Yasuhiko Genku Kimura, author of the Paraview Cosimo title The Book of Balance — a modern, visionary translation of the classic ancient text Tao Teh Ching — recently visited Brazil, and was inspired by the beauty of the landscape and his interaction with it to pen “The Soul of Nature, The Soul of Brazil: Meditations in the Heart of the Rainforest”:

To know the soul of nature is to tap-in to the illimitable source of creativity and to tune-in to the perennial celebration of plenitude. To know the soul of nature is to overcome and transcend any notion of scarcity. Yet, the notion of scarcity is a fundamental assumption that imprisons the mind and controls the action of humanity.

In reality, nature as a whole is abundant and knows no scarcity. Humanity, because of its highly evolved adaptive capability, explored and lived in every conceivable environment and location, overcoming any regional or seasonal scarcity with its creativity and ingenuity. Even if the outer natural resources may be locally limited or scare, the inner human resourcefulness is non-locally unlimited and plenteous. The abundance of nature thus becomes transformed to the ampleness of the human resourcefulness—i.e., intelligence, creativity, imagination, and ingenuity.

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