Planting Seeds

I’m all about planting Seeds!

With my index finger halfway into some soil of my garden, I realized
the sheer joy of putting a small seed into the ground. It’s an
investment and a discovery of unpredictability and of course, growth!
With some care, awareness and discipline, planting a seed can teach
you a lot of things that branch out into other aspects of your life. A
real integration of action starting from the earth itself.

Of course you can plant actual seeds, but the metaphorical and
metaphysical aspects of planting seeds seems to have a reverberant and
transcendent quality that echoes into the very richness of life
itself. You plant seeds with the intention of growing some type of
plant. From that plant, one can harvest food, medicine or merely groom
it to be a beautiful and resilient flower that takes your attention
and pleases the eye. So we can look at the process of the seed and see
how it could translate to the way we interact with the world around
us. Hence, you can plant actual seeds and metaphorical seeds in your
daily life.

How do you tend your garden? Both inside, outside and the one you
might refer to as your mind.

The planting of seeds doesn’t take a monster amount of effort to plant
and maintain. When you engage in the act of planting seeds, you are
allowing for some unknown potential to manifest in the future.
Sometimes the outcomes of planting seeds will provide more or less of
what you thought would happen. It’s that tricky thorny bush of
expectation. So focused on means to ends and concrete results that we
forget to truly appreciate the process and spontaneity of action!

Wrestling with Uncertainty, but Dancing with Potential.
Planting seeds is much akin to trusting the journey and process and
less about the overall destination. For a tree will die and return
back to the earth and allow for the way of more seeds of potential.

Think of planting seeds and planting ideas as one of the same thing.
We have some much potential to plant vibrant seeds of potentiality
within the blossoming minds of others. Think about it. When a thought
pops in brain from some type of external stimuli or a randomly
accessed memory, what happens? Does it spiral into a new a whole new
set of thoughts and images? Rarely do we ever just let a singular
thought go into the wind and away from our consciousness so quickly.
It’s the cyclical and very compulsory nature of thought. Thought
begets thought and so on. So think of these chains of thoughts as a
type of vine that was once a small, shiny and compact seed. It was
planted by something. Something from the past or something that
triggered a memory. Most of the time, involuntary. Unconscious. Most
of the times unaware from the crevices it has been called from.

You could almost think of some of these intrusive and “bad” thoughts
as weed that can be carefully pulled to make room for the growth of
new ideas, spaces and realizations.

Now that we can see the inner workings of thoughts and thought based
systems, we can see how they can grow into different forms. Sometimes
creating a rather peculiarly beautiful thought tree or a Thought
Forest wrought with many emotions and possibilities! So consciousness
and us being conscious of how our thoughts work and how they influence
our ACTIONS and BEHAVIORS is a big thing in discovering how we can
plant seeds that could potentially create how we see the world, others
and ourselves.

So these thoughts can sometimes transform into new budding flowers
that we call IDEAS! The lightbulb moment of efficacious whim or
withering. So these ideas can become very USEFUL seeds, but a lot of
it depends how we plant and care for these idea seeds. Do we want to
plant these seeds and see how they grow or do we want to discard these
seeds and put them in a dark place for them to “possibly” be planted
later? This is where the potential factor can play a key role. The
potential to plant and then nurture the growth of our own ideas.

T O   N U R T U R E

Of course there are many variant factors associated with the planting
of seeds. Both literally and figuratively. The environment is a big
factor. The inherent quality and potentiality of the seed is also
another BIG factor. The quality of the dirt and/or the mind must be
taken into consideration. If we plant seeds in a very dry and
infertile type of landscape whether it be talking to a group of people
or getting our hands first in the garden, we are not opening ourselves
up to very affirming and proliferating results. The How you plant the
seed(s) and the Why are both important factors in determining how the
seed(s) will grow.

Now that you have planted seeds, you allow yourself to see new
opportunities in front of you that would probably not see before. A
synchronous manifestation of conscious spontaneous delight! Think
about it for a second. Let’s say you plant the seed of wanting to look
for a new place to live. Beforehand, you may have skipped over the
many For Rent signs on your way to your job or household. When you
planted the seed or seeds of the intention of trying to look for a new
humble abode, you have allowed your consciousness to orient itself
towards that intention. Like a magnetic attraction. Soon your eyes
will delight in the garden of potential that you have brought into
being.

Seeds of Manifestation. Seeds of Intention. Leads to a bush of New Invention.

It reminds of that classic saying, “You reap what you sow”. You get
what you plant. You get back what you put in. You give for the sake of
giving and intention of sustaining, maintaining and fostering
wonderful growth!

When a plant or an idea starts to take momentous growth, it takes a
keen eye and a little bit of tender loving care to keep it growing and
flourishing in the right direction. It is so interesting to me when I
hear people tout the expression of the “ Fruit of our Labor”. I think
the metaphorical makeup of that statement rings true with what I am
trying to get at with this whole planting seeds concept. If a tree is
planted in a fertile and conducive environment and is pruned and
groomed to produce juicy and sweet fruit, then it can lead to the
satisfaction of taste buds and the proliferation of more delicious
fruit bearing trees. The eternal relationship of cause and effect that
reverberates from a small point into an eternity of potential.

Seed to Tree to Fruit to Seed to Trees to Forest to a Perpetual Feed.

Just think of how it amazing it is to think that big forests have
started from small little seeds. With the fostering of the environment
around them, they became giants and provided life and shelter for many
other animals. An ecosystem of life, death and sustainability. The
marriage of fertility, balance and the melding with what is that
allows a seed to erupt into the light from darkness. Planting seeds
implies the act of awareness to watch them grow without trying too
hard to control the outcomes. To simply let it be. To let it reach
towards the sun in its own pace. It’s own rhythm. It’s own intention.
The attention to your intentions will surely leave a future forest of
garden brimming with new and unknown possibilities.

To Observe. To Maintain. To care for with a sense of grace. To sit
still and to grow. At a slow pace with bursts of momentous space.

The seeds that do not erupt from the dark nutrient mass, shall compost
back into the natural order of things. Or maybe it might not be the
seeds time to grow. It might not have the right conditions from which
it can spread its stalks and branches. One cannot force this delicate
process. What were the conditions when the seeds were planted? What
has the weather been like? Have you done all you could have done with
what you had at the time! Aha! Only so much in your control. Why try
to waste so much time worrying about the sprouting of seeds. In a good
time, there will be good time.