A deep concentration seized
on me, and I perceived that I was identifying myself. with a single cherry-blossom,
then through it with all cherry-blossoms; and as I descended deeper in the
consciousness, following a stream of bluish force, I became suddenly the
cherry-tree itself, stretching towards the sky like so many arms its innumerable
branches laden with their sacrifice of flowers. Then I heard distinctly
this sentence:
"Thus hast thou made thyself one with the soul of the cherry-trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the offering of this flower-prayer to heaven."
When I had written it, all was effaced; but now the blood of
the cherry-tree flows in my veins and with it flows an incomparable peace
and force. What difference is there between the human body and the body
of a tree?
In truth, there is none: the consciousness which animates them is identically
the same.
Then the cherry-tree whispered in my ear:
"It is in
the cherry-blossom that there lies the remedy
for the disorders of the spring."
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