What is moving?

Question

I was looking at a tree with my friend the other day. I said to him "I like the way the tree looks as its leaves are moving."

He replied "I like it too, but I think that it is the wind that is moving."

This really confused me but I couldn't work out why.

So what is the truth? What is moving?

Answer 1

hmmmm, was it a 'good' friend? Maybe the earth was moving? :)

Answer 2

The leaves in the tree is moving, the wind move the leaves around the tree.
Surely is their is no wind, maybe the leaves wont move, but the wind generates a current strong enough that makes the leaves moves. So you can't see the wind moving, but you see the effects it provoke in the leaves, the wind move, but also the leaves....
If the current isn't strong enough, then they will be still, but they are flexible and this flexibility helps that the leaves don't fall from the tree is the current of the air is strong; so they move, they permitted the wind move between them, so they wont fall of the tree, and let a nude tree without leaves!

Answer 3

Sounds like Zen bullsh**. The wind is causing the tree's leaves to move from their static position.

Answer 4

" Wind is Blowing and Leaves are Moving "
Do not try to search a Zen Koan In It. There is none.
I will tell You One.

"How do the leaves of the tree move when the wind is not blowing"

Meditate over it.

Answer 5

The tree, even though it is a living thing, it can't move itself, as it has no brain, and thus no control over its movements. The wind is the one responsible for the movement of the leaves that you witnessed.

Answer 6

Mind is moving.

Answer 7

Everything is moving except the chemicals in your brain.