Garden Parables - philosophy of Conscious Evolution

Welcome to the Gardener's Parables - a distillation of thoughts of a local gardener

When water arrives fresh in the form of rain, it is pure and crystal clear. Never has there been a time that water existed that it wasn't H₂0. (Water is water no matter how you look at it!) The water, like our spirit, begins its journey pure and clean. Then it goes through its many travels, down the mountainsides and through cities and sewer systems, and winds up looking quite different, but it is still H₂0.

Often the water appears very unappealing, because of what it has absorbed while on its journey. Yet even in the bottom of a swamp, it is still H₂0; it only needs to evaporate to become recognizable again. And the evaporation is like evolving beyond our negativity, or (for those who refuse to do so in life), physically dying.

Either way, eventually we return to our original pure state...beautiful and true to our original form.

The fatal human condition is being both ignorant and close minded!

For those who garden, we quickly learn that when the plants are not doing well, they're not getting what they need. Our job is to recognize what it is that they need and provide it. If we don't take care of it, the plants are going to shrivel and die, or become overgrown with weeds.

This life could be compared to our garden. In this analogy, the plot of land is your life and in the "soil" we nurture and grow our awareness. We are the caretakers; we make the rows and plant the seeds for the desirable fruits. Of course, we don't plant the weeds, but they tend to come up anyway. :-) The cultivated plant is always more delicate -- and more desirable! If we don't nurture the plants and discourage the weeds, we will soon discover that the weeds have taken over.

The weeds are like the errors in our own thoughts - which lead to errors in behavior. The errors choke out the Truth, the growing enlightenment, and cause it to be stunted and suffer. So a good gardener will weed out the errors and do everything possible to nurture the plant.

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