SHACK 351 THE WILD

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They lose some of their form but not there essence. That's why they are not worried. 

Beautiful tees why are you so bare and shedding your leaves? Only to grow them again next season.

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I used to have this dream and tried it once.  I wanted to live in a forest, the sea nearby and the mountains at the back of an all wooden chalet, in order to live simply and quietly.

Now living in suburbia I realised something profound for me; what did nature bring to me?  It brought peace because of the natural sounds and quietness and it stopped the mind buzz, it also brought beauty in shapes, colour and ecological dovetailing and the sounds made me happy and were music to my ears.

I have a video of Shaolin monks who were on a world tour and when they came to London they visited Westminster Cathedral and they were meditating in the church and one of the monks said ‘Even the Buddha is here, the Buddha is everywhere’

To me now I have gone behind the forms of nature and am finding the spirit of nature, the dynamic yet peaceful free happy sizzling peace, brightness and aliveness, indeed the spirit of Life epitomised by the great beings who came to Earth to show humanity it is not the form, it is the energy, the spirit that form comes from, that is the point.  This is what I feel the monk meant and it is everywhere and described in many names; Buddha, Christ, Cosmic Consciousness and so on. I am feeling this more often now.

Form perishes, the life force does not ‘so if you see the Buddha coming down the road, cut his head off, destroy him’ is an old Buddhist saying from the Zen Tradition. If you worship the form it will perish and you with it. One cannot worship a non form, one can only celebrate when one experiences that invisible energy that is formless and that is who we are.

So where is this Life Force, the essence of nature and the Universe, in fact nature is but part of the Universe and nay not even part because all life is one seamless whole in form and spirit, it is only seen as separate because the mind sees parts and compartmentalises it and in linear sequential units.

Life is in the city, nature, concrete skyscrapers, if one has the quiet mind and catches the breeze of life and there is stillness in the cacophony of traffic, of shouting youngsters, blaring radios and TV, loud motorbikes and yet nothing is as loud as the internal dialogue and endless mind chatter.

So one does not need to be necessarily in nature to feel the essence of nature that is the life force, but it helps.

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