Nature is so passionate that it gives us the most unexpected answers when we didn’t even think it might exist beyond our own minds, our own hopes, and our own desire to move forward. Far from showing a monotonous and predictable reality, every corner and the crack in which nature springs freely leaves us with a new teaching about what it means to inhabit this world.
Not only is he generous to science, but also to our own senses and spirituality, so much so that, in the great diversity of manifestations, species and phenomena it provokes, we are faced with real lessons on how to face life. theories without variable control or reliability or validity analysis, but containing a message whose beauty and meaning are indisputable.
- Among all the infinite and curious phenomena of nature is the lotus flower.
- A phenomenon that is a passionate metaphor for the life and adversities that we face every day.
Lotus flower is a type of water lily whose roots are based on sludge and alms of ponds and lakes, the lotus flower has the seed with greater longevity and resistance: it can last up to 30 centuries before flowering without losing its fertility.
The lotus flower is a symbol of purity and beauty that can appear in a wetland.
This beautiful flower emerges and feeds on clay, in marshes or marshy places, and when it blooms it rises above the mud; at night, the flower petals close and dip underwater; it closes to dive, but at dawn it rises in dirty water, intact and without traces of impurity by the arrangement of its spiral-shaped petals.
The lotus flower has the peculiarity of being the only flower that is fruit at the same time: the fruit is shaped like an inverted cone and is located inside, when the flower is closed it does not smell, but when it opens its aroma is reminiscent of the hyacinth. Many find its aroma fascinating, capable of altering the state of consciousness.
The fascination with this flower has made it a fundamental symbol for various civilizations throughout history, the lotus flower is considered sacred and one of the oldest symbols with different meanings for Eastern countries, although we also find several references to them in the Western world.
In Greek mythology, the Lotophages were a mystical people identified by the ancients as the inhabitants of a village in northeastern Africa. Legend has it that a beautiful goddess was lost in a forest until she reached a place where mud, called a lotus, abounded, where it sank.
This space had been created by the gods for beings whose destiny had been to fail in life, however, the young woman fought for thousands of years until she managed to emerge transformed into a magnificent lotus flower, symbol of the triumph of perseverance in opposite situations.
In the Buddhist context, the lotus serves as a seat or throne for Buddha and indicates a divine birth. In the Christian world, the lotus flower is the white lily that means both fertility and purity. Traditionally, the archangel Gabriel brings the lily of the gods. Annunciation to the Virgin Mary.
The lotus flower represents the power of psychological resistance, as well as the ability to transform adversity into potentiality. Suzanne C. Kobasa, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, has conducted a series of surveys in which she has found that people with resilient personalities have a number of characteristics in common. In general, they are very committed, controlled and challenging.
“The most beautiful people I have ever had the opportunity to meet are those who have experienced defeat, experienced suffering, experienced struggle, experienced loss and found a way out of the depths. -Elisabeth Kobler-Ross-
This explanation then became the term resilience, the essence of resilient personality.
Resilience is defined as people’s ability to overcome periods of emotional pain and great adversity.
The lotus flower implies a wonderful metaphor for how there are people who are able to double the pain and then deploy it in the form of serenity, self-control and perseverance.