March 22nd, 2008
Welcoming Change - A Lesson From Nature
Here in Las Vegas the weather is beginning to warm up. We are seeing signs of Spring and I am welcoming the change.
In a recent conversation, a dear friend of mine said to me ‘the roots of a tree do not question why the leaves above it fall. they just do. and such is the way.’
Change is a part of life. This viewpoint (called parinamavada) is a fundamental teaching of yoga.
It is the nature of the tree to know that old leaves must fall in order for new leaves to blossom and so it does not question. It is we that want things to be or stay a certain way, and when they do not, we resist. We cling to those leaves even as they wither and die, instead of letting them go.
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