Is This “An Enormous Carefully Manicured Museum"[that gives] “The Illusion of Reality?
….[ “It seemed an enormous museum with exhibits carefully manicured to give the illusion of reality, but nicely chained off so that children would not injure them."]
NE corner of Mammoth Hot Springs, Intersection US-89, Yellowstone National Park, WY. Of course, we all agree with the Narrator that without the "manmade fences", the hordes of people who come here would, “walk on the exhibits”, soon completely destroying these wonderful formations. But the "man domination" (people, roads, parking lots, fences, mowed grass, etc) all inescapably change, and tend to destroy, the wholeness of nature, which is what exactly you are visiting to see. (This thought continued in caption next.)
….So the ZMM Pilgrim, knowing this, should endeavor (wherever possible) to leave the human "beaten path" and go slow to explore/absorb “the real thing” !!
….The Narrator, on ZMM next page (p126), discusses what he learned about Oriental Religions from his several year trip to India, and the study of Oriental philosophy. .He gives a passage that purposefully speaks to what he is saying about his objections to YNP =>
…
-> “In all of the Oriental religions great value is placed on the Sanskrit doctrine of Tat tvam asi, "Thou art that," which asserts that everything you think you are and everything you think you perceive are undivided. To realize fully this lack of division is to become enlightened. “
….This is an important passage, which should be carefully applied when a person is anywhere (but most especially a “Tourist Attraction”): They should seek, Quality In Action, to keep a proper sense of undivided wholeness before your awareness, or at least before “your mind’s eye”!
*************************
(Photo = 107-0715 ...... ZMM Page = 125 ...... WayPt = 174`|w|' 6320ft)