{"id":55,"date":"2008-09-18T07:47:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T07:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flowermandalas\/2008\/09\/flower-mandalas-yellow-rose-an.html"},"modified":"2008-09-18T07:47:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T07:47:19","slug":"flower-mandalas-yellow-rose-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flowermandalas\/2008\/09\/flower-mandalas-yellow-rose-an.html","title":{"rendered":"Flower Mandalas: Yellow Rose (and garbage)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yellow<\/span>
\nYellow Rose I<\/strong>
\nDefiled or immaculate. Dirty or pure. These are concepts we form in our mind. A beautiful rose we have just cut and placed in our vase is pure. It smells so good, so fresh. A garbage can is the opposite. It smells horrible, and it is filled with rotten things.<\/em>
\nBut that is only when we look on the surface. If we look deeply, we will see that in just five or six days, the rose will become part of the garbage. We do not need to wait five days to see it. If we just look at the rose, and we look deeply, we can see it now. And if we look into the garbage can, we see that in a few months its contents can be transformed into lovely vegetables, and even a rose. If you are a good organic gardener, looking at a rose you can see the garbage, and looking at the garbage you can see a rose. <\/em>
\nRoses and garbage inter-are. Without a rose, we cannot have garbage; and without garbage, we cannot have a rose. They need each other very much. The rose and the garbage are equal. The garbage is just as precious as the rose.<\/em>
\n– Thich Nhat Hanh, “Peace is Every Step”<\/strong>
\nDiscussion:<\/strong>
\nArt, Healing, and Transformation group<\/A>
\nFlower Mandalas Project group<\/A>
\nCultivating Creativity group<\/a>
\nRequest a flower mandala screensaver<\/strong>: Fifteen Flower Mandalas<\/a>
\nImage \u00a9 2008, David J. Bookbinder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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