right action & relationship ( 07 jan 07 mon)

Right action comes in understanding relationship…

Relationship is our problem, and without understanding relationship, merely to beactive is to produce further confusion, further misery. Action is relationship: tobe is to be related. Do what you will—withdraw to the mountains, sit in a forest—youcannot live in isolation. You can live only in relationship, and as long asrelationship is not understood, there can be no right action. Right action comes inunderstanding relationship, which reveals the process of oneself. Self-knowledge isthe beginning of wisdom; it is a field of affection, warmth, and love, therefore afield rich with flowers.