JĀTAKA 15–16 – The Art of Not Falling

 

 

 

An ethereal net of almost invisible threads floats in a black void.
No center, no borders. Elegant, normal, and therefore dangerous.

 

The invisible net, discernment, and the counter-path to power

 

Jātaka 15 and 16 tell of two deer and the same net.
The first refuses to learn the world’s ruses and is caught.
The second has learned them: even when trapped, it manages to escape.

This is not a story about cleverness, but about discernment.

Station II of the Redeemed Time Path does not promise salvation.
It does not teach how to break the net or defeat the hunter.
It teaches something more austere and more demanding: to recognize the trap before it becomes destiny.

The image video accompanying this station shows a net suspended in the void.
Extremely thin threads, barely visible, anchored to nothing.
No center. No dominant node.
In some areas the threads thicken, creating the illusion of form.

The net is not violent.
It is elegant. Ordinary.
That is precisely why it captures.

No animal appears in the image.
The viewer is already inside.

The counter-path here is not heroism, but the silent practice of not falling:
discernment, ascesis, slowness, silence.
Lucidity does not save.
It holds.