Intro
As you walk on the streets, what do you see?
In the previous post, I briefly introduced the inner garden concept, now I will be explaining on how it correlates and can be applied with our daily life, for an more harmonized and stress free routine.
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Applying "The inner garden concept" on daily life.
Well nobody said it was easy to be an human, and if its easy for you, you are just too comfortable on your own small world. Walking on the streets and appreciating all of the few plants we can see is equal to nourishing your soul, from the dirt we came, to the dirt we will return, respecting the dirt and everything that grows from it is to respect ourselves.
If your mental walls are too fortified you must have something beautiful to hide from the greedy people, even if you did not cultivate any form of good concept and perspective in your mind, and all that you see inside is junk, do not forget that even in the junkyard there might be blooming flowers. There will be envious people trying to feed from our peace, faking friendship without an apparent reason else than pure egocentrism, those people have bitter hearts, the poison of the world corrupted their beings, its part of the entropy and its complexity, we do not exactly fight it back.
The real peace is a thing that people must pursuit, many will think they already have it, think they can die in peace already and that it will be fine based on their religious perspective, but considering an more biological approach, lets suppose before joining the entropy ourselves, there will be pure emptiness, how would you deal with it?
No matter what you believe for the after death, lets suppose you will be alone on your own head, without anywhere to run or hide from your own errors and misconceptions, would you do truly fine or would you get scared from your own dirtiness? To be honest, I would be really scared myself, of my own inside, at least until I learned how to extract good things from bad things. It is like panning for gold, there will be a lot of land to analyse, and sometimes we just need to know how and where to look for the small amounts of gold that said land may hold. Further after identifying the gold, you just need to know a few techniques to extract something good of the apparently worthless land. Gold is quite valuable, but for the mind, the gold is the lessons learnt, the good concepts that will root in who you are, the almost magical alchemy of turning any form of hard event into solid evolution. What was the worst event of your life? what did you learn from it?
For whose never learn anything, never had seen past the pain, its very unfortunate to say but there will be an perpetual cycle for it to happen again and again, until you either decide to break the pain into pieces and face their meanings, or die from stacking up stress in form of mental poison.
As "nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed", be aware that burying bad thoughts inside you, and not transforming it in something good yourself, will only allow for it to become worse, eventually evolving and spreading from the deepest of you mental space, to the worst of the physical symptoms. Just like mold, we do not perceive its spores slowly growing in our food until they dominated it enough to finally be visible, you can remove superficially what you see to be wrong, but the fungus will still be there, possibly full of toxins.
If you feel anxious, insomniac, restless anyhow, depressed, or in psychological pain of any form or shape, then you will see benefits on finally resolving that old personal problem that you never truly had the courage to face. Sometimes we just need to stare at the abyss without judging anything. The seemingly unbeatable darkness might reveal something to us, if it sees no fear on our eyes, but curiosity.
We justify those that died on oceans of stress by saying its part of the modern life, but how better are we doing? what are we learning with the errors of the others? People whose suffered silently for a whole life, relaying on alcohol or similar arguable hard drugs, people that spread their own chaos to those around them, what did they do wrong else than being misguided?
Cultivating.
On gardening, we take many organic material that is basically trash to be dumped for some smaller perspectives, in fertile soil, full of nutrients.
We compost what people dump daily, into many different macro and micro nutrients that our plants love so much. They do great on absorbing what the microorganisms can offer for them, they are resilient and do not waste time crying out of their lost leafs, they simply try to go around it, always with thriving stuck into their DNA, why should we be different?
Our problems might seem way more important and hard to fix than a plant being eaten by predators, but many different plants together will protect each other from different forms of pests and predators, creating an safe environment for their cycle to properly happen. Plants will have friends, friends that truly synergizes, summing many different variables for each other without subtracting from their neighbor roots. How should we compare to them? they have no consciousness, we do. Surely many plants will not be great with other species, but nobody said they must allow for others to thrive stepping on them. The plants will compete sometimes for the soil or for the sunlight, we do this kind of stuff as well, it is natural to act like that, but not without an good reason.
Plants are just like thoughts, concepts and abstractions, if you do not water it, it will dry, if you do not fertilize, it will starve, but if you take proper care of it, eventually you will be rewarded with many beautiful and aromatic flowers and fruits. To be the garden keeper of your own mind, is like to program your own world, we do not control what reaches our perception, but we control what we do and how we react for each of those stimulus.
Every time you get the opportunity to admire the smaller forms of life, do it. The ants with all of their programmed organisms to form anthills, the birds flying 100% on their instincts, the plants transforming dead matter in many different forms of organic medicine, both for the body and for the soul.
Conclusion
Here I try to explain how allowing inner changes to happen and changing the tunnel-vision perspective into an broader perspective will impact on what we are, and on how the world is pure chaos and how yet, we should smile and be thankful for something bigger to happen. It will be hard, as climate change is not our only current problem, even if it sounds like the main problem and the worst to deal with, we all hold personal problems, wrong perspectives on people that poison us, maybe an health issue or just an really hard environment to be alive in. Does not really matter, the suffering is an universal language that will have many paths leading to it.
Being strong enough to accept the karma and even stronger to transform it in something good is vital, its hard and pretty much an paradox by itself, but its possible with the right level of mindfulness, we just need to try and understand what a given problem truly means, not egocentrically, thinking its the end, and you do not deserve it, but trying to find the answer on why you might "deserve" it, always thinking bigger and on what it will serve for the future you. Its your choice to filter the poison and grow an tolerance on it, or to keep on regrinding the pain from touching the poisonous thorns. Next time just try to understand what thorn you touched and what the substance poisoning you is, try to understand its effects on the body and go as deep as possible on overcoming an past error. Next time you will even help others to stay away from the thorns of life, if they allow it, if they plant and take care of the saplings gifted by you.