Currents of thought are a common result of rainy days. Whether walking through it or listening to it from a chair or the door of a pig sty, rain inspires recollection, retrospection, and consideration.
Raindrops fall on pigs backs like the reminders of opportunities from their past lives. Knowing this, they will not waste a moment of a rainy morning, or any part of a damp day, in contemplation. For pigs understand, without ever speaking of it, just what nature has destined for the swine and what their end must be.
the Porcine Oracle
Additional information:
- Bodhipakkhiyādhammā – contemplation and the four frames of reference in Buddhism
- Young women in contemplation of pigs
- Henry Moret, Jeunes Bretonnes dans la lande
- Thomas Gainsborough, Girl with Pigs
- The circular Yin Yang figure is the graphic representation of Taoist theology. It provides each person an aid to the contemplation of the balance of opposites in their lives.