ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION




   The garden that is growing in my backyard has become a mirror for my own growth as a person. In setting up the bricks, containers and areas to make the area for the garden for seeds to grow, I was participating in a relationship with the seeds and the garden environment. In my co-creating, I had the purpose to grow vegetables to produce fruit and vegetables. As the radish and the chard and the zucchini squash grew, they were growing in love. For these plants and vegetables knew that what is created with love lasts, shines and inspires.  In watching these radish, chard and zucchini grow, I saw their purpose was to create their form, in the shape of leaves and fruits and flowers, and I beheld their creativity and their vision in union with the universe.
    As I saw, I felt.  As a gardener, I was inspired by the beauty of radish, chard and zucchini to grow and display their color and form. In doing this, they were showing their love for the universe by being their essence. In being, they were flowing completely in their purpose and in their mission and in their desire to share the love bestowed on them by the universe.
    As I planted the seeds of radish, chard and zucchini, I was planting the need of the seed to have soil to grow. In planting these seed, and in co-creating with these seeds, and in watching the radish, chard and zucchini BE,  I saw my own being in my environment with my own desire to love and be loved. For me, these seeds were a metaphor for planting these seeds in my consciousness to love and create. Furthermore, as I watered and cared for these seeds, I was also nurturing myself with water and care and attention which enhanced my creativity. Finally, the radish, chard and zucchini were growing well, which was a lesson that this attentive nurturing grows in strength and it becomes powerful.   
    From this, I realized that some seeds grow and some seeds do not grow, such as the summer zucchini seed that did not grow. The seeds that grew joined in their purpose and love, while the seeds that did not grow did not join in their purpose and love. I thought myself when I was happy and I was joined in my purpose, and I was creating my maps with joy. Then I thought the times when I was not happy and I was not joined in my purpose, and I was complaining that the world was against me.
    I  also realized that I was focused on the expectations of harvesting the vegetables before they even grew, and thus I was part of the love of the radish, chard and zucchini, but I was also not part of their love. I was focused on the future, rather than the present. My expectations were focused on the future result. I was ignoring the life and flow of growing as an energy engaged in its life process, which each radish, chard and zucchini knew intuitively what they were created to do. Each radish, chard and zucchini was fully connected to its own relationship with the universe, while I was outside this intuitive consciousness because of my focus on the future result.
    Thus, I see that the seeds that did not grow were resisting their life purpose and as such, could not grow because of their inner rejection of their purpose. Meanwhile, the seeds that did grow, were accepting their purpose. Some seeds grow knowing that they are fully connected with the unconditional love of the universe and other seeds create conditions which block them from receiving the unconditional love of the universe. These conditions reflect a disconnection with the flow of life so that the seeds that do not grow have a condition, internally created, within the seed that prohibits their acceptance of growth.
    This idea of acceptance in the seed of its own growth is measured by its opposite of resistance. For the seeds that do not grow, I would offer that they are resisting their own growth. The seeds that resist do not see themselves as seeds who accept their unconditionality of growth. Instead, I offer that they see themselves as limited by their conditions of growth. Perhaps  these seeds are blaming external conditions like the soil is too nitrogen poor, or the rain is not regular enough, or the sun is too strong-all these conditions create resistance to growth.
    The seeds that I planted in the garden follow their purpose, and I was learning from their growth or non-growth. As I search for answers for why some seeds grow, I must also acknowledge that my co-participation in the growth of seeds is my own energy of resistance or acceptance. It is plausible that the seeds that are not growing did not synchronize with my energy at the time of my panting of the seed. Thus, was I with the energy of resistance when I planted the seeds that did not grow. In this sharing of my resistance, the seeds that do not grow are a mirror of my own energy vibrations at the time of planting.

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