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The Guru Goes Back to the Giving Tree
June 20th, 2005
By Christopher Herz
The Health Guru / eCureMe LIFE
So you’ve seen it all already.
When you think about what to do and where to go, your mind goes round and
round with you, and none of it sounds even remotely satisfying. Maybe you
are constantly looking to travel the world and get out on the road to see
what else the universe holds for you. You think that by keeping yourself
in constant motion that you will be able to cover everything in your
lifetime? You want it all and perhaps you can’t take anything but
that.
It’s OK America, you were trained to do that.
Perhaps you are afraid of the boney fingers of old age telling you to step
aside and pull up your pants while you’re at it.
While the world continues to close in on you, you think that if you run
into it there will be new one unfolding for you. That is not the case.
"But Guru, you told us to get out and explore the Unknown!"
This is true, but once you get comfortable in one situation, sometimes it
is best to take a look at the other side so that you can truly see all of
the options in front of you. You must let go to gain.
Often times, the only thing to do may be to sit still, despite all of your
earthling longings to otherwise. Fight your desire to run and sit down to
look at your life. Re-examine things that you have seen before.
Perception changes with age. To realize just how much you have grown, it
might be a good idea to get through once again to the people and places you
once knew who are resting deep down inside of your heart. It is how to rid
yourselves of demons.
For me, what set it off was re-reading a book that I enjoyed as a child.
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein has shaped many a young person’s
view. But how long has been since you’ve read that book? Or any other
book from your childhood?
We all know the story: Tree Loves Boy, Boy takes from tree, Keeps taking,
comes back, and love remains despite everything. A beautiful story about
preserving nature and what love really means.
This time, I had a completely different approach to the story than I did
when I was a child. My experiences with love, loss, sex, extreme pleasure
and extreme sorrow had changed my perspectives on things and given me
something new to look at inside the book.
I took the book in with my class and it lead to a discussion on nature
and how growing trees can bring everything around us into a balance.
The next thing I new, I was at home depot and the 99 cent store picking
out seeds and soil and your Guru was around the house putting plants in the
created earth and planting poppy seeds wherever I could.
Didn’t turn on the television once during the entire three day
Memorial Day weekend.
Now, my house is filled with sprouting life despite the best efforts of
my cat who thinks that each plant is a different derivative of cat nip for
him to - enjoy.
He will learn, the sicker he gets.
In the time that I’ve been planting and growing, my spirits have
been up and my hope that things will change and constantly grow is
reaffirmed because there is a physical example of that happening in font
of me.
Besides the Chemistry 101 fact that plants produce oxygen which makes it
easier for you to breathe, especially in these hot summer months -
You produce Carbon Dioxide, which helps the plants live. You are creating
and maintaining life inside of your house, which will affect your mind in
ways you perhaps do not realize. You know that tings are depending on you
for life. The plants are now making it all the more interesting for you
because they are making you happy.
I tell something.
Watering a plant and clipping off the leaves so that the new ones can grow
and flourish in the light makes you realizes just how amazing and fragile
life is. You need to understand both so that you can deal with your stress.
Plants give you the balance as well as the options of variety.
Try spending a few minutes at a Home Depot next time and roll into their
nursery section. If there is no Home Depot even close to you, turn to your
local people. In fact, even if there is a Home Depot around you should
still go to your small time business owner and take stroll through their
gardens. For the price of a movie, popcorn and a dinner out, you can
bring life into your home that regenerates and adds natural color to your
living situation. If you do this physically, imagine the affects that it
can have on your mind. This is true growth. This is development of
thought.
You need to explore everything fully to see that everything is possible.
Revisit movies and books and places that you’ve not been to and have
other associations with. I know sometimes it may be hard to go back to a
certain spot because of the memories that exists there. This can be true
with lost love as well as lost loved ones. The thought of the physical
space often prevents us from going there. But let me tell you something¡¦
xwhen you felt pain. You have overcome some of those feelings that may have
been holding you back for so long.
Besides the effects time and age have on a situation, the courage that it
takes to move through those once sacred grounds should give you confidence
to move on through with other things.
All of this from what?
Well, from staying put in one place long enough to figure it out. Damn,
that journey was a crazy one I know, but you knew your Guru would land
you nice¡¦
If you wish to continue your Gardening ways, make sure that you give your
plants more than water and plant food, if you are indeed feeding your plants.
Since plants are sentient beings (they can feel), music and some
conversation do wonders for growth and stability, just as they do for
humans.
Look at what mysteries are unlocked once you take time to explore things
and study them.
Go deeper my people. The mysteries of the world are buried and forgotten
not because of their significance, but because of how difficult it is to
keep track of them.
Peace.
H.G.
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