The Return to Nature
The Return to the Earth
To the elements
To what gives life and nourishes
To what connects us
With the essence of things
As they are
naked
Without covering them,
altering them,
or discarding them
This is the meeting
I am having every day
from when I rise
until I lie down.
I’m returning little by little
to recognize that my life’s path
has to be baptized
with life,
Has to be sacralized
with the presence of the elements
that form my body.
The elements!
The foundation
of all existence
which is why they are sacred
for all communities of peoples
who live in harmony
with nature,
with the sky and with the cosmos.
The water that cleans
purifies, nurtures, hydrates
also baptizes.
The air that oxygenates,
purifies and nourishes
is the life thread
of the ethereal
where the soul dwells.
The fire, hot and consuming,
regenerating
and transmuting
is the key to alchemy.
Under the ardent sun
one receives the cosmic energy.
The earth
solid, pasty
malleable, absorbs
regenerates, revitalizes
and returns everything to its origin.
She is the mother
where we are all reborn.
The four elements
are the foundation
the very nature,
of the body that you possess
and the spirit that you are.
Stop for a moment
And stay conscious
of your body and the elements,
because you are fire, water
earth and wind.
Meet them
before this
body returns to earth
and goes
back to ashes
do it now
while there is consciousness.
The elements are sacred,
because they are never born nor die–
just transformed
and constantly.
Wise people of the past knew this
and is why they worshiped them.
They understood their bodies
to be mud, water, fire and air.
They were not ignorant
because they honored the rising sun
or the moon in all its facets
because they worshiped rivers
and freshwater lakes
or brought offerings to the sea
as the origin of life.
No, not ignorant–
to the contrary,
they recognized the source
from which life rises
and where all existence
finally returns.
They blessed
the fruits of the earth
with water
and purified its toxins
with fire,
knowing that nature’s way
was the only way
to remain healthy
vital and active.
They saw that human spirit
only blossoms where everything flows
and that paradise is not
in a faraway place
But right here when we open our eyes
and see clearly
that we are nature itself
and there is no separation
between she and us.
That our flesh energetically
is the earth
and that water predominates
our bodies,
the air infuses life and allows
us to exist, fire is the same heat
that we generate from inside
our own selves.
We are life itself
eternally birthing!
Noris Binet © 2/14/17.
Guadalajara, Vida Sana, Mexico