The clearest way into the universe is through a forest wilderness.Gensha: "Can you hear the babbling brook?" I feel strong to leap Yosemite walls at a bound. Ink cannot tell the glow that lights me at this moment in turning to the mountains.My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly all nature seeks God and works toward him.Nature has neither kernel nor shell she is everything at once.Nature hath no goal though she hath law.There is nothing useless in nature not even uselessness itself.No snowflake falls in an inappropriate place.Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.You're just nothing when you're near a volcano. Except during the nine months before he dawns his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.This in turn allows the Buddha to manifest through the leaf. Handle even a single leaf of green in such a way that it manifests the body of the Buddha.This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand. Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers.Nature is what she is-amoral and persistent.Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons.
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