I am repeating the following post as both Danny’s urban farm and gardens and The Way of the Virtuous today, because they are illustrative of how we act in a dualism role. My foundation’s purpose is to show how we live at nature’s call as collaborative role models setting an example for others.
Discovering and finding our role when we are living to fulfil our highest aspiration. In the beginning unsure what that will be. I am reminded that I am now writing this more than thirty years after the original was written as commentary. Writing with the words just flowing, following the I Ching, unconcerned with what the ultimate meaning may be. I seem to be living as though I am in the state of becoming someone else.
It begins with history and my grandma. Describing my time on the farm and times spent with my grandma will follow in the following entries. The key to seeing how nature and Taoism becomes the touchstone.
Number 2 of the I Ching
My Grandmother’s Garden
She comes in peace knowing utmost harmony. Nurturing. Receptive and forgiving, restrained yet uncomplicated. The dragons flying through the sky disappear into the clouds retiring, once strong and assertive now retreating and finding a secure place.
Looking down Mother Earth comes into focus with new growth and new beginnings. Differences occur but a connectedness of all things with the seasons begins. Yang becomes yin. Strong becomes weak, hard becomes soft, male becomes female in the oneness of Tao.
Leaving the clouds behind and finding the earth beneath my feet, I discover that I am here to find clarity, to focus, to listen and most importantly to learn. To find the ways of my garden. To know the earth as my grandmother taught me. To know beginnings and endings. Simply to know and remember what my grandmother taught me.
An original composition and interpretation of the Chinese Classic the I Ching (2 EARTH / Earth over Earth). 2/5/94
I seem to be always learning the ways of my garden. As I remain simply the guardian to change as my garden remains in constant renewal with the seasons as the arrive. The idea of leaving the clouds behind and finding the earth beneath my feet, has shown me that we follow vibrations that are eternal. That it is in the silence we first listen and then act.
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