradictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"grid kcm\">\n<div class=\"grid__item one-whole portable--auto lap--auto palm--auto\">\n<pre>                    In this land\r\n                    of contradictions,\r\n                    some trees blossom,\r\n                    others are evergreen,\r\n                    such as a circle\r\n                    hidden inside\r\n                    a square,\r\n                    a triangle inside\r\n                    itself,\r\n                    or Escher\r\n                    fiddling with Bach\r\n                    to make the Earth\r\n                    giggle in their bubbles\r\n                    of math.\r\n\r\n                                                    In this changing land\r\n                                                    of contradictory paths,\r\n                                                    one must ask\r\n                                                    where are the limits\r\n                                                    of these tracks,\r\n                                                    who is the ruler\r\n                                                    of these lands?\r\n\r\nI gaze in amazement\r\nas I laugh,\r\nland of contradictions,\r\nI am.\r\n\r\n                                                    Neither\r\n                                                    good or bad,\r\n                                                    glad or sad,\r\n                                                    mad or fad,\r\n                                                    where am I?\r\n\r\nIn the land\r\nof my future,\r\nI ask,\r\nand I only see\r\nI imagine that.\r\n\r\n                                                    In the land\r\n                                                    of my past,\r\n                                                    I ask,\r\n                                                    and I only remember\r\n                                                    I had that.\r\n\r\nIn such contradiction\r\nI had to ask,\r\nis my solution\r\njust an empty sack?\r\n\r\n                                                    I sat\r\n                                                    and waited\r\n                                                    for an answer,\r\n                                                    and all I got\r\n                                                    was a trap,\r\n                                                    another\r\n                                                    contradiction,\r\n                                                    so I had to laugh.\r\n\r\nWaiting for an illusion?\r\nWhat a blast!\r\n\r\n                                                    I yelled at Escher,\r\n                                                    and made him mad.\r\n                                                    \r\n                                                    He called G&ouml;del\r\n                                                    to make me look bad.\r\n\r\nSo, I played with Bach\r\nuntil they had\r\ntheir wanted match.\r\n\r\n                                                    I dropped my bag,\r\n                                                    and again, I sat\r\n                                                    not expecting\r\n                                                    to get my sack back\r\n                                                    I emptied my mind\r\n                                                    of so many\r\n                                                    silly facts.\r\n\r\nIn this land\r\nof contradictions,\r\nI chose to find\r\nthe riddle\r\nthat made it\r\nall fine.\r\n\r\n                                                    So, came the eagle,\r\n                                                    my eye of awareness,\r\n                                                    which made it all\r\n                                                    turn upside down:\r\n\r\n                        In the land\r\n                        of today,\r\n                        it said,\r\n                        you can see\r\n                        the contradiction\r\n                        you are,\r\n                        both as one,\r\n                        and then\r\n                        there is no\r\n                        contradiction,\r\n                        but your own mind,\r\n                        because as an eagle\r\n                        there is no mind,\r\n                        just the experience\r\n                        of being one.\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<div class=\"important\">What appears to be double, might just be an illusion, a trick of the mind that allows us to divide and multiply, as long as our perception is adjusted to such entrapment. Shift your perception, what do you see? Does the eye interpret colors from wavelengths or does color exist beyond our perception?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this land of contradictions, some trees blossom, others are evergreen, such as a circle hidden inside a square, a triangle inside itself, or Escher fiddling with Bach to make the Earth giggle in their bubbles of math. 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