17)いつ花を処分すれば良いか花に聞いた◆Asking the flowers when to dispose them
(English translation below)
切り花の世話をしている人は、もちろんその花を処分するのは花がある程度弱って来たり枯れ始めた時でしょうが、植物と少しずつコミュニケーションが取れるようになって来てから、切り花の場合は果たしてどうして欲しいのかが気になり始めました。
確かに観賞用や飾りとしては、少しでも枯れて来たら綺麗でなくなるので、その花の部分だけをつまみ取るとか、全体を処分てしまいます。でも、お花の方もせっかく咲いて来て、短い命なのだから、できる限り飾ってあげた方がいいのかなぁ、と考えてみたり。
丁度飾っていた切り花が家にあったので、直接その疑問を問うてみた。声を出してではなく、もちろん心で、意識を通して。考えたのとほぼ同時にかもしれない、すぐ答えが返って来た。意識を通して。それは、「美しい間に処分して欲しい」だった。植物とのコミュニケーションは大抵その気持ちを感じ、醜くなった姿は見られたくない、という思いが伝わって来た。だからお花の世話を良くされている人がやっている事は正しかった。少しでも弱って来たら、少しでも枯れかかって来たら…お花は自分が綺麗なままで見ていてもらいたいので、処分して欲しいのだ。
Those who care for cut flowers would of course dispose the flowers when they look weaker or whither, but as I came to be able to communicate with plants a little, I started to wonder what acutally the flowers themselves want us to do.
True, if the flowers are there to appreciate or for decorations, they will not be attractive enough to look at, so either the tip flower part will be taken off or the whole flower will be disposed. However, the flowers have finally bloomed and they only have such short lives, so I wonderred perhaps I should keep them as long as possible.
I just had some cut flowers at home, so I asked directly to the flowers about that. Not vocally, but from my mind. The answer came back, through my mind, as soon as I thought of the question in my head, and that was, "Take us away while we still look beautiful." Communication with plants come through feelings often, and I could feel that the flowers didn't want us to see them looking ugly. Which means, the people who take care of flowers were doing what was right, If the flowers started to weaken or wither... the flowers want us to see them while they are beautiful, so that is the time when they want us to dispose them.
As I knew about the flowers' feelings, my mind overlapped with the beautiful women in the world: the Shaman Queen Himiko of andcient Japan, Cleopatra and those beautiful actresses we all know ...
