SHACK 212 ROUNDNESS

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What does it mean to be an all round person?  Well we can say this person is accomplished in a completeness that is almost watertight or in sport we can say this person can play any position and has beaten nearly everyone in their field of endeavor. 

Yet let us consider nature most of its most beautiful shapes are round and full, oval like eggs, branches and trees.  It is said round is strong in nature and the circle has balanced stresses.  

Filling a circle or pot is easily the most shapes people choose and with a circle one can expand its perimeters and it retains its shape.

Let us look at the round mind, this may seem a strange way of commenting on such a thing, however if one has a round mind then it capable of viewing itself with a three hundred and sixty degree of itself and an all round view. One is at the center of the circle and as such sees and knows the content of the mind, if it were not at the center it would see segments cut off from the circumference.

Perhaps nature chose the round shapes not because of strength and economy of energy alone but because nature is at the center of all things and is the intelligence and informing principle behind the scenes and manifestations of its forms.

Many think of atoms as round with a nucleus and electrons and things whizzing round it, of course atoms have been smashed and we get particles which in their essence and not shaped as such and lead one back to emptiness and this then gives way to something came from nothing.

Then nothingness is the backdrop, the canvas for something to appear on.

Then why did nature choose roundness?

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