What we have learned along the way is that service to nature brings all things you find along for the ride. Assisting all you find for its own sake, and doing so matters more than the attainment or reward. That to serve nature in this selfless way is to be free.
That thoughts in Eastern philosophy that permeates Taoism. Buddhism, and Hindu of karma, i.e., cause and effect (just as in Christianity we think of “as you sow so shall you reap”), make us more tolerant and less judgmental. That bad acts will receive their due without the intervention of the victim.
It is our common heritage from Indigenous times coming forward we learned that it is the interdependence of all life that centers of our spiritual attainment. To the I Ching over millennia we learn that it becomes our nature that saves us. The entry below focuses on fulfillment as we understand the power and purpose of nature. Of the role that the sun, moon, earth, stars, and sky, play in our own success or failure. We cannot separate ourselves from our past. present, or future.
We live in a world of manifestation as we are to adapt, staying in the middle of things through time. As things grow and decay, we learn when to stop and wait for the passing storm to move on before continuing. That all things found in nature depend on both sun and water to live.
Number 63 of the I Ching
Fleeting moments of anticipated Joy
Coming up a well-worn path you break the tree line and see a river that must be crossed if the journey is to proceed unimpeded. You have by now broken through much fertile territory that you could not have known existed.
The I Ching as your guide, a sense of fulfillment that the completion of the first phase of your venture is well within sight.
The way you have followed has brought you from afar with no hope or desire of turning back. The ultimate truth waiting patiently as it now knows that you are well on your way. A sense of attainment close by that is like an ultimate hunger desperately wanting more. Fleeting moments of anticipated joy that can only lead to wanting more and more.
The trip has been long and arduous. The coming river to be crossed but a synopsis of how you willfully got to this point. A great deal of attention preparing to put into the widest point of the river where the current is not as swift. As if you have found your inner bliss.
Entering the river with a large log that will float using it as a guide. Kicking slowly and methodically to the other side. A deep sense of satisfaction at a job completed and well done. Finding oneself across the river of joy and up the bank to a high plateau everything suddenly seems in order. You dust yourself off and continue on your great journey, the I Ching almost behind you. Your sense of purpose and direction no longer in question. Ahead lie only new heights to scale.
An original composition and interpretation of the Chinese Classic the I Ching (63 FULFILLMENT / Water over Fire). 3/28/94
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