KNOWLEDGE ABOUT PROBLEMS

                                         ILLUSIONS OF THE PROBLEMS

 

      IT FEELS AS IF A HEAVY BURDEN HAS BEEN LIFTED. A SENSE OF LIGHTNESS. I FEEL CLEAR. BUT MY PROBLEMS ARE STILL THERE WAITING FOR ME, AREN'T THEY? THEY HAVEN'T BEEN SOLVED. AM I NOT JUST TEMPORARILY EVADING THEM?

       IF YOU FOUND YOURSELF IN PARADISE, IT WOULDN'T BE LONG BEFORE YOUR MIND WOULD SAY "YES, BUT ,,," ULTIMATE, THIS IS NOT ABOUT SOLVING YOUR PROBLEMS. IT'S ABOUTREALIZING THAT THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS. ONLY SITUATIONS-TO BE DEALT WITH NOW, OR TO BE LEFT ALONE AND ACCEPTED AS PART OF THE "ISNESS" OF THE PRESENT MOMENT UNTIL THEY CHANGE OR CAN BE DEALT WITH. PROBLEMS ARE MIND-MADE AND NEED TIME TO SURVIVE, THEY CANNOT SURVIVE IN THE ACTUALITY OF THE NOW.

     FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON THE NOW AND TELL ME WHAT PROBLEMS YOU HAVE AT THIS MOMENT.

    ALL NEGATIVITY IS CAUSED BY AN ACCUMULATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TIME AND DENIAL OF THE PRESENT. UNEASE, ANXIETY, TENTION, STRESS, WORRY- ALL FORMS OF FEAR- ARE CAUSED BY TOO MUCH FUTURE, AND NOT ENOUGH PRESENCE. GUILT, REGRET, RESENTMENT, GRIEVANCE, SADNESS,BITTERNESS, AND ALL FORMA OF NONFORGIVENESS ARE CAUSED BY TOO MUCH PAST, AND NOT ENOUGH PRESENCE.

      MOST PEOPLE FIND IT DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE THAT A STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS TOTALLY FREE OF ALL NEGATIVITY IS POSSIBLE. AND YET THIS IS THE LIBERATED STATE OF WHICH ALL SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS POINT. IT IS THE PROMISE OF SALVATION, NOT IN AN ILLUSORY FUTURE BUT THE RIGHT HERE AND NOW.

      YOU MAY FIND IT HARD TO RECOGNIZE THAT TIME IS THE CAUSE OF YOUR SUFFERING OR YOUR PROBLEMS,YOU BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE CAUSED BY SPECIFIC SITUATIONS IN YOUR LIFE, AND SEEN FROM A CONVENTIONAL VIEWPOINT, THIS IS TRUE. BUT UNTIL YOU HAVE DEALT WITH THE BASIC PROBLEM- MAKING DYSFUNCTION OF THE MIND- ITS ATTACHMENT TO PAST AND FUTURE AND DENIAL OF THE NOW- PROBLEMS ARE ACTUALLY INTERCHANGEABLE. IF ALL YOUR PROBLEMS OR PERCEIVED CAUSES OF SUFFERING OR UNHAPPINESS WERE MIRACULOUSLY REMOVED FOR YOU TODAY, BUT YOU HAD NOT BECOME MORE PRESENT, MORE CONSCIOUS, YOU WOULD SOON FIND YOURSELF WITH A SIMILAR SET OF PROBLEMS OR CAUSES OF SUFFERING, LIKE A SHADOW THAT FOLLOWS YOU WHEREVER YOU GO. ULTIMATELY, THERE IS ONE PROBLEM, THE TIME BOUND MIND ITSELF.

      I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I COULD EVER REACH A POINT WHERE I AM COMPLETELY FREE OF MY PROBLEMS.

      YOU ARE RIGHT. YOU CAN NEVER REACH THAT POINT BECAUSE YOU ARE AT THAT POINT NOW.

     THERE IS NO SALVATION IN TIME. YOU CANNOT BE FREE IN THE FUTURE. PRESENCE IS THE KEY TO FREEDOM,SO YOU CAN ONLY BE FREE NOW. 

   

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND INNER PEACE

                                        HAPPINESS AND INNER PEACE

         IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND INNER PEACE?

       YES. HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON CONDITIONS BEING PERCEIVED AS POSITIVE, INNER PEACE DOES NOT.

     IS IT NOT POSSIBLE TO ATTRACT ONLY POSITIVE CONDITIONS INTO OUR LIFE? IF OUR ATTITUDE AND OUR THINKING ARE ALWAYS POSITIVE, WE WOULD MANIFEST ONLY POSITIVE EVENTS AND SITUATIONS, WOULD'T WE?

    DO YOU TRULY KNOW WHAT IS POSITIVE AND WHAT IS NEGATIVE? DO YOU HAVE THE TOTAL PICTURE? THERE HAVE BEEN MANY PEOPLE FOR WHOM LIMITATION, FAILURE, LOSS, ILLNESS, OR PAIN IN WHTEVER FORM TURNED OUT TO BE THEIR GREATEST TEACHER. IT TAUGHT THEM TO LET GO OF FALSE SELF-IMAGES AND SUPERFICIAL EGO- DICTATED GOALS AND DESIRES. IT GAVE THEM DEPTH, HUMILITY, AND COMPASSION. IT MADE THEM MORE REAL.

    WHENEVER ANYTHING NEGATIVE HAPPENS TO YOU, THERE IS A DEEP LESSON CONCEALED WITHIN IT, ALTHOUGH YOU MAY NOT SEE IT AT THE TIME. EVEN A BRIEF ILLNESS OR AN ACCIDENT CAN SHOW YOU WHAT IS REAL AND UNREAL IN YOUR LIFE, WHAT ULTIMATELY MATTERS AND WHAT DOESN'T.

     SEEN FROM A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE, CONDITIONS ARE ALWAYS POSITIVE. TO BE MORE PRECISE, THEY ARE NEITHER POSITIVE NOR NEGATIVE. THEY ARE AS THEY ARE. AND WHEN YOU LIVE IN COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE OF WHAT IS WHICH IS THE ONLY SANE WAY TO LIVE- THERE IS NO "GOOD" OR "BAD" IN YOUR LIFE ANYMORE. THERE IS ONLY A HIGHER GOOD- WHICH INCLUDED THE "BAD". SEEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE MIND, HOWEVER, THER IS GOOD, BAD, LIKE - DISLIKE, LOVE - HATE. HENCE, IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS, IT IS SAID THAT ADAM AND EVE WERE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO DWELL IN "PARADISE" WHEN THEY ATE OF THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL.

                            

            WHAT IF IT IS A SITUATION THAT I DO SOMETHING ABOUT? HOW CAN I ALLOW IT TO BE AND CHANGE IT AT THE SAME TIME?

      DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO. IN THE MEANTIME, ACCEPT WHAT IS , SINCE MIND AND RESISTENCE AS SYNONNYMOUS, ACCEPTANCE IMMEDIATELY FREES YOU FROM MIND DOMINANCE AND THUS RECONNECTS YOU WITH BEING. AS A RESULT, THE USUAL EGO MOTIVATIONS FOR "DOING"- FEAR, GREED, CONTROL, DEFENDING OR FEEDING THE FALSE SENSE OF SELF- WILL CEASE TO OPERATE. AS INTELLIGENCE MUCH GREATER THAN THE MIND IS NOW IN CHARGE, AND SO A DIFFERENT QUALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS WILL FLOW INTO YOUR DOING.

      ACCEPT WHATEVER COMES TO YOU WOVEN IN THE PATTERN OF YOUR DESTINY, FOR WHAT COULD MORE APTLY FIT YOUR NEEDS? THIS WAS WRITTEN 2000 YEARS AGO BY MARCUS AURELIUS, ONE OF THOSE EXCEEDINGLY RARE HUMANS WHO PASSESSED WORLDLY POWER AS WELL AS WISDOM.

     IT SEEMS THAT MOST PEOPLE NEED TO EXPERIENCE A GREAT DEAL OF SUFFERING BEFORE THEY WILL RELINQUISH RESISTENCE AND ACCEPT- BEFORE THEY WILL FORGIVE, AS SOON AS THEY DO, ONE OF THE GREATEST MIRACLES HAPPENS. THE AWAKENING OF BEING-CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH WHAT APPEARS AS EVIL, THE TRANSMUTATION OF SUFFERING INTO INNER PEACE. THE ULTIMATE EFFECT OF THE EVIL AND SUFFERING IN THE WORLD IS THAT IT WILL FORCE HUMANS INTO REALIZING WHO THEY ARE BEYOND NAME AND FORM. THUS, WHAT WE PERCEIVE AS EVIL FROM OUR LIMITED PERSPECTIVE IS ACTUALLY PART OF THE HIGHER GOOD THAT HAS NO OPPOSITE. THIS, HOWEVER DOES NOT BECOME TRUE FOR YOU EXCEPT THROUGH FORGIVENESS. UNTILL THAT HAPPENS, EVIL HAS NOT BEEN REDEEMED AND THEREFORE REMAINS EVIL.

        WHOEVER OR WHATEVER ENTERS THAT FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS WILL BE AFFECTED BY IT, SIMETIMES VISIBLY AND IMMEDIATELY, SOMETIMES AT DEEPER LEVELS WITH VISIBLE CHANGES APPEARING AT A LATER TIME. YOU DISSOLVE DISCORD, HEAL PAIN, DISPEL INCONSCIOUSNESS- WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING- SIMPLY BY BEING AND HOLDING THAT FREQUENCY OF INTENSE PRESENCE. 

    

 

HISTORY OF PLANTS

                                                         JUICY FRUIT

             SOME SEEDS GROW INSIDE FRUIT, BERRIES AND NUTS. THESE SEEDS ARE SPREAD BY BIRDS AND ANIMALS. WHEN BIRDS EAT FRUIT AND BERRIES, THEY EAT THE SEEDS TOO. THEY FLY AWAY AND THE SEEDS ARE SPREAD IN THEIR DROPPINGS. THERE ARE ABOUT BLUEBERRY. CHIPMUNKS EAT FRUIT AND NUTS. THEY TAKE THEIR FOOD INTO THEIR BURROWS TO EAT. THE SEEDS ARE SPREAD IN THEIR DROPPINGS. SQUIRRELS OFTEN BURY NUTS IN THE GROUND TO EAT LATER. THEN THEY FORGET ABOUT THEM AND THE SEEDS START TO GROW.

                                                                    NEW PLANTS

     SOME PLANTS HAVE SPECIAL WAYS TO MAKE NEW PLANTS.  A SHOOT CALLED A RUNNER GROWS OUT SIDEWAYS FROM A STRAWBERRY PLANT. WHEN IT TOUCHES THE GROUND IT GROWS ROOTS. A NEW PLANT GROWS FROM THE ROOTS AND THE RUNNER ROTS AWAY. A SMALL, NEW BULB GROWS ON THE SIDE OF A DAFFODIL BULB.ONLY ONE OR TWO FLOWERS GROW FROM EACH DAFFODIL BULD. THE NEW BULB GROWS BIGGER AND THE TWO BULBS SPLIT APART. 

                                                               HOT DESERTS

   SOME DESERT PLANTS DON'T GROW WHILE THE SOIL IS DRY, BUT THEIR SEEDS LIE IN THE GROUND. AFTER RAIN, THE SEEDS GROW QUICKLY INTO FLOWERS. THE FLOWERS MAKE SEEDS AND THEN DIE. THE NEW SEEDS WILL GROW WHEN IT RAINS AGAIN. 

OLD MAN CACTUS PLANTS ARE COVERED IN WOOLLY HAIR TO SHADE THEM FROM THE SUN

    WHEN IT IS DRY THE LEAVES FALL OFF AND OCOTILLO PLANT. NEW LEAVES WILL GROW AGAIN AFTER IT HAS RAINED. ALOE PLANTS STORE WATER INSIDE THEIR THICK, SPIKY LEAVES. 

                                                             WATER PLANTS

          SOME PLANTS GROW IN PONDS AND LAKES. MANY HAVE ROOTS WHICH GROW ON THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE. SOME WATER PLANTS HAVE ROOTS WHICH FLOAT IN WATER. A WATER LILY'S FLOWERS FLOAT ON THE SURFACE, SO THAT INSECTS CAN REACH THE POLLEN. 

  MOST WATER PLANTS DON'T GROW IN RIVERS, BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE WASHED AWAY.

    WATER LILIES HAVE FLAT LEAVES WITH A WAXY SURFACE. THIS HELPS THEM TO FLOAT. THEY DON'T SINK EVEN IF A FROG SITS ON THEM.

                                                              KLLLER PLANTS

      SOME PLANTS CATCH INSECTS AND TURN THEM INTO JUICE, WHICH THEY SOAK UP. A FLY LANDS IN A VENUS FLYTRAP'S SPIKY LEAVES. THE TRAP SNAPS SHUT AND THE FLY SLOWLY ROTS INSIDE. SUNDREW PLANTS HAVE STICKY HAIRS WHICH TRAP INSECTS. PITCHER PLANTS HAVE LEAVES WHICH LOOK LIKE CUPS AND ARE FILLEW WITH WATER. THERE IS SOME NECTAR ON THE RIM. ANTS CRAWL INTO PITCHER PLANTS TO LOOK FOR MORE NECTAR. 

MONKEYS LIKE TO PICK PITCHER PLANTS AND DRINK THE WATER INSIDE.

IRCHIDS, LIKE THIS ONE, GROW IN RAINFORESTS. THEY ATTRACT INSECTS WITH THEIR BRIGHT PETALS

        HERE ARE SOME OF THE WORDS IN UNDER YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW, WHAT THEY MEAN

      

    SEED           -  A HARD SHELL WITH A YOUNG PLANT INSIDE.

   SEED POD - THE PART OF A FLOWER WHERE THE SEEDS GROW.

  BULB          - SPECIAL UNDERGROUND LEAVES WHERE SOME PLANTS STORE THEIR                                   FOOD

  STAMENS   - LONG TUBES IN THE MIDDLE OF A FLOWER WHERE POLLEN IS MADE.

  POLLEN      - A POWDER WHICH PLANTS SWAP WITH OTHER PLANTS TO MAKE SEEDS

  NECTAR     - A SWEET JUICE INSIDE FLOWERS WHICH ANIMALS, BIRDS AND INSECTS DRINK.

 RUNNER     - A SPECIAL STEM WHICH GROWS OUT SIDEWAYS FROM SOME PLANTS.

    

WAKE UP WITH SUCCESS

                                             READ THIS POSITIVE LINES 

    1. WITH LOVE THERE IS NO PAINFUL REACTION, LOVE ONLY BRINGS A REACTION OF BLISS, IF IT DOES NOT, IT IS NOT LOVE, IT IS MISTAKING SOMETHING ELSE FOR LOVE, SWAMI VIVEKANANDA.

    2. DO NOT SPEND YOUR ENERGY IN TALKING, BUT MEDITATE IN SILENCE, AND DO NOT LET THE RUSH OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD DISTURB YOU. WHEN YOUR MIND IS IN THE HIGHEST STATE, YOU ARE UNCONSCIOUS OF IT.

   3. SO NEVER MIND THESE FAILURES, THESE LITTLE BACKSLIDINGS. HOLD THE IDEAL A  THOUSAND TIMES, AND IF YOU FAIL A THOUSAND TIMES, MAKE THE ATTEMPT ONCE MORE... THERE IS INFINITE LIFE BEFORE THE SOUL. TAKE YOUR TIME AND YOU WILL ACHIEVE YOUR END.

  4. ABOVE ALL, BEWARE OF COMPROMISES, HOLD ON TO YOUR OWN PRINCIPLES IN WEAL OR WOE AND NEVER ADJUST THEM TO OTHERS FADS, THROUGH THE GREED OF GETTING SUPPORTERS.

  5. PERSEVERANCE, TREMENDOUS WILL. I WILL DRINK THE OCEAN, SAY THE PRESEVERING SOUL, AT MY WILL MOUNTAINS WILL CRUMBLE UP, HAVE THAT SORT OF ENERGY, THAT SORT OF WILL, WORK HARD, AND YOU WILL REACH THE GOAL.

  6. RAJA- YOGA IS THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION, THE RATIONALE OF ALL WORSHIP, ALL PRAYERS, FORMS, CEREMONIES, AND MIRACLES.

  7. EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE UP HIS OWN IDEAL AND ENDEAVOUR TO ACCOMPLISH IT. THAT IS A SURER WAY OF PROGRESS THAN TAKING UP OTHER MEN'S IDEAL, WHICH HE CAN NEVER HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.

  8. SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY WE ARE TO TRAIN OURSELVES. IT IS NO JOKE- NOT A QUESTION OF A DAY, OR YEARS, OR MAY BE OF BIRTHS. NEVER MIND! THE PULL MUST GO ON. INCH BY INCH WE WILL GAIN GROUND. WE WILL BEGIN TO FEEL AND GET REAL POSSESIONS, WHICH NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY FROM US- THE WEALTH THAT NO MAN CAN TAKE, THE WEALTH THAT NOBODY CAN DESTROY, THE JOY THAT NO MISERY CAN HURT ANY MORE.

  9. RELIGION CAN BE REALISED. ARE YOU READY? DO YOU WANT? YOU WILL GET THE REALISATION IF YOU DO , AND THEN YOU WILL BE TRULY RELIGIOUS. UNTILL YOU HAVE ATTINED REALISATION THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOU AND ATHEISTS. THE ATHEISTS ARE SINCERE, BUT THE MAN WHO SAYS THAT HE BELIEVES IN RELIGION AND NEVER ATTEMPTS TO REALISE IT IS NOT SINCERE.

  10. LIFE IS ITSELF RELIGION.

  11. IF YOU WANT THE REWARD, YOU MUST ALSO HAVE THE PUNISHMENT, THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT OF THE PUNISHMENT IS TO GIVE UP THE REWARD.

  12. EXISTENCE CAN NEVER BE NON-EXISTENCE NEITHER CAN NON-EXESTENCE EVER BECOME EXISTENCE... KNOW, THEREFORE, THAT WHICH PERVADES ALL THIS INIVERSE IS WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END. IT IS UNCHANGEABLE. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE UNIVERSE THAT CAN CHANGE ( THE CHANGELESS). THOUGH THIS BODY HAS ITS BEGINNING AND END, THE DWELLER IN THE BODY IS INFINITE AND WITHOUT END.

 13. YOU MAY SIT DOWN AND LISTEN TO ME BY THE HOUR EVERY DAY, BUT IF YOU DO NOT PRACTICE, YOU WILL NOT GET ONE STEP FURTHER. IT ALL DEPENDS ON PRACTICE.

  14. BY ALL MEANS MAKE A START- EVEN IF IT'S FOR THE WRONG REASON.

  15. THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE WE CANNOT SEE, BECAUSE ITS SURFACE IS COVERED WITH RIPPLES. IT IS ONLY POSSIBLE FOR US TO CATCH A GLIMPSE OF THE BOTTOM, WHEN THE RIPPLES HAVE SUBSIDED, AND THE WATER IS CALM.

THE SILENCE

                                              LIKE GOD AS SILENCE

 

        ARE THERE ANY OTHER PORTALS APART FROM THOSE YOU JUST MENTIONED?

       YES, THERE ARE. THE UNMANIFESTED IS NOT SEPERATE FROM THE MANIFESTED. IT PERVADES THIS WORLD, BUT IT IS SO WELL DISGUESED THAT ALMOST EVERYBODY MISSES IT COMPLETELY. IF YOU KNOW WHERE TO LOOK, YOU'LL FIND IT EVERYWHERE. A PORTAL OPENS UP EVERY MOMENT.

      DO YOU HEAR THAT DOG BARKING IN THE DISTANCE? OR THAT CAR PASSING BY? LISTEN CAREFULLY. CAN YOU FEEL THE PRESENCE OF THE UNMANIFESTED IN THAT? YOU CAN? LOOK FOR IT IN THE SILENCE OUT OF WHICH THE SOUNDS COME AND INTO WHICH THEY RETURN. PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE SILENCE THAN TO THE SOUNDS. PAYING ATTENTION TO OUTER SILENCE CREATES INNER SILENCE, THE MIND BECOMES STILL. A PORTAL IS OPENING UP.

       EVERY  SOUND IS BORN OUT OF SILENCE, DIES BACK INTO SILENCE, AND DURING ITS LIFE SPAN IS SURROUNDED BY SILENCE. SILENCE ENABLES THE SOUND TO BE. IT IS AN INTRINSIC BUT UNMANIFESTED PART OF EVERY SOUND, EVERY MUSICAL NOTE, EVERY SONG, EVERY WORD. THE UNMANIFESTED IS PRESENT IN THIS WORD AS SILENCE. THIS IS WHY IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS SO LIKE GOD AS SILENCE. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PAY ATTENTION TO IT. EVEN DURING A CONVERSATION, BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE GAPS BETWEEN WORDS, THE BRIEF SILENT INTERVALS BETWEEN SENTENCES. AS YOU DO THAT, THE DIMENSION OF STILLNESS GROWS WITHIN YOU, YOU CANNOT PAY ATTENTION TO SILENCE WITHOUT SIMULTANEOUSLY BECOMING STILL WITHIN. SILENCE WITHOUT, STILLNESS WITHIN. YOU HAVE ENTERED THE UNMANIFESTED.

  

PLEASE TRY IT NOW

                                                           TRY NOW

          PLEASE TRY IT NOW. YOU MAY FIND IT HELPFUL TO CLOSE YOUR EYES FOR THIS PRACTISE. LATER ON, WHEN BEING IN THE BODY, HAS BECOME NATURAL AND EASY, THIS WILL NO LONGER BE NECESSARY. DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION INTO TE BODY, FEEL IT FROM WHITHIN. IS IT ALIVE? IS THERE LIFE IN YOUR HANDS, ARMS, LEGS, AND FEET- IN YOUR ABDOMEN, YOUR CHEST? CAN YOU FEEL THE SUBTLE ENERGY FIELD THAT PERVADES THE ENTIRE BODY AND GIVES VIBRANT LIFE TO EVERY ORGAN AND EVERY CELL? CAN YOU FEEL IT SIMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL PARTS OF THE BODY AS A SINGLE FIELD OF ENERGY? KEEP FOCUSING ON THE FEELING OF YOUR INNER BODY FOR A FEW MOMENTS. DO NOT START TO THINK ABOUT IT. FEEL IT. THE MORE ATTENTION YOU GIVE IT, THE CLEARE AND STRONGER THIS FEELING WILL BECOME. IT WILL FEEL AS IF EVERY CELL IS BECOMING MORE ALIVE, AND IF YOU HAVE A STRONG VISUAL SENSE, YOU MAY GET AN IMAGE OF YOUR BODY BECOMING LUMINOUS. ALTHOUGH SUCH AN IMAGE CAN HELP YOU TEMPORARILY, PAY MORE ATTENTION TO THE FEELING THAN TO ANY IMAGE THAT MAY ARISE, AN IMAGE, NO MATTER HOW BEAUTIFUL OR POWERFUL, IS ALREADY DEFINED IN FORM, SO THERE IS LESS SCOPE FOR PENETRATING MORE DEEPLY.

          THE FEELING OF YOUR INNER BODY IS FORMLESS, AND UNFATHOMABLE. YOU CAN ALWAYS GO INTO IT MORE DEEPLY. IF YOU CANNOT FEEL VERY MUCH AT THIS STAGE, PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER YOU CAN FEEL. PERHAPS THERE IS JUST A SLIGHT TINGLING IN YOUR HANDS OR FEET. THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE MOMENT, JUST FOCUS ON THE FEELING. YOUR BODY IS COMING ALIVE. LATER, WE WILL PRACTICE SOME MORE. PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES NOW, BUT KEEP SOME ATTENTION IN THE INNER ENERGY FIELD OF THE BODY EVEN AS YOU LOOK AROUND THE ROOM. THE INNER BODY LIES AT THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN YOUR FORM IDENTIFY AND YOUR ESSENCE IDENTIFY, YOUR TRUE NATURE. NEVER LOSE TOUCH WITH IT. 

FLOWERS HISTORY

                                               POLLEN AND NECTAR

   

           INSIDE A FLOWER THERE IS A SWEET JUICE CALLED NECTAR. AS INSECTS AND BIRDS DRINK NECTOAR, THEY TAKE POLLEN FROM ONE FLOWER TO ANOTHER. WHEN A BEE DRINKS NECTOR, POLLE STICKS TO ITS FURRY BODY. IT FLIES TO ANOTHER FLOWER OF THE SAME KIND AND SOME OF THE POLLEN DROPS OFF. THIS FLOWER NOW HAS SOME POLLEN FROM ANOTHER FLOWER. POLLEN CAN RUB ONTO A HUMMINGBIRD'S BEAK AS IT DRINKS NECTAR. THE POLLEN RUBS OFF INTO THE NEXT FLOWER THAT THE HUMMINGBIRD VISITS.

      BEES CAN COLLECT NECTAR FROM OVER 1000 FLOWERS BEFORE THEY FEEL FULL!

   MAKING SEEDS

          PLANTS START TO GROW SEEDS AS SOON AS THEY HAVE SOME POLLEN FROM ANOTHER PLANT. WHEN POLLEN LANDS ON A POPPY, A POD GROWS IN THE MIDDLE. SEEDS GROW INSIDE THE POD AND THE FLOWER BEGINS TO DIE. THE PETALS FALL OFF, LEAVING A POD FULL OF SEEDS. ALLIUMS ARE MADE UP OF LOTS OF TINY FLOWERS. EACH FLOWER BECOMES A TINY SEED POD. CHINESE LANTERN SEEDS GROW INSIDE A HOLLOW CASE. 

  SOME CATERPILLARS LIVE IN SEED PODS. WHEN THE CATERPILLARS MOVE, THE PODS SEEM TO 'JUMP'.

      SPREADING SEEDS

          SEEDS NEED LOTS OF SPACE TO GROW, SO THEY HAVE TO BE SCATTERED FAR APART. BURDOCK SHARP, SPIKY HOOKS. THEY GET CAUGHT ON AN ANIMAL'S FUR AS IT BRUSHES PAST. WHEN THE ANIMAL SCRATCHES, THE SEEDS FALL OFF. CRANE'S BILL PLANTS HAVE SEED PODS ON THIN STEMS. THE STEMS CURL UP AND SHOOT THE SEEDS OUT OF THEIR PODS. DANDELION SEEDS FLOAT ON THE WIND LIKE LITTLE PARACHUTES.

 WHEN ANTS CAN SEEDS INTO THEIR NESTS TO EAT, SOME OF THE SEEDS BEGIN TO GROW.

      RAINFOREST FLOWERS

         RAINFORESTS ARE WARM, WET PLACES. TREES BLOCK OUT SUNLIGHT, SO IT'S DARK ON THE GROUND. THE LEAVES OF GLORY LILIES HOOK INTO TREES, SO THEY CAN GROW UP TO THE SUNLIGHT. 

TANK PLANTS TRAP RAINWATER IN THEIR LEAVES. FROGS LIVE IN THE POOLS OF WATER.

     A RAFFLESIA BUD GROWS ON THE GROUND. IT GROWS AS BIG AS A CABBAGE. ITS FIVE RED PETALS START TO UNFOLD. RAFFLESIA FLOWERS ARE AS BIG AS THE WHEELS ON A TRUCK AND HAVE NO LEAVES OR STEMS. THEY SMELL OF ROTTING MEAT TO ATTRACT FLIES WHICH SPREAD THEIR POLLEN.