Some hopes are quickly realized while others take longer. Some hopes are simple enough to be realized quickly while others need more time. Some hopes need to wait for a propitious moment to bloom.
Go out to a field of flowers. Some are small, some are large, some are colorful, and some are strikingly simple. Some wither quickly and some stay in bloom for a long time. The shapes and sizes of the flowers all differ, even among the same types. Which flower do you like? What color do you prefer? You can pick the flower that your taste prefers, but there is no good or bad.
A large flower just happens to be large while a small flower is just small. A long-lasting flower lasts long while others wither more quickly. There is a great diversity, but there is neither superiority nor inferiority. Although each flower is beautiful in its own fashion, there is a greater and more magnificent beauty in the whole of this picture, with flowers withering, blooming, sprouting, decaying, petals fluttering in the wind, such that the whole is much more beautiful than the parts. This is the Garden of God.
You don’t see the matter, but only the already constructed products. Because of the grand illusion called separateness, you don’t recognize the whole but only see a part under close-up inspection. We often call such recognition phenomena the mind.
