Humble Yourself at the Sight of the Tree

Humble yourself 20th November 2008

These leaves are movers, bending branches before the wind they bend toward the earth.
These leaves are like a giant green prey mantas...
Bow down I am hearing in the words of an old hippie song: "You got to humble, yourself at the sight of the tree"
"To know what it knows you got to bend down low and humble yourself at the tree - for we, shall, lift each other up, higher and higher we, shall lift each other up!" And I am thinking, what rituals have been born from the bowing and bending of the leaves and branches, bending before the earth, bending full with the breath and winds of God...these branches that sway and bow before the breeze...?
More than solar sails these leaves and branches are guides and story tellers.
Why did Buddha sit beneath a fig tree (Bodhi tree: Ficus religiosa)?
What inspiration did it bring him? It is written, "...after his Enlightenment, the Buddha spent a whole week in front of the tree, standing with unblinking eyes, gazing at it with gratitude."
What inspiration does it bring to all of us - with eyes unblinking in our quest to see?
Some sacred action here is communicated (commune created) - some transcending (transform sending)which in turn transforms the mind, lets us see another side... the side of the wind.