Two vibrant Bougainvillea trees grow together at Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India, featuring both brilliant pink and warm orange bracts and producing thorns which help them climb and cling to a beige wall. Trees growing together over a grave is a natural phenomenon known as inosculation. The trunks, branches, or roots of two or more trees touch, graze and eventually graft or merge to form a single intertwined structure. They often represent a living memorial, symbolising the continuation of life and the bonding of the departed. The Celts believed trees held souls and planted them on graves so the tree could protect the deceased and provide a new vessel for their spirit.
Die while you’re alive
and be absolutely dead.
Then do whatever you want:
it’s all good.
Zen Master Bunan, 17th century
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