Treedom is freedom. What does this mean?
Consider the splendour of the old mahogany tree arrayed in his brand-new spring foliage of jewel-green.For close to a hundred years, he has grown in harmony with the seasons, roots reaching ever deeper into the earth as his branches reach ever higher into the sky. Though he does not travel, he bridges earth and heaven and dances with wind and sun and rain.
In the timeless rhythm of the seasons, he flows in perfect harmony.
He is my guru and an old friend..I have known him all the years of my life.
I feel the power and the deep wisdom he emanates, the compassion in his heart, providing cool shade to weary humans and a refuge to generations of birds and squirrels and insects and lizards.
He teaches me how to stay still, alert and aware, to plumb my inner depths and heights, grow deep and tall in the vertical dimension of the present moment.
From trees I learnt that , for spiritual growth, this is the first step....balancing the heights and the depths, carrying the light of heaven into the dark of earth and balancing the airy dance of expanding consciousness with the deep-rooted strength of anchored centering.
Once depth and height meet, awareness spreads in all directions like a blazing sun!
