Nature and humans

I have wondered for a while how our interaction with nature is supposed to be.

I have come to learn that our role when interacting with nature is to give the intent. But what is this?

Nature is everything we can think about. And because of that it is difficult to understand what nature is not.

Thoughts are nature, the body is nature, the mind is nature, ideas are nature, so how is it that I am a being to direct nature if it seems I am also nature.

Well, that I have no idea yet. But what I have seen is that in some ways we have already interacted with nature in a way where we both add our gifts.

Tamed animals have allowed us to interact with nature in the very way we are meant to interact with all of nature.

A real domesticated animal loves his owner as much as its owner loves it. A horse and its rider, both add something to the co-creative process of transportation. The horse without the rider would have no aim, it would just do what it does. But when put together with its rider they both can reach an aim which the horse would not have and that the rider would not easily reach without the horse. The horse thus gives its power and the man gives the direction. The direction in this instance is what is carried, and where the load is going to be taken to.

In this association, neither of them is more important or less important than the other. If the horse dies or feels bad, then the rider won't be able to reach it aim. And if the rider dies or feels bad, the horse won't reach the aim either. Furthermore, if the two of them are by the desert and one of them gets sick or dies, the other will probably get sick or die as well. Hence, both the horse and the rider takes care of the other.

The interesting thing about this is that, we humans as individuals have understood this for thousands of years, but as a community we have forgotten.

We have gotten to think that earth and humans are separate. We think that earth does not require our care, or protection. We instead of giving direction to a possible association with earth, we have gotten to only take from it.

It is like if the rider got to kill the horse just for a snack when standing in the middle of the desert. It is true he would calm his hunger but his odds of dying would increase. Also, he would not be able to reach his aim or enjoy ridding the horse.

Earth is far more stronger, but eventually it gives up and "dies" on us.

We should reconsider our techniques of dealing with earth and become associates as we have done with other beings. Where we both serve and love each other.