Dharma Wheel Masanobu Fukuoka

All things were de­signed so that one is many, the in­di­vid­ual is the whole, the whole is per­fect, there is no waste, noth­ing is use­less, and all things per­form their best ser­vice.

I would like to pro­pose a dharma wheel the­ory of bi­o­log­i­cal de­vel­op­ment as an al­ter­na­tive to Dar­win’s flat, sin­gle-plane the­ory of nat­u­ral se­lec­tion. I will call it the Dharma Wheel The­ory of Flux in All Things. The dharma wheel can be seen as a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of nat­u­ral law. Na­ture ex­pands in all di­rec­tions, three-di­men­sion­ally, and at the same time, as it de­vel­ops, it con­verges and con­tracts. We can see these changes of ex­pan­sion and con­trac­tion as a kind of wheel. It is like the uni­verse—three-di­men­sional, al­ways ex­pand­ing and con­tract­ing, spin­ning in space, and head­ing in an un­known di­rec­tion.
 At the cre­ation, along with the birth of the rest of the uni­verse, the earth and all the liv­ing things on it were born as a sin­gle, uni­fied body with a com­mon fate. Ev­ery­thing re­gard­ing the roles, the aims, and the work of each of them orig­i­nated and was con­cluded in the same in­stant. All things were de­signed so that one is many, the in­di­vid­ual is the whole, the whole is per­fect, there is no waste, noth­ing is use­less, and all things per­form their best ser­vice.
 There is an­other as­pect to this dy­namic, spin­ning, ex­pand­ing, and con­tract­ing three-di­men­sional and mul­ti­fac­eted dharma wheel. Its cen­ter, the hub, is for­ever mo­tion­less and for­ever one. In­stead of see­ing the dis­tinc­tions among the things of this world, if we look at the base, it is all one, and the pur­pose of all things is the same.
Masanobu Fukuoka, „Sawing Seeds in the Desert”

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Two peo­ple are sit­ting by the fire in­side an earth­en­ware jar. The jar rep­re­sents the world cre­ated by hu­man thoughts. The three char­ac­ters around the peo­ple are wind, light, fire. The char­ac­ter in the smoke that has man­aged to rise out of the jar is mu, or empti­ness. The third per­son, who is not in­side the jar, is re­lax­ing and en­joy­ing him­self.

The hearth is the uni­verse
the uni­verse is also a mid-day dream.

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