Seasons

You begin to see that there are seasons in your life
in the same way as there as seasons in nature.
There are times to cultivate, when you nurture your world
and give birth to new ideas and ventures.

There are times of flourishing and abundance,
when life feels in full bloom
energized and expanding.

And there are times of fruition
when things come to an end.
They have reached their climax and must be harvested
before they begin to fade.

And finally there are those times that are cold and cutting and empty
times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream.

Thiose rhythms in life are natural events.

They weave into one another as day follows night
bringing, not messages of hope and fear
but messages of how things are.


Chogram Trungpa Rinpoche, How to Rule