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Author profile
Doris Richter has been working in the medical industry for over 35 years with a focus on naturopathic medicine and the development of natural remedies. She and her husband Sven have been working as natural care health professionals in a complementary medicine practice, they developed among other things tree essences, worked with complementary dentistry and various natural complex remedies that promote good health. Doris has written books about holistic healing, she has lectured about important role models in history and written books about the language of symbols. She has also published audio books about the history of symbols that promote the balance in mind and body during health and illness. She is also a trainer and instructor for therapist in the areas of spiritual homoeopathy and tree medicine as well complementary dentistry.
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Conflict and Description
Through his individuality, every human being gains his own experiences. These experiences, which shape his character, are transformed into insight during the course of his life, from which source he can then draw. To show leniency towards the development process of the other will transform the dark seeds of intolerance and, in time, will render them harmless. The word “tolerance” was originally borrowed from the Latin „tolerare“, which means as much as "to endure". If we understand that this word is also related to patience, then we will also understand that, in this context, the depreciation of a person or the depreciation of his behaviour has something to do with our own personal impatience.
If we ourselves feel depreciated time and again, we can check by looking into our past behaviour, into where and to what extent we ourselves have depreciated others. If we are honest with ourselves, we will learn about the dark Spirit of machinations, and how this Spirit creates weakness between people through dispute and discord. Something that happened to us, and which now seems unjust in the present, has perhaps grown from our own self, and is being shown as in a mirror. Once we have obtained clarity about reflections or projections, we will also recognise that only forgiveness, and the renunciation of continuing in the same old way, can now rescue us, in the present time, from those dark entanglements that have resulted from a chain of circumstances in the past.
This knowledge about the circumstances makes us strong, and, from then on, we will quietly pay attention to how we relate to others. We will learn to linger in attentiveness, and, from then onwards, we will minutely check the following criteria:
Do we value or devalue our fellow human beings in thought, word and action?
Are we benevolent in our interaction with them?
Can we present and pursue our needs in all honesty?
And are we also always prepared to help people in their inadequacies, wherever we can?
Or do we remain indifferent, and slowly find our hearts hardening, deep down?
1.SECTION
No. 22 Yew tree
Key: Knowledge
Virtue: Leniency
Vice: Intolerance
2.SECTION
No. 13 Willow tree
Key: Transformation
Virtue: Renunciation (tyãgah)
Vice: Negative chains
3.SECTION
No. 4 Mammoth tree
Key: Lingering
Virtue: Benevolence
Vice: Hardening
Under the supporting influence of the medicine we contemplate:
Leniency and the shadow-side of this virtue, the dark seed of intolerance, can be encountered through consciousness about relationships. In this way, we will gather the knowledge we need in order to be able to be more tolerant in our dealings with our partner. Remember that tolerance is the key to patience, and that patience is a fertile ground for love, without which the human being simply cannot live in health, prosperity and spiritual wealth.
If we take this insight into our daily meditation and linger in tranquillity, then, at the same time, we will also foster, at much deeper mental levels, the healing of destructive emotions, which could hinder our common path, and our meditation will plant golden seeds in our heart.
Conflict and Description
In its innermost being, silence has two faces. One face is characterised by tranquillity, which creates all that is Great. The other, drawn by speechlessness, will be forced to show its countenance to the world at those times in which the changes in the cycles cannot be adequately lived in rhythm.
In the same way as there are times of silence during a human relationship between partners, so also are there times when it is absolutely necessary to concentrate, so that one can achieve in one’s mind that which has to be put into the world by the Word, and to also point out boundaries. Speech is a divine gift, which only Man has received in this perfected form, as a tool in dealing with his fellow man.
A tool must never remain unused, however, because it is only ready for meaningful use through its presence in the hand of Man. The speech of man should not only be used, but should also provide stimulation, because, in this way, it always gives a spark of light to the opposite party. And this is what the Spirit of Truth deep in the heart of every human being hopes for. To be speechless, on the other hand, is to miss the opportunity of making contact through the word, and is a habit that will result in an imbalance in the interpersonal equation, which will have consequences.
As a result, each of the partners is then trapped. One is trapped in silence, and feels ungratefulness, both in himself and in the other, and remains alone in his lack of expressiveness. The other possibly lives for the other, raises his voice and is in charge, but also remains alone.
Finding the right balance in communication with one another is the key. Often, restraint is quite simply renunciation. This strength, which the human being may make use of in contrast to his active role in life, helps him if it can result in him experiencing the truth about his own responsibility. The human being who can remain silent will learn how renunciation can be a relief in the truest sense of the word.
The Spirit of Silence will then sow his seed, and will become golden within the innermost being of a tranquil person, who learns the true meaning of listening. There, the seed then grows, and, for both personalities, selfdetermination will be a rich harvest in their partnership in the future. The inauspicious Spirit of Severity, who had possibly been dwelling in their midst for a long time, will evaporate, and it will soon be as if the Bitter One had never been there.
1.SECTION
No. 17 Hazel tree
Key: Gratitude
Virtue: Freedom frombeing trapped
Vice: Avarice
2.SECTION
No. 8 Pear tree
Key: Devotion
Virtue: Renunciation (Sanskrit: tapah)
Vice: Being trapped
Under the supporting influence of the medicine we contemplate:
Gratefulness for the balance within the relationship promotes our ability to communicate without violence. Injuring one another by thoughts and words provides the fuel for injuries through actions. In the past, human cultivation has developed to the point that it became clear to us that we should refrain from violence in our actions as far as possible. But only when we have also mastered violence in our thoughts and words – because even our thoughts have an enormous strength - will the word become the WORD, and our speech will have hatched from its egg of limitations. Only then we will be the human beings of the present, despite our past, and will be sure of a light-filled future in brotherhood. This development can start in small things, in the togetherness of our partnership, and we can then pass it on to our children and our children’s children. It must therefore start with us. We ourselves are in charge – in the truest sense of the word. But it must take place over the bridge of reconciliation.
Immersing ourselves into emptiness when we meditate fosters, in particular, the LOGOS in us, as the classical Greek scholars used to call the holy WORD. The WORD fosters the strength of human speech and helps us to understand, to respect our fellow man in his expression and, sometimes, by being silent, to simply encourage him, so that his being can communicate itself to the world in its entirety and perfection.
In the Jap Ji, the Bible of the Sikhs, the invocatory hymn states:
„Whatever comes into existence is a creation of the Word.“
| 25 CONFLICTS AND THEIR DESCRIPTION | YES | NO |
| 1. Depreciation | ||
| 2. Being silenced | ||
| 3. Suppression | ||
| 4. Meanness | ||
| 5. Exposure | ||
| 6. Existential fears | ||
| 7. Craving for power | ||
| 8. Jealousy | ||
| 9. Allowing oneself to be frightened | ||
| 10. Craving for criticism | ||
| 11. Envy | ||
| 12. Feeling helpless at someone’s mercy | ||
| 13. Lack of recognition | ||
| 14. Disrespectfulness | ||
| 15. Grumbling | ||
| 16. Extreme disappointment | ||
| 17. Disorders caused by intrigues | ||
| 18. Lovesickness | ||
| 19. Self-opinionated | ||
| 20. Addictions | ||
| 21. Feeling of desolation | ||
| 22. Wastefulness | ||
| 23. Recrimination | ||
| 24. Fits of rage | ||
| 25. Feeling exploited |
Conflict and Description
To be restricted more than is normal will make one feel suppressed. To be able to expand during the ups and downs of life is essential to the vitality of a human being. In the same way as a tree, over the years, requires space to stretch out its roots and its crown, this is also necessary for a human being. Suppression through limitation must be understood in its different categories. Depending on the circumstances, a human being may suffer from spatial, emotional or mental limitation. Sometimes, however, he may also suffer from all three at the same time, as one tends to accompany the other. These categories must first be differentiated in order for specific changes to be able to take place in the person’s life.
As we learn to share by being part of the human community, we also must learn to make certain demands for the benefit of our individual development. One person may learn quickly and naturally in one area, while another person may make progress more quickly in a different one. To harmonize with one another and to declare one’s needs without thereby “bulldozing” the other person gives us a strength that can be developed in the human heart through generous behaviour.
The awareness of this energy for growth and zest for life in the other person makes us strong and powerful. The power that can develop from this, however, is characterised by a gentle grip, which helps to support both the other person and ourselves in our actions, instead of restraining them.
In the same way as a tree can develop different strengths during the course of the seasons – some reaching outwards to find space, while others reach inwards in order to summon up strength for the next period of growth - so also must the human being heed his own cycles, the ups and downs of his own vitality and energy. When these are harmonised with those of the partner, the strengths of both can blend together into one powerful rhythm.
In this way, not only will each partner establish his own space and stability over the course of time, but, through the virtue of true modesty, both will learn that it is, in fact, precisely this attention for one another that will help ensure a painless birth within the cycles of time.
Continually paying conscious attention to the rhythm of life will cause the understanding for the deeper contexts between the nature of the human being and his spirit to grow. This will prepare the human being to accept new things with joy and confidence, even during difficult transformation phases. When we observe Nature, we also observe the Spirit, and it is as if we are reading in a golden book. In this way, we learn, and ignorance transforms itself into knowledge of the different contexts. In the end, we are truly and completely free from all suppression, wherever it may arise from. Our relationship with our partner and the release from our common compulsions have perhaps been a first step towards sincerity and togetherness in the sense of spiritual freedom, in which the study of the rhythms of nature as a holistic entity has been our just teacher.
1.SECTION
No. 25 Walnut tree
Key: Generosity
Virtue: Being free from envy and the obsessive craving for honour
Vice: Envy and wounded pride due to lack of recognition
2.SECTION
No. 16 Larch tree
Key: Modesty
Virtue: Compassion with all living beings
Vice: Lack of compassion
3.SECTION
No. 7 Chestnut tree
Key: Birth
Virtue: Study of the Holy Scriptures
Vice: Ignorance
Under the supporting influence of the medicine we contemplate:
Generosity can be especially found as a virtue in those people who have gathered experience. Experience, however, only accumulates in people in time over the course of a healthy, undisturbed rhythm. As everything that lives finds a partner for itself in life in the dimension of duality, who covers the matching jar like a lid, so does time also have a bond - it is bound to eternity. In truth, they are not always in disharmony with each other – they are in agreement and are always ready for the creation of greatness. The spirit of time does not suppress the spirit of eternity – and eternity never suppresses time. The human being can only learn this secret for himself in the silence within, and, through the practice of contemplation, he will know at the bottom of his heart that this truth may never be shared. And even should he wish to give away this insight, it will be his, for all eternity. Because every human being must develop experience within himself, and this is forced on us by time.
Conflict and Description
From the very beginning, all living beings have developed survival strategies. These change with the living being, and could be cultivated to the highest levels if we humans could discover the understanding to see the sense behind all diversity with a deep, empathic eye. Anyone who has learned to observe the water on earth in all its diversity will understand that the river must always follow a course of change that levels out the opposites along its path.
The works of man are characterised by his actions, and everything that he makes with his hands, how and with what actions he brings it about, will, in the end, give the completed action its particular note, and, sometimes, also a special mark. Starting the work, taking the actions within it and finishing it all take place within the change over the course of time. The Spirit of Give and Take rules. If it is well disposed towards the human being, because, through his pure thoughts, the latter submits to the community in gratitude for the ruling order, the human being will not obstruct himself by unclean actions. He creates and works through the power of his hands, and these are always accompanied by his good thoughts.
Finding a true task for oneself can only happen when the human being learns to be just in his relations with his fellow men. The quiet voice of the conscience is the very last to die. Only the inner ear is sometimes not ready and open.
But, if the human being is alone with his task, and feels dismayed and made heavy by his earthly existence, he can change course by refraining from criticism. The power of differentiation helps him to create strategies, although these tend to value the concept of war in the person who does not yet truly know. In peace, the human being will help his fellow men without any fear of losing something valuable, and will soon forget how to refuse to cooperate. In this way, he will at some stage lose his fear of loss completely. He will also lose the fight, and forget all the strategies for holding onto what cannot be held, and it exactly this that will make out his greatness.
Greatness is a prize that can only reveal itself to the world if one’s hands are free for participation in the great work of the community. For many people, a partner for life, and understanding for him, is a good start.