Parable of the Sower, the Seed, and the Ground

He began to teach them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: 

“Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell on the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and it sprang up quickly, since it had no depth of soil.  And when the sun rose, it was scorched; and since it had no root, it withered away. Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no grain. Other seed fell into good soil and brought forth grain, growing up and increasing and yielding thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.” And he said, “Let anyone with ears to hear listen!” (Mark 4: 1-9)

The Cosmos is an information system. We are embodyings of the Cosmos. We generally do not think of ourselves as such. We often shut ourselves off and wander around in isolation -- isolated protoplasmic blobs. No information, no knowledge, no understanding flows through. We have eyes only for ourselves. 

At other times, we enclose ourselves in social friendship. The height and width and depth of understanding depends upon the awareness base and the focus of the group. The consciousness state of some groups is “rocky ground” with no “depth of soil.” The focus of some groups can be quite thorny. No new awareness can take hold.

With these two ways of being, isolated closedness or participation in social groups with no depth of soil, even the birds , perhaps especially the birds, receive greater awareness and understanding.

With other social friendships, awareness expands and the ever flowing information, knowledge, and understanding from the Cosmos that births us finds good ground and a good crop of “grain” is produced. 

The seed is here, is always here. We ourselves create the ground of closed rigidity or of open receptive awareness.