Returning to Source
The Report the Root Makes
The state of vacancy should be brought to the utmost degree, and that of stillness guarded with unwearying vigour. All things alike go through their processes of activity, and then we see them return to their original state. When things in the vegetable world have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root. This returning to their root is the state of stillness, and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end. To know that unchanging rule is to be intelligent; not to know it leads to wild movements and evil issues.
Key Insight
Return is not a collapse. It is the plant's report that the season did its work. Stillness is how the root records fulfilment. Wild movement is what you get when you skip that report.
“When things (in the vegetable world) have displayed their luxuriant growth, we see each of them return to its root. This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness.”Explore full theme analysis
