Nature is our Best Teacher

Dr. Tae Yun Kim uses examples from nature to illustrate her teachings, and does so very effectively.

I am sure you have noticed that you cannot hang on to a sunset.  It comes and goes within a matter of seconds.  It comes in all its beauty and then is done until the next day.  Wouldn't it be very weird if nature was so proud of a particular sunset it tried to hang on to it?

Many trees change their leaf colors in the fall, and then shed the leaves altogether.  In spring, new ones come and cover the tree all over again.  Those trees never keep their leaves just because they did a lot of good during the summer and were so pretty in the fall!  

Nature just knows what needs to be done - and does it.  How about people?  I can't say that of myself. In reading one of my favorite books by Dr. Tae Yun Kim, I found this gem that always keeps me on the right track:

"Clinging to a good picture you have created possibly keeps you from expanding into an even greater good.  Clinging to a disagreeable picture keeps you there!  So, don't hold on to as though it is the final story.  You don't hate, resent, fight, or quarrel with an undesirable situation, and you don't overly love or cling to a desirable situation.  Detachment means you are always ready, open and willing to experience change.  That is how you develop.  You can't develop and grow if you hold on tightly to something you have acquired no matter how good you think it is." (The Silent Master, page 100)

Let's be like nature and let things flow, and be open to positive changes in our lives!