Get rid of the rose: An Anusara Moment
June 15th, 2010 by workingwellvt
A fragrant white rose in my garden was never in the right place to catch enough sun for optimum health. For two years, I’ve watched her bloom tentatively and then be ravaged by bugs.
I’ve tried hosing them off, spraying them with organic pesticides (and then worrying about the birds and squirrels) and handpicking dozens of pests off the shrub twice a day.
This year I removed the infested beauty before the surrounding plants were affected.
It’s tough sometimes to eliminate something in life that SEEMS like it should be OK. Or we WISH it was OK. Or we don’t understand why we can’t MAKE it OK. It could be a habit, belief, possession or even a livelihood that ultimately isn’t serving us.
Rumi, the 13th C. Sufi mystic and poet writes-
…. if you wait and just let it happen, you’d bite your hand and say “I didn’t do as I knew I should have…Quick! Take the pickaxe and pry the foundation.
Get rid of the rose so the rest of the garden may flourish.