A Vertical Growth
If you are balanced you are Zorba the Buddha.
People need to be so awake that their whole consciousness goes to the deepest part of their being, and also to the highest peak. A vertical growth, just like a tree grows. Its roots go down into the earth, and its branches spread towards the stars. Its blossoms flower into the sky, its nourishment comes from the deepest part of the earth. It is always balanced; higher the tree goes, the deeper it’s roots.
You cannot have a Cedar of Lebanon, a 400- or 500-year old tree, rising so high in the sky, with small roots—it will fall down immediately. Life needs a balance between the depth and the height.
In your entering to the Center in meditation, you are growing your roots deeper into the Cosmos. And bringing the Buddha out from the hidden center is bringing your fragrance, bringing your grace, bringing your ecstasy, higher, where it can blossom into the sky.
Your ecstasy is a movement toward the height, and your meditation is a movement towards the depth, and once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.
