Karmic Seeds

Half me, half you

Your mind is a garden.

When you help someone, together a new seed is created that drops into both of your gardens

and with nurturing, which in this case is positive reflection on virtuous deeds done,

then the seeds will grow and bloom and bear fruit sometime, now or in the near future, or distant future.

Let's say you're surrounded by poverty,

and there are people who ask you for a donation.

You don't have much, but you give anyway. This is a generous deed. Another way to be generous is to think about this person's condition and how you can help them.

With the intention to help, you spend some time joyfully reflecting on what might be good for them and you parlez this message to them the next time you see them. In that moment, where you are genuinely intending to benefit them and help them, and see them prosper, a karmic seed is formed. Your mind is a garden and their mind is a garden; where the soils are similar, and the winds are similar, and the waters are similar, but some are more lush and fertile than others simply due to cultivation.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A friend in need is a friend in deed.

The latter is closer to what we're talking about; when one acts to help another, there is action in the universe, and that action creates seeds which create proliferation if they are planted in the right spots.

What are the right spots? Anybody who is missing a palm tree from their garden could use a palm tree. Anyone who is missing a kumquat or a pineapple or a raspberry bush could use one of those varieties. If you are lacking a raspberry bush, how will you get one? Convention says, go buy some seeds or obtain some seeds from a friend. But, what about the karmic seeds we're talking about? In order to "obtain" karmic seeds, one must help others. By helping others with a mindset intending on helping and benefitting, in the moment help is given and received there is a creation of a karmic seed, or a karmic seed cluster, and the seeds go sprinkling out like freshly cast crop being sown by a farmer gladly.

In this way, seeds are a result of interacting with others, so there is no buying of seeds or selling of seeds, because it is interaction and intention which creates them, nothing else.

That's the general idea and there is much more to say on the topic, but I do not wish to complicate it at this time.

To ponder

Your mind is a garden
Experiences, its fruits
Everything is a community plot of gardens.
When you help create new seeds (via altruistic action and intention)
Everyone’s garden gets a little crosspollination

Compassion, because it’s hard to grow in these parts.
Sympathetic joy, because it’s amazing when someone succeeds and we want to see them prosper. We all prosper when they do.
Equality, because we are all one garden, together.
Love, to see the ease and happiness we will for ourselves reflected in every face and smile in the world.

To defy the style organic is to defy nature herself

To act

Identify needs, identify a person with a similar need; housing, transport, wealth, career, freedom, relationship, free-time.
Preponderance. Consider positively what assistance can be offered, small research, small moves, big research, big moves, whatever might be of aid.
Meet with them. Keep the attitude.
Joyfully reflect on having helped someone. Joyfully reflect on having created new seed clusters for your friend, yourself, the world community garden.
Joyful reflection is like watering and sunshining the garden. Addressing needs (be they immediate, gradual, or ongoing) is the action of planting seeds into fertile soil, necessity is a fertile breeding ground for Satisological culmination.