Foundation

Mind in dantien.

It always boils down to this. Only then do we touch nature because only then is the mind where it naturally should be. Relaxation. Being willing to take and give things as they are. Nothing special. We become another natural object, planted and implanted, and what is around us and within us naturally reveals itself. If the mind is anywhere else then we begin to impose and project, and our world loses richness – it shrinks into what we think it is. The heart only fully opens from this foundation: it requires the ground to flow up through us, not esoterically but naturally. Natural just means relaxed – without thought or will.