We remind ourselves that our emphasis these weeks in our practice is “natural”, hence the photo of the flowers. Unfolding is natural. For a human being, unfolding is experienced in myriad ways:

• physical growth from newborn through every other stage
• emotional growth from self-absorbed to less so, which provides for caring for others and service
• expansion of conceptual bases, i.e. increasing wide and open mindedness
• living more from warm-heartedness, thus from patience, acceptance, flow, kindness, courtesy and respect
• spiritual unfolding
• every letting go or letting be
• and the unfolding that significant illness and dying provide.

A flowering plant displays most of these stages quite visibly. We do too.