Puja for two trees
Day 118 of my tree puja.
In which I compare my experience at home with offering to a tree in the bush.
Yesterday I did tree puja elsewhere. We held a retreat. Everyone did tree puja at dawn…
Offer your mind
Day 116 of my tree puja.
In which I reflect on patterns of energy.
Puja is all about lifting up energy. That’s it.
Breathe and Grow
Day 115 of my tree puja.
In which the tree reveals a simple truth.
Thank goodness for the tree, she pulls me outside, out of the walls and into her world.
The flame of her renunciation
Day 114 of my tree puja.
In which the tree’s renunciation of her leaves and their flame-like appearance, heightens my connection with her.
The shift into spiritual life
Day 113 of my tree puja.
In which the metaphor of renunciation continues as I perceive the tree’s withdrawal of energy from the external to the internal.
I went at dusk, after gardening all day. When I returned from India last summer to find the undergrowth all cleared and the ground naked, I promised the tree I would plant things, and now I have.
Like the naked sadhus of India
Day 112 of my tree puja.
In which I see the autumn tree as a metaphor for the renunciation practised by Indian sadhus.
I have been away, now I am back. In the meantime, she, the tree, has dressed herself in burnt orange, terracotta, which is like the geru (orange) robes of swamis.
I have befriended the tree
Day 111 of my tree puja.
In which I reflect on the transformative power of friendship.
In the past year I have befriended the tree.
For years and years before that, the tree was right there beside me, looking beautiful, sheltering birds, giving shade, but I never thought to give back…