we are nature

What is rooted is easy to nourish.

What is recent is easy to correct.

What is brittle is easy to break.

What is small is easy to scatter.

Prevent trouble before it arises.

Put things in order before they exist.

The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout.

The journey of a thousand miles starts form beneath our feet.

Rushing into action you fail.

Trying to grasp things, you lose them.

Forcing a project into completion you ruin what was almost ripe.

Therefore, the master takes action by letting things take their own course.

s/he remains calm at the end as at the begging.

s/he has nothing therefore has nothing to lose.

What s/he desires is non-desire;

What s/he learns is to unlearn.

S/he simply reminds people of who they have always been.

S/he cares for nothing but Tao.

Thus s/he can care for all things.

Tao Te Ching

Tao is the way of nature.

We are nature.

Our bodies already sit in the awakening.

We are already here.

And when we are fully here, totally present, we are exactly where we need to be.

It is our minds that make us disassociate, worry and complain by spinning stories about “me” and “mine”.

So what is there to learn is to unlearn: Just observing, witnessing things as they are;

Body and mind united in the present moment awareness, we have the opportunity to observe non-dually, directly, through our senses and without the distortions of our mental and emotional projections and conditioning.

Expanding our awareness we become profoundly interconnected, breathing with the trees (I breath out CO2 the tree breathes it in through the bark and breathes out O2.. Right this minute, between these four walls, as you read this the air you breathe has been exhaled by the trees), we become nature.

What is rooted is easy to nourish, what is brittle is easy to break…

Mindfulness helps us recognise where we tip out of balance, meditation helps us to re-establish our selves in the awareness and wellbeing.

Each mindful breath is a new beginning. Each out-breath an opportunity to let go, relax and start anew; this way life is possible again.

Beathe, smile and enjoy!

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