Being Human

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Ser humano

--por Climbing PoeTree

Me pregunto si el sol discute con el amanecer
algunas mañanas
no queriendo levantarse
y salir de la cama
desde debajo del horizonte de plumón
si el cielo se cansa
de estar en todas partes a la vez
adaptándose al cambio de
estado de ánimo del clima
si las nubes se alejan
tratando de mantenerse unidas
hacer tratos con la gravedad
para holgazanear un poco más
Me pregunto si la lluvia tiene miedo
de caer
si tiene problemas
al dejar ir
si los copos de nieve se enferman
de ser perfectos todo el tiempo
cada uno
tratando de ser único en su especie
Me pregunto si las estrellas se piden deseos
a sí mismas antes de morir
si necesitan enseñar a sus hijos
como brillar
Me pregunto si las sombras tienen el deseo de
sentir por una vez el sol
si se pierden en la confusión
sin saber de dónde son
Me pregunto si el amanecer
y la puesta de sol
se aprecian mutuamente
a pesar de que nunca se han llegado a conocer
si los volcanes se estresan
si las tormentas tienen remordimientos
si el abono cree en la vida
después de la muerte
Me pregunto si el aliento alguna vez piensa en el suicidio
si el viento quiere sentarse
tranquilamente a veces
y ver pasar el mundo
si el humo nació
Sabiendo elevarse
si los arcoiris se vuelven tímidos detrás del escenario
no estoy segur@ de que sus colores peguen bien
Me pregunto si los rayos ponen el despertador
Para saber cuándo romper
si los ríos alguna vez se detienen
y piensan en regresar
si las corrientes se encuentran con el mar equivocado
y toda su vida se desvía
Me pregunto si la nieve
quiere ser negra
si la tierra piensa que es demasiado oscura
si las mariposas quieren tapar sus manchas
si las rocas son conscientes de su peso
si las montañas no están seguras de su fuerza
Me pregunto si las olas se desaniman
arrastrándose por la arena
solo para ser retiradas otra vez
a donde comenzaron
si la tierra se siente pisoteada
si la arena se siente insignificante
si los árboles necesitan preguntar a sus amantes
para saber dónde están plantados
si las ramas vacilan en los cruces de caminos
no sabiendo en qué dirección crecer
si las hojas entienden que son reemplazables
y aun así bailan cuando sopla el viento
me pregunto
dónde va la luna
cuando está escondida
Quiero encontrarla ahí
y mirar el océano
girando en la distancia
escucharle
agitarse en su sueño
el esfuerzo que da paso a la existencia


Preguntas semilla para la reflexión: ¿Qué significa para ti ser humano? ¿Puedes compartir una historia personal de alguna vez en la que la naturaleza de fuera te ayudó a conectarte con tu propia naturaleza? ¿Qué te ayuda a entender tu propia naturaleza?

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Seed Questions for Reflection

What does it mean to you to be human? Can you share a personal story of a time nature outside helped you connect with your own nature? What helps you understand your own nature?

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17 Past Reflections
J
Apr 9, 2021
A lot of meaning.
EZ
Ezra
Jun 8, 2020
This was so beautiful and perfectly timed with things that I question myself. It's nice to feel human and still relate to nature. It makes me feel a whole lot less lonely.
DI
Dibay
Feb 14, 2020
For me being human is savoring all the feelings that arise inside me. It's being aware of my feelings and where they are rooted in my beliefs and how I learned these. It's both joy and sadness, laughter and tears, connection and solitude. Nature teaches me... trees that continue to stand tall under the hard sun and pressing furious rain, flowers that bloom no matter what the weather is, winds that blow strong but pass on... just like my feelings. Nature teaches me about interconnectedness - that while I enjoy my solitude, I know I am always connected to a world of people and Higher Source.
MA
Feb 12, 2020
In this universe only we as human got gift of expression. We can feel and express all kind of feelings, we can learn from mistakes, we can get up every morning until we are not dead and say thank you to god for being alive, being human. We can have a wisdom to make next moment better, we can have a wisdom to do anything, we can feel pain for other person or for a snail. These small-2 things can make us human.
When we were kid , my granny used to say "Being born as Human is result of so many great deeds". That time it was hard to understand but now I know why she said that. So I am trying to make my each day count. Small act of kindness is helping me to be human. I just wish not to stop that.
Thank you every one to believe in each other.
BA
barb
Feb 11, 2020
being human is learning to live with contradiction: living with silence AND noise, light AND dark, winter AND summer, happiness AND grief, peace AND chaos, rich and poor, health and disease, loved and hated. Nature is the perfect place to help us understandthese contradictions and give us the breathing room to figure out our interconnectedness with them. Unless she doesn't give us time.
MA
Feb 11, 2020
This. Thank you. Praise God.
VO
Vonda
Feb 11, 2020
To be human is to experience the grace of being alive. Wild, Gusty Grace by Vonda Drees It became my fall routine – a daily slip and slide down the river’s high bank. My trust and gratitude grew for Dogwood and Alder, whose branches I learned to grasp to steady my descent. And then one day when the river was particularly low, I sat for just a bit longer on the warm, smooth stones of the shore. In the distant green hills, a gust of wind created a shiver among the trees. As it approached, it skimmed over the shallow water. Before I knew what was happening, the shiver came through me, too, raising the hairs on my arms and sending tingles through my body. Memories are like that: rhythmic dilations of consciousness pulsing through us in unguarded moments – unguarded moments. This wild grace -- such a shift in power, such a surrendering from within, such a stir on our skin.... View full comment
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marc
Feb 11, 2020
some weeks ago i was meditating on a energy spot, at a time i felt empty and wanted to shift to a mantrato fill the space, but i hesitated and said to me, "just wait" and suddenly i felt through my feet and limbs and my whole body connected to the soil and the world I felt trulyalive and human and often reflect about the spark of that moment.
LI
Lisa Feb 11, 2020
Oh - I have had this feeling/sensation as well when I connect with nature! I fell part of the soil and part of the sky and wind as well. It is the phenomena that Thich Nhat Hanh calls "inter-being."
RP
Feb 11, 2020
Being Human means not to hurt any living being by mind, speech and body to the slightest extent and let my mind, body, and speech be used to oblige others.
JF
Jody Ferris
Feb 11, 2020
Being human is realizing that each and everyone of us were all born equally deserving of a full life that is only surmounted by the deeds we sll do together to make this world a better place to live and coexist with all that there is. We live to fulfill our inner being with the rays of our heavenly father so that we may too some day be the light that gives life.
PI
Feb 11, 2020
To me being human is being my trueself / natural self. The self that feels normal and right within. Multiple things in nature helps me connect and reminds me to be my trueself.

Water - natural quality is calm and it always come back to that. My natural quality is peace and love and that's what feels right within. Other qualities like anger, ego don't feel right, natural or normal.

Sunlight - it shines the same to everyone. No judgement. I shouldn't give up my values or character traits because of other's behavior or circumstances.
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Waves - there will be ups and downs but eventually it settles down. Nothing is permanent - good or bad.
RS
Renu Singh
Feb 11, 2020
Why is there pressure to be better and better - why can't I just BE
VI
Feb 9, 2020
to be human is to just "be".
as we are. where we are.
for everything in nature is perfect.
as it is.
DD
Feb 7, 2020
To be human is to be an expression of God in a particular form with a particular consciousness, in the world and interrelated with all the rest of creation. As I became more aware of nature outside, that is, nature different than me, I became aware that every form of nature is a unique expression of One Source, which awareness helps me appreciate and connect with my own nature. I don't know what is meant by understanding my own nature. Being human I have the ability to analyze, but I prefer to be human rather than analyze what it means to be human. I do understand it in the sense of standing under it being supportive of it. I find that being mindful, being in the present and paying attention to what I am experiencing, help me to value and enjoy my nature.
JP
Feb 7, 2020
To me Human without Being is like the Sun without Light, Stillness without Movement, Silence without Sound, Up without Down, Beginning without Ending. They are intertwined. There is beautiful Sanskrit word , Sahaja, which means Natural, Effortless. Nature follows hernatural rhythm. Body goes through its four natural cycles-birth, growth, decline and death. The challenge for me is to live as a Human Being maintaining connection between Human and Being. Human without Being is incomplete, self-centered, egotistic and narcissistic. When I take a mindful walk in nature I feel naturally connected with external nature- the vastness of the sky, the touch of the wind, the fragrance of flowers, the chirping of birds, the sound of silence. I feel such effortless connection between my inner nature and outer nature when I meditate and when I get absorbed in chanting or listening to chanting. I feel at home. I always take time out to be with me and be fully present with me. I take a mindful walk, ... View full comment
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malcolm Apr 9, 2021
Good Pom. A lot of meaning