When You Do Not Cling, the Spring of Wisdom Comes
Nature changes the seasons and lets all phenomena flow without forcing, hurrying, or clinging. In the season when leaves fall, we can learn this natural law more deeply.
No matter how red and beautiful autumn leaves are, the tree cannot hold them forever. When the time comes, the leaves become fallen leaves and drop, and the tree naturally lets them go.
But in life, we often cannot let many things go naturally. The more we attach, cling, and try to hold on, the heavier the mind becomes, and suffering arises from that place.
What cannot be held must be let go. After letting go, a time like cold winter may come, but just as a tree passes through winter and meets spring again, a new path also opens in our life.
When we naturally release what must be released, we can find happiness again. Then the spring of wisdom appears in the mind, and life grows into a more beautiful form.
Nature flows with the seasons, and a tree lets go even of beautiful autumn leaves when the time comes. Because of attachment and clinging, we try to hold what cannot be held, and we suffer. But when we naturally let go of what must be released, we pass through a winter-like time, find happiness again, and meet the spring of wisdom in life.
