The love of nature in Zen

[MUSIC] love for nature in zen [MUSIC] one of the pillars of zen is the love for nature and the  nature and the japanese culture rooted in   the principles of zen professes the same extraordinary respect  extraordinary respect for all natural wabi sabi

   love for flowers in general and cherry blossoms in  cherry blossoms in particular is very   rooted in the zen culture of japan the beauty of the imperfection of  the imperfection of the natural and the mundane of   the wounded or unstructured of the essential that  that is the true love that zen transmits under   the concept of wabi sabi nothing is complete  nothing is perfect and nothing lasts forever [Sound] Japanese tradition has always been characterized  characterized by giving a great value   to those things, objects or simple and mundane anecdotes  and mundane anecdotes that the rest of the planet considers   of no value or that simply do not  do not pay them the attention they deserve   from the everydayness of drinking a cup of tea  the Japanese have created one of the most ritualistic   most beautiful and delicate in the world, an art, an extreme  extreme connection between a cup and the spirit   and nature in its greatest expression of  that's what beauty is about from the eyes of the   zen the most beautiful is always before your eyes  it depends on whether you know how to look or you don't know how to look [Sound] surrounded by stimuli devoid of essence  of dead and soulless nature   it is difficult to connect with the true beauty  of the world of the mind of the earth the zen te   invites the reconnection of our spirit with nature and what is truly  nature with what is truly beautiful not with what is   we refer only to the landscapes, the seas, the mountains or the  mountains or the forests but to the subtle connection   with the nature that surrounds us the nature of  of the things of the acts of the feelings of everything

   what it implies to be natural and to be in connection  with that which is not essential in our eyes to profess   love in any of the acts we do is a symptom of  symptom of connection with our nature with the   the most intimate of our senses we only have to flow  we don't have to let ourselves feel and everything will emanate from within   there are no thoughts there is no dogma we just have to be one with nature and beauty will spring up by itself [Sound] beauty is found in every single gesture  we have to know how to see with the eyes of the soul   as zen says, stripping ourselves of material things  seeing only the essence of the natural [Sound] once upon a time in coysicagua there was a woman  prisoner who was destined to be   executed before spring she was very fond of spending  fond of spending long periods of time looking through   the window where there was a cherry tree  her death sentence was pronounced she asked for   to let him see the cherry tree blossom  before leaving this earth forever   to which his jailer agreed with following him  her last wish, it is said that the woman found the   death thus in her happiest spirit and the tree began to be known  began to be known by its name to satsuma