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”
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.