Daily Meditation: Sunday, December 23, 2001

Nothing is more important than the seed in a fruit; thanks …

12/23/2001

Nothing is more important than the seed in a fruit; thanks to this seed, one can eventually grow thousands of fruit trees. The essential for nature is the seed; nature is only interested in seeds and pits. The reason she puts a bit of flesh around them is to attract birds and men who take care of planting them. From a symbolic point of view, the seed, the pit is the spirit, the flesh is the space where life - the soul - circulates and the skin is the material envelope, the physical body. One cannot deny that the physical body is important: it is like a bottle which keeps the scent from evaporating, it retains the soul and spirit; however, a true human being is not just a body but also this imperceptible point somewhere within himself, which thinks, loves and creates. The proof that cosmic intelligence is not very attached to the physical body is that the latter is left to die and be buried, whereas the immortal spirit returns to the celestial regions.