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Greetings Precious Ones, A Chinese bamboo tree takes five years to grow. Everyday, it must be attended to by watering it and fertilizing the ground where it has been planted. It doesn’t break through the ground for years, often it takes five years before one sees a shoot sprouting upwards. After that, once it breaks through the ground, it may grow 90 -feet tall in five weeks! What you don’t see happening is what is taking place beneath the surface. Beneath the surface, a massive network of dense foundations has spread through the ground over time, preparing slowly but surely for what is to come, this very rapid growth the bamboo will experience from now on. The question is, did the bamboo tree grow 90 feet tall in five- weeks or in five- years? The answer is obvious, it grew 90 feet tall in five years. Some people would have no patience at all to wait for the bamboo tree to grow, yet many people do. And those that do have the patience to flower up beautifully, and what they touch has poetry, they have magnetism and authenticity that surpasses time. How are you flourishing day by day? Remember that it isn’t the doing but how it is done. Oftentimes, there is no reason to have a Why. For what reason should there be a Why? Life has no Why. Life is so magnificent and rich in its own way, and that alone, should be enough. What else is needed, but for the life be be lived in full awareness, presence, appreciating and witnessing its evanescence, its true beauty. How overwhelming one feels when waves of love emanate from ones heart, like a fragrant lotus flower? We know people of weak foundation, with lack in their heart of the nourishing love, immature from a life not fully experienced that go on accumulating habits and things, artificial like plastic flowers, passive aggressive that can’t seem to drop the prétentions. Life is to be lived moment to moment, fresh, new. Habits are the death of the heart. Habits take the juice out of life. Habits come from the head, the past, a repetition learned over time, a comfort zone. Destroy the habits. Let the fresh action, the dance, the art, the simple and natural way of just being present or the silence come out on its own, in total spontaneity and aliveness, as you watch it move through you. —Su Co Bao Co
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