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Quick stop for a photo under the Chandelier Tree in Leggett.
California
1971
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Quick stop for a photo under the Chandelier Tree in Leggett.
California
1971
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"This is Leggett, he loves to sleep on his back"
Dragon Mask
On the importance of Ukemi
A drunken man falls from his carriage without hurting himself seriously, remarked Chuang-tsu over two thousand years ago. This is because his body is relaxed and his spirit is entire. But actually confronting a fall, this knowledge is of no use; the body automatically contracts and stiffens.
A judo student must learn to fall, to meet the ground altogether instead of trying to keep off the ground and taking all the shock on one small point such as the wrist. After a time he can meet a fall on the judo mat, and if the teacher says “Fall’, he can do so.
Still something is lacking. One day the teacher comes up behind him quietly, and pulls him sharply over. If he falls then properly, it is part of him; he does it without knowing what he is doing. If the surprise makes him stiffen up, his training is incomplete.
Even after he can pass this test, there is one more. One day he will fall over, on ice or whatever it is, wholly by chance, and will fall properly. Once this happens, it affects his walking and his judo practice, because before he had always been subconsciously afraid of falling. Now the ground is his friend.
The application to the Way is to falls in life. To be able to take a disaster or a great failure, with the whole personality, without shrinking back from it, like the big smack with which the judo man hits the ground, then to rise at once.
Not to be appalled at a moral fall. Yet it is not that it does not matter. The judo man tries by every means not to be thrown, but when he is thrown it does not hurt him, and in a sense it does not matter. It matters immensely, and yet it does not matter.
Author: Trevor Leggett
“Chandelier Tree” - Drive-Thru Tree Park - Leggett, CA - 1975
May Silvanus guide your path to the massive Kuldahar oak near Leggett. California, USA.
Via Baldur’s Gate
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Chandelier Tree in Leggett California
1933
Fun Fact:
How does the Chandelier Tree stay alive with so much of its heart cut out? The Chandelier Tree is a Coastal Redwood or Sequoia semperviren. These trees have no tap root, but instead a shallow root system (4 to 6 feet deep) that spreads out for up to 250 feet from the base.
Chandelier Tree in Drive Through Tree Park, is a coast Redwood tree in Leggett, California.
It measures at 276ft and 21ft wide (regardless of what the sign claims) with a 16ft drive-through hole cut into it.
The tree is believed to have been carved out in the early 1930′s by Charlie Underwood