Did you hear the one about......
The seed that refused to leave the pod?
The baby who refused to leave the womb?
The 40-year-old who refused to leave kindergarten?
How many people do you know who've done 7 years of growing
And are just repeating that over and over again?
I know people like that, too;
In some ways, I'm one of them.
There are some things I do over and again,
Hoping that one day I'll get a different result.
The insanity of ego!
A seed that forgets its purpose
Refuses to drop to the ground and die
So that it might transform and grow into something far more beautiful
And flourish into its inherent destiny.
Dead seed is good only for chook food.
Our human mission, should we choose to accept it,
Is to find the right environment (starting from where we are is good),
Die to our seed-iness,
And be reborn.
I was once an observer at a protracted series of trials and hearings involving people I love dearly. Although it was a civil proceeding, I saw imprisonment all around; the litigants were all swathed in a protective coating of "rightness" that had become a prison of solitary confinement for each of them. Nobody won.
The seed that has come to love its seediness
Denies the possibility that it carries within its being;
It says "No" to life.
That is its "right".
Being human is being a seed
Whose purpose is to find the right soil,
(And if you're reading this, you've already found it!)
Cede its seed-ness,
Get on with the business of growing
And explore its potential. If you ain't growing, you're dying.
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