A Need for a Fertile Space

You cultivate rich, fertile, living ground for insight and compassion, for deep human feeling, to continually sprout and take seed. It’s a natural process. You can’t force it. You simply set the right conditions in motion and then get out of the way.

 

-          Steve Krieger, "Growing Ground"

 

I really like this quote.  It ties so closely with what I believe about caring and also about meditation.  As to each of these conditions there is no easy out of the box way to carry out either, I mean not in a meaningful way.  Caring requires a hope perhaps a belief in the unseen good that will come.  And then it requires measured action to foster the relationship between the care giver and the care recipient.  Meditation requires a movement toward silence to allow all things to fall away permitting awareness to expand.  In the silence comes acceptance and forgiveness. In essence both caring and meditating require that you create an empty space that is a fertile field. Both allow for the next better moment.