Three Essential Processes
There may often be those around you who live in an illusion. It’s sometimes useful to watch this as if it’s a play, other times it’s useful to cultivate a growth of something real, and yet others it is useful to mold and create a form. It is a harmony between watching, cultivating, and growing.
This is why gardening is such an enlightening endeavor, for with this art form, you learn much of what is vital for life. A plant will need water and nutrients. It may need some pruning. These processes involve cultivation and molding respectively. Then often, you need only to wait and watch. This is awareness or watching.
What is perhaps most important to remember is that behind all these is a single oneness. That oneness is what lies beyond and within the things you are watching, cultivating, and molding. Forever keep an eye on that which is REAL. Feel that place, embody that place even in the face of a world of maya. In chaos you find stillness. And stillness only exists because of chaos. Understand this and you are then able to see that which is real.
In chaos you find stillness.
What is also of utmost importance to remember is that you have never SEEN. It is not a one and done process and as such it is never a place or state you achieve or reach. It is seeING, beING, watchING, cultivatING, growING, moldING.
A note about molding. I find that I encounter a bit of resistance to the idea of molding because it has with it the connotation of changing who you are to be something better and more fulfilled. This is NOT what I mean by molding. Instead what I mean is much more along the lines of a plant’s growth or a river’s flow.
You see, a plant chooses a direction to spread its leaves — usually towards the sunlight — and grows accordingly. This is an active molding according to the nature and reality of what the plant ALRADY IS. It is not becoming something for the plant to be itself, but rather in being itself, it molds itself.
It is not becoming something for the plant to be itself, but rather in being itself, it molds itself.
The same is true for a river. A river has tis flow, direction, and current and this naturally allows it to mold its path and direction according to the lay of the land. It is an active molding of itself based on it itself. That is true molding. And that is its value and place.
