Guest guest Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 I have a tendency to frame things in my own frame of reference. I can only look at life and it's experiences thru the eyes I have. I have no idea how everyone else views our shared reality. I've been thinking K is so much like a garden. You decide to plant a garden. Cultivate one. I said before, that is one of my favorite words. Cultivate, intention, action, growth. So you pick a piece of ground to make into a garden. The very first thing you must do, is tear out everything that exists. Now if you have picked a field it's a little easier, if you have woodland to deal with prepare for some heavy work. We look at the surface of things, a chunk of land that looks promising can hold all sorts of surprises. I'm not really old fashioned, but I prefer to use hand tools. I like being intimate with the earth. So you take the first step and sink the spading fork into the ground, a vague apology for disturbing her. Turn the sod over, so the greenery will fluff up the soil and give it health. Then you hit a rock. Just a small one, but one that does not want to be free of the earth. So you dig, work you're way around it until it is finally free. Victory, take another fork full and now you are into tree roots, thin, thick and everywhere. At this point you have to actually take the ax out and sever all those ties. You are sweating and shaking and totally focused on this one thing. This is serious work. There is nothing more important than making this garden. Sink the fork again, and it just bounces off a bigger rock. OK so that is how this is going to go, we have the makings of a stone wall. You look at the soil you have freed and you can see it is not healthy. It needs more nutrients and needs to be exposed to less toxins. A soil test might be in order. I've got 45 years of gardening in, so what I do is taste the soil. PH is the most important, and I can taste sweet soil. You have to change the whole bio-chemistry of the soil, nothing bad, feed the idea of growth for you are certainly on your way to growth. There may be some things you need to add, you might not have them and need to seek them out, for my garden I needed lime to sweeten the soil. You may need watermelon. So we have a garden ready for seed, what are you going to plant? Peace Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Wow Don, this is terrific! I really enjoyed reading this and I am going to save it. Great parallel to the process we are going through! Sarita , merlin wrote: > > I have a tendency to frame things in my own frame of reference. I can only > look at life and it's experiences thru the eyes I have. I have no idea how > everyone else views our shared reality. I've been thinking K is so much > like a garden. > > You decide to plant a garden. Cultivate one. I said before, that is one of > my favorite words. Cultivate, intention, action, growth. > > So you pick a piece of ground to make into a garden. The very first thing > you must do, is tear out everything that exists. Now if you have picked a > field it's a little easier, if you have woodland to deal with prepare for > some heavy work. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Thanks Don, that was really inspired and beautiful. We are all flowers.... beautiful and unique with our own special fragrance. Love elektra x x x ________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at http://uk.docs./ymail/new.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 Reminds me of my favorite quote: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi Julie All that we are is the result of what we have thought. - (Siddhartha Gautama)Buddha --- On Tue, 7/8/08, merlin <merlin wrote: merlin <merlin Cultivating the garden Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 10:50 PM I have a tendency to frame things in my own frame of reference. I can only look at life and it's experiences thru the eyes I have. I have no idea how everyone else views our shared reality. I've been thinking K is so much like a garden. You decide to plant a garden. Cultivate one. I said before, that is one of my favorite words. Cultivate, intention, action, growth. So you pick a piece of ground to make into a garden. The very first thing you must do, is tear out everything that exists. Now if you have picked a field it's a little easier, if you have woodland to deal with prepare for some heavy work. We look at the surface of things, a chunk of land that looks promising can hold all sorts of surprises. I'm not really old fashioned, but I prefer to use hand tools. I like being intimate with the earth. So you take the first step and sink the spading fork into the ground, a vague apology for disturbing her. Turn the sod over, so the greenery will fluff up the soil and give it health. Then you hit a rock. Just a small one, but one that does not want to be free of the earth. So you dig, work you're way around it until it is finally free. Victory, take another fork full and now you are into tree roots, thin, thick and everywhere. At this point you have to actually take the ax out and sever all those ties. You are sweating and shaking and totally focused on this one thing. This is serious work. There is nothing more important than making this garden. Sink the fork again, and it just bounces off a bigger rock. OK so that is how this is going to go, we have the makings of a stone wall. You look at the soil you have freed and you can see it is not healthy. It needs more nutrients and needs to be exposed to less toxins. A soil test might be in order. I've got 45 years of gardening in, so what I do is taste the soil. PH is the most important, and I can taste sweet soil. You have to change the whole bio-chemistry of the soil, nothing bad, feed the idea of growth for you are certainly on your way to growth. There may be some things you need to add, you might not have them and need to seek them out, for my garden I needed lime to sweeten the soil. You may need watermelon. So we have a garden ready for seed, what are you going to plant? Peace Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2008 Report Share Posted July 9, 2008 This sheds light on the saying of Lord Yeshua, " Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain of wheat; but if it dies, it bears much fruit... , merlin wrote: > > I have a tendency to frame things in my own frame of reference. I can only > look at life and it's experiences thru the eyes I have. I have no idea how > everyone else views our shared reality. I've been thinking K is so much > like a garden. > > You decide to plant a garden. Cultivate one. I said before, that is one of > my favorite words. Cultivate, intention, action, growth. > > So you pick a piece of ground to make into a garden. The very first thing > you must do, is tear out everything that exists. Now if you have picked a > field it's a little easier, if you have woodland to deal with prepare for > some heavy work. > > We look at the surface of things, a chunk of land that looks promising can > hold all sorts of surprises. I'm not really old fashioned, but I prefer to > use hand tools. I like being intimate with the earth. > > So you take the first step and sink the spading fork into the ground, a > vague apology for disturbing her. Turn the sod over, so the greenery will > fluff up the soil and give it health. > > Then you hit a rock. Just a small one, but one that does not want to be > free of the earth. So you dig, work you're way around it until it is > finally free. > Victory, take another fork full and now you are into tree roots, thin, > thick and everywhere. > > At this point you have to actually take the ax out and sever all those ties. > You are sweating and shaking and totally focused on this one thing. This > is serious work. There is nothing more important than making this garden. > > Sink the fork again, and it just bounces off a bigger rock. OK so that is > how this is going to go, we have the makings of a stone wall. > > You look at the soil you have freed and you can see it is not healthy. It > needs more nutrients and needs to be exposed to less toxins. A soil test > might be in order. I've got 45 years of gardening in, so what I do is > taste the soil. PH is the most important, and I can taste sweet soil. You > have to change the whole bio-chemistry of the soil, nothing bad, feed the > idea of growth for you are certainly on your way to growth. > > There may be some things you need to add, you might not have them and need > to seek them out, for my garden I needed lime to sweeten the soil. You may > need watermelon. > > So we have a garden ready for seed, what are you going to plant? > > Peace > > Don > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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