What does it take to grow?
A while back a question posted asked what was harmony. There were many answers and some came pretty close to defining a good definition.
Now another question came. What does it take to grow? What single thing do animals, humans, plants, insects, and the rest of the life as we know it use? Without going into what other people have described I want to attempt to answer that for my self. It is a question that has plagued thinkers for all times. I could probably write a cultural anthropology paper on it.
One of my first thoughts is purpose. But do trees and animals have purpose? Do they have that drive to do what they are supposed to do? I am a seed. What is my purpose? To take the resources given me and to do everything I can to reach my potential. If I am given a rock or soil full of nutrients, it makes no difference. I will grow the best I can. If I am a rock, do I have purpose? I am to take what is around me and be the best I can. If I am given water, sun, compacted, thrown, broken, mixed, hardened, aged, it does not matter. I will be what I am to be. I will never be anything else. If I am an insect, I have a purpose to do a specific task, the best I am able to do with the resources available to me. If I am to gather food, I do what it takes without question or doubt. If I am a bird, I have specific traits and abilities to do the best I can with what I have. If I have to gather food, make a home, feed others, move, I will do it the way I do it because that is what I have observed that works for me. If I any other type of animal, I have a specific purpose, I do specific tasks with what I am given to the best of my ability in my own interest. If it will get me what I want, I will do it. If I observe a way of doing it better, or I discover something else that allows me to get what I want, I will do it.
Now, does that work with humans? When we have a purpose we do it and we find the best way to do it with our abilities. But, we have doubt, are we always supposed to be the best we can be with definite purpose? Why does it seem that at times we flounder and don't have a specific purpose? Is it because we are complicating the mix and trying to do things that are not up to our potential? Does that make us less likely to grow? Are we trying to much to observe others and do what they do? Why do we complicate things and constantly think other things will be more efficient? The simplicity of trying to be the most of what ever you are doing. To act with purpose and to the best of your ability given the resources available to you, I think that may be at least one way to grow.
Simplicity in the task at hand,
Focus and efficient means,
Adaptability through experience,
Doing because it is to be done,
Grow into your being,
Use your tools,
Use what is given to you,
Do it the best you can,
No excuses,
No regrets,
No past,
No future,
Now.
What is your purpose?
Are you doing it?
If you don't know,
What are you doing right now?
Are you really?
Now,
Don't worry about the future,
Don't worry about the past,
Do what you are doing,
With everything,
Simply because you are doing it.
Now another question came. What does it take to grow? What single thing do animals, humans, plants, insects, and the rest of the life as we know it use? Without going into what other people have described I want to attempt to answer that for my self. It is a question that has plagued thinkers for all times. I could probably write a cultural anthropology paper on it.
One of my first thoughts is purpose. But do trees and animals have purpose? Do they have that drive to do what they are supposed to do? I am a seed. What is my purpose? To take the resources given me and to do everything I can to reach my potential. If I am given a rock or soil full of nutrients, it makes no difference. I will grow the best I can. If I am a rock, do I have purpose? I am to take what is around me and be the best I can. If I am given water, sun, compacted, thrown, broken, mixed, hardened, aged, it does not matter. I will be what I am to be. I will never be anything else. If I am an insect, I have a purpose to do a specific task, the best I am able to do with the resources available to me. If I am to gather food, I do what it takes without question or doubt. If I am a bird, I have specific traits and abilities to do the best I can with what I have. If I have to gather food, make a home, feed others, move, I will do it the way I do it because that is what I have observed that works for me. If I any other type of animal, I have a specific purpose, I do specific tasks with what I am given to the best of my ability in my own interest. If it will get me what I want, I will do it. If I observe a way of doing it better, or I discover something else that allows me to get what I want, I will do it.
Now, does that work with humans? When we have a purpose we do it and we find the best way to do it with our abilities. But, we have doubt, are we always supposed to be the best we can be with definite purpose? Why does it seem that at times we flounder and don't have a specific purpose? Is it because we are complicating the mix and trying to do things that are not up to our potential? Does that make us less likely to grow? Are we trying to much to observe others and do what they do? Why do we complicate things and constantly think other things will be more efficient? The simplicity of trying to be the most of what ever you are doing. To act with purpose and to the best of your ability given the resources available to you, I think that may be at least one way to grow.
Simplicity in the task at hand,
Focus and efficient means,
Adaptability through experience,
Doing because it is to be done,
Grow into your being,
Use your tools,
Use what is given to you,
Do it the best you can,
No excuses,
No regrets,
No past,
No future,
Now.
What is your purpose?
Are you doing it?
If you don't know,
What are you doing right now?
Are you really?
Now,
Don't worry about the future,
Don't worry about the past,
Do what you are doing,
With everything,
Simply because you are doing it.
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