Flexible and interactive integration
"Be totally unassuming
What's more, you should hold to the establishment of peace.
Be at one with all these living things which, having emerged and prospered,
Come back to the calm whence they came,
Like a sound development of vegetation
Falling back upon the root.
Acknowledgment of this arrival to the root has been called 'quietism… .'"
(A selection from #16 from The Way of Life, as indicated by Lao Tzu, deciphered by Witter Bynner, 1994)
I've been considering what I need to share on this blog entry and how to start. I as of late came back from spending the long stretch of September at a nursing home in Naperville, Illinois, tending to my 92-year-old Mother. It's difficult to articulate what that experience involved.
My Mom has dependably been loaded with vitality and she is one who adores meeting individuals and conversing with them. In any case, I was gotten back to home toward the finish of August in light of the fact that my Mom's ailment had gotten ugly; and the specialists felt she truly had just a couple of days left on this planet.
When I arrived, she was out of the doctor's facility and in a recovery focus to reconstruct her quality. She was really sitting outside of the inside in a wheel seat waving at me. I had so set myself up to be prepared to help her in her keep going minutes on this planet. Rather, she gave off an impression of being fine, in great spirits and not prepared to leave this plane yet!
While investing energy at the restoration focus, as I'd stroll down the corridors to my Mom's room, I really wanted to see numerous matured individuals who were scarcely clinging to life. They seemed, by all accounts, to be truly shrinking ceaselessly. Obviously, there were individuals of more youthful ages who were recuperating from medical procedures or sicknesses, as well; yet they were encountering to a greater degree a brief circumstance instead of a terminal disease. I really wanted to contemplate the entire procedure of life.
As Lao Tzu expressed in the statement above, sound vegetation starts "falling back upon the root." I think about my little incredible nieces and extraordinary nephews, who resemble little sprouts simply starting to develop, taking in the vitality of the sun. Afterward, as plants pick up quality, they bloom – people do a similar when they develop and start to make and construct their lives. Similarly as plants need to withstand the breeze and rain and warmth and cool, so do people as they climate the tempests of their lives. In the long run, those little lively plants start to wilt away – they have filled their need, thus do we as people.
In any case, plants appear to acknowledge every day as it comes – you don't see a plant raging off in outrage since it's sick of being drizzled upon. Likewise, plants don't appear to battle the way toward maturing. They acknowledge their opportunity here on earth and achieve what Lao Tzu calls "quietism." I like that word. I thought about whether a portion of the elderly individuals were achieving a state of "quietism" – tolerating their last days here and enabling the maturing procedure to be available – no obstruction, no outrage, no dread, just acknowledgment.
In the interim, my Mom is currently in a long haul mind home with the goal that she may have consistent nursing care. Her versatility astounded us – she has returned commonly from being near death. It resembles the little "plant" in her continues discovering sustenance to continue developing as opposed to "falling back upon the root." Also, numerous individuals were petitioning God for her wellbeing; almost certainly God's Healing Hands gave her quality to go ahead.