Re: Is There Spirituality Involved in your Relationship With Plants?

Two spiritual principles that show up in various spiritual traditions, are
1) being fully present in the moment, and 2) recognizing the All in the one
and the One in all.  I find I come closest to reaching these in my garden,
or in the wild.  My mind often goes on autopilot for periods of the day
(driving, office work) but when I am tending my garden or exploring in the
woods, all that anxiety over past and future melts away, and I am able to
give total focus to the experience of all my senses at that moment.  To
bring that complete attention to each moment is I think what the Buddhists
call one-pointedness.
The second principle is familiar to all of us...to see the world in a grain
of sand...to see in a single flower a microcosm of the perfection of the
universe.  It is the closest I've come to grasping the idea that we are all
made of the same stuff, and are connected in ways we cannot even dream.

 -----Original Message-----
From: David King <greenman@ucla.edu>
To: Community Garden list <community_garden@ag.arizona.edu>; CSA List
<csa-l@prairienet.org>; Medit-Plants <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 12:26 PM
Subject: Is There Spirituality Involved in your Relationship With Plants?


>Hi folks...
>
>I need some help.  I have been tapped to give a lecture titled "Our
>Spiritual
>Connection to Plants" and I've suddenly developed writer's block.
>
>Any and all are invited to take a second and tell me what those words
>mean to you.  Can you site any resources for me?  Anecdotal evidence?
>
>Please respond soon - I just am at a loss and I'm beginning to get VERY
>unspiritual about the whole ordeal.
>
>
>david king
>greenman@ucla.edu
>
>
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