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The puppet, the ladybug and the perfect moment
The German novelist Kleist believes that only the consciousness-free puppet or the infinite god can repeat the most graceful movement. Puppets do not know which action of theirs is most graceful, so they won't give special attention to that part when dancing, and thus they could avoid the artificialness in their movement. Sadly we cannot free ourselves from the consciousness unless we eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge once again. As human beings we can never re-experience the most beautiful moment in our lives once we've realized its rarity and perfection, and the non-repeatable perfect moment we ever experienced always took place when we were unconscious of its existence.
In Under the Tuscan Sun, a memoir by Frances Meyes, Katherine tells Frances, "when I was a little girl, I used to spend hours looking for ladybugs. Finally, I'd just give up and fall asleep in the grass. When I woke up, they were crawling all over me."
When Frances accidentally met the handsome Marcello, she thought she had caught her "ladybugs". But before long the amorous Marcello turned away from Frances, just like a ladybug flew by one plant and another.
It is at the end of the story that Ed appeared, unexpectedly but predestinedly--unexpectedly because Frances was no longer anxiously searching for love but settled down; predestined because his appearance was so full of symbolic meanings: the very first thing he does for her was catching a ladybug off her, which came to rest on her unknowingly.
True love is like any other perfect moment. It comes only when you are unconscious of its coming. Perhaps the only thing we could do is try to get rid of all greed through a "catharsis" of our mind. Then we'll be able to welcome the drop-by of any "ladybug" with a heart as unsophisticated as that of the puppet's.
The German novelist Kleist believes that only the consciousness-free puppet or the infinite god can repeat the most graceful movement. Puppets do not know which action of theirs is most graceful, so they won't give special attention to that part when dancing, and thus they could avoid the artificialness in their movement. Sadly we cannot free ourselves from the consciousness unless we eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge once again. As human beings we can never re-experience the most beautiful moment in our lives once we've realized its rarity and perfection, and the non-repeatable perfect moment we ever experienced always took place when we were unconscious of its existence.
In Under the Tuscan Sun, a memoir by Frances Meyes, Katherine tells Frances, "when I was a little girl, I used to spend hours looking for ladybugs. Finally, I'd just give up and fall asleep in the grass. When I woke up, they were crawling all over me."
When Frances accidentally met the handsome Marcello, she thought she had caught her "ladybugs". But before long the amorous Marcello turned away from Frances, just like a ladybug flew by one plant and another.
It is at the end of the story that Ed appeared, unexpectedly but predestinedly--unexpectedly because Frances was no longer anxiously searching for love but settled down; predestined because his appearance was so full of symbolic meanings: the very first thing he does for her was catching a ladybug off her, which came to rest on her unknowingly.
True love is like any other perfect moment. It comes only when you are unconscious of its coming. Perhaps the only thing we could do is try to get rid of all greed through a "catharsis" of our mind. Then we'll be able to welcome the drop-by of any "ladybug" with a heart as unsophisticated as that of the puppet's.
