Profiting From GardeningUnity Consciousness #305

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No matter what a person does in the act of gardening, despite all the effort and thought processes applied, still does not add up to what the ecosystem does in the act of gardening.

At most, a human contributes 10% or less in the process of helping a seed or plant move from beginning to harvest to returning/recycling in the ecosystem. This is a generous estimate.

The ecosystem contributes 90% of what it takes to get the gardening results humans get. Remember, the ecosystem does not need humans to do what the ecosystem did before humans got here and what the ecosystem continues to do – function as a self-maintaining garden.

With this in mind, it is unwise for humans to expect to reap 100% of the rewards of gardening when 10% or less is being contributed.

The 90% or more the ecosystem contributes must benefit the needs of multiple lifeforms. For this reason, it is more profitable to plant more than one of everything and also more than the amount necessary to satisfy self. When this approach is taken and some plants don't make it or some leaves are eaten, then, it's still all good because it's understood as win-win. This is so because the profit margin from what is given compared to what is received is still an abundant harvest. This is true from a purely fruit/vegetable harvest perspective and even moreso from a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual harvest perspective.

Profiting from gardening is not about maximizing. Profiting is about optimizing.

Optimizing takes into account the needs of all and the needs of the entire self. Maximizing focuses on one thing such as personal profit or how much food can be produced. When maximizing one thing is the focus, inevitably, minimizing multiple things will be the result. So it is in the metaphor of life. Who and what also profit from what we are profiting from?