2007-09-10 03:39:09 · 37 answers · asked by Banshee 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The Fig Tree that Buddha sat under, that way I might have been able to shower figs on his head and break his meditative trance - one less religion in the world. ... Oh well
2007-09-17 20:31:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tree Of Life
2007-09-10 04:19:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Banayan tree.
2007-09-11 03:47:11 · answer #3 · answered by shivamat bhairav 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I could be a very old tree, I would most certainly would love to be an Oak tree, they are green year round, and lasts for Years.
2007-09-10 10:22:40 · answer #4 · answered by a.vasquez7413@sbcglobal.net 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just think the beech tree, when it reaches maturity, looks so cool and noble.
ps I'm currently reading 'The Natural History of North American Trees" A classic, great for people that love trees.
2007-09-10 03:46:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Joshua tree
2007-09-10 06:39:41 · answer #6 · answered by Freedspirit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sophist's Ode to a bristle cone pine was quite beautiful! I "know" the tree well. I've painted it often--"twisted & torn..undaunted..." it's an awesome symbol of life. Yet, I would choose the giant redwood, whose overwhelming presence has often brought me the greatest peacefulness of spirit. I would go Muir Woods when I wished for harmony, & always found it there--as well as a very special place in Boulder Creek where the giants formed a circle, as in a Pagan temple. My senses were not intellectual; they are difficult to put into words. Strength, wisdom, solitude. Beneath them, the soft green mosses, & ferns--the perspective--looking up to the tops where they seemed to reach the sky. When I put my hands on them, their energy flowed through me. They are solid, & silent warriors. While the bristle cone is the oldest, it dwells in barren lands, & there is, (in me), ambivalance in their torment & endurance.
I love all trees, & feel physical pain when they are so wantonly killed to make room for malls, & asphalt. But, I would be a redwood tree.
2007-09-11 11:03:10 · answer #7 · answered by Valac Gypsy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A giant Sequoia tree
2007-09-10 04:20:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddha got enlightenment while sitting under a BunYan tree
It is so huge that its roots hang from the branches to the ground and somehow it has the vibes of wisdom as old age certainly gives ....so let me be a bunyan tree and let a soul like Budha the saint sit under my shade and give me company and lots of people to surround Buddha as he shares his wise enlightenment --so i will never be bored standing there for ages .
2007-09-10 05:23:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bristle cone pine - the oldest tree in existance (2000+yrs of age) and this is why:
The Lonely Pine
(Ode to a bristle cone pine)
Upon a craggy hill it grew,
solid and alone.
Limbs with ragged foliage grown,
lifted toward a vaulted dome of blue.
From a cracked and jagged rock it sprouted,
twisted and torn.
It’s limbs broken and shorn,
but undaunted and undoubted.
Solid it stands against the mountainside,
weathering storm and wind.
Tough and strong, it’s roots barely hide
with rock they blend.
All the world it defied,
this tree of such pugnacity.
Unloved and unkempt, it does abide
to stand alone in overwhelming majesty.
The bristle cone pine is the oldest living thing on the earth
2007-09-11 02:49:44 · answer #10 · answered by Sophist 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋