Can a return to nature bring true meaning to your life?
Vic Shayne
author
13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering
Can we learn anything about the meaning of life from being around nature and its creatures? Or do we consider ourselves to be somehow more important than any other species but our own?
While nature seems to be perceived by most people in the modern world to be apart from what we are, it is actually a reflection of us in more ways than one. Observing nature can make this point very clear if we’re open to it.
Beginning with the body
The body is born of nature, from what we may call a natural, biological process, just like the bodies of all other living beings. However, unlike most expressions of consciousness, we as a species with a superior brain have cordoned ourselves off from the natural world, and this makes it difficult — and often impossible — to see ourselves in it. We may have all sorts of window dressing like sterilized maternity wards, birthing classes, packaged foods, manicured lawns, and artificial insemination, but the biology of how life comes into existence and how it is sustained doesn’t change.
Religion is much to blame
Instead of being immersed in the natural cycle of doing, becoming…
