We live in a culture obsessed with immediate weeding. The moment a negative thought, a difficult emotion, or a messy situation enters our field, our first instinct is to rip it out. We want to fix, cure, and/or purge it as soon as possible.

But ancient wisdom offers a different approach in this a classic parable about a very wise and patient farmer:

A farmer sowed good seeds in his field. However, while his workers were asleep, an enemy secretly planted “tares” (a type of poisonous weed, often identified as darnel, that looks exactly like wheat in its early stages) among the young wheat. Because wheat and tares look nearly identical during their early growth stages, the workers only realize what has happened once both plants begin to mature.

When the crops began to grow and the fraud was noticed, the confused servants asked if they should immediately go and pull up the weeds. The farmer refused, explaining that the roots of the weeds and the wheat were deeply intertwined. Pulling up the weeds prematurely would risk uprooting the good wheat along with them.

Instead, the farmer instructed his workers to let both grow together until harvest time. At the harvest, the workers would gather the weeds to be burned, and safely store the wheat in the barn.

The Wisdom of Non-Interference
The farmer’s secret wasn’t laziness; it was profound awareness. He knew that trying to force a clean field too early would leave him with no harvest at all.

“Let them both grow together.”

This is the heart of mindfulness. It is the practice of allowing coexistence. It means sit on your meditation cushion and stop fighting with the “weeds” in your mind.

When we stop fighting the weeds, two things become possible:
• We save our energy: Fighting our flaws and fears takes a massive amount of psychic bandwidth.
• Clarity reveals itself: As time passes, the true nature of things becomes undeniable. Wheat becomes wheat; weeds become weeds.

There is an order we have all set into motion (unconsciously), which translates into the only state of life that we can experience throughout our lifetime.

This was established within our human psyche during the formative ages of 1-7 years old. This order becomes our subjective view point through which we willfully initiate ourselves into the state of our genetics and DNA, which causes us to live merely for the sake of survival, and unconsciously attaches us to the collective unconscious that psychically and viciously swarms around us 24/7.

In this soullessness, we develop and incorporate a mental acuity that is reflective of our fears, rather than Love. And from here, our state of living manifests our genetic dispositions over the spiritual state of the Soul.

The cure for is found through the patience of authentic Love. This means we willingly do not try to “make” events and circumstances work in my favor, but rather simply observe how everything comes together through energetics and forms new circumstances. Much like the weather – as highs and lows form the state of our weather, so does the temperament of our emotions formulate our mental disposition. The object is to come to no conclusion about anything.

As they say in Zen: “Only don’t know.”

Rather, I let everything play out as it must in order to realize the “bigger picture.” Everything is playing out to show us “our place” in this world. And regardless of whether the ego likes it or not, everything comes down to a decision that will affect our lives here, as well as the many yet to come.

We have to choose between the ego and the Soul.

And NO…you can’t have both.

This means that we will not always recognize the “weather” of our conditions, but we will realize that we are the state of our own weather. From here, we can recognize that everything is playing out just as it must and, if we are aware, we can escape our own self-made “hell” by no longer interfering by seeking vengeance for the sake of pride.

We are where we are because we live for what we “need” and “want” instead of for that which IS. Do not live in the disingenuousness of being contrary toward Love.