The Uninvited Blossoms: How the Weeds Revealed the Whole.
How the dismissed and overlooked contain the whole of existence.
My pot was completely empty, or so it seemed. Placed on the terrace, it was exposed to the four elements, waiting. Soon, the damp earth began to vibrate with latent energy. The sun warmed it with golden rays, awakening the vital force hidden in every grain. The water irrigated it with sweetness, softening it so that life could sink its roots. The wind brought invisible pollen and seeds, gifts brought from afar to find a home. Without being sown, life had emerged. I should have thought more often of this magic when I tore the "weeds" from the ground, not recognizing the miracle contained within them.
This was the very essence of existence - infinite potential, ready to blossom even from nothingness. In the apparent emptiness of the pot was hidden a fullness of life, waiting to manifest itself at the perfect moment. And when the four elements harmoniously met, that force exploded into a myriad of colors.
Observing those sudden yet foreseen seedlings, I grasped an eternal truth: in everything, however small, the One is contained. The pot was the image of the cosmos, the life emerging from the void proof of the unnamed creative force, which lies hidden in every atom of existence. My little empty pot was a miniature universe, where the Absolute was reflected in the relative, and the relative flowed ceaselessly into the Absolute. And I was the silent witness of that timeless dance in which everything is born, everything is transformed, and everything is understood.
"He who knows this supreme wisdom, he becomes immortal. He sees the Self in all beings and all beings in the Self. He transcends sorrow and delusion and attains supreme bliss."
(Sama Veda)
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