Desert Teachings
Recently, a visit to Eden Hot Springs in northeastern Arizona showed me that the desert is many, many things and I thought I had experienced them all but I soon found out that not all the teachings have revealed themselves to me even after 35 years of living here. I remember listening to an herbal lecture once as the speaker described the desert to be an open energy where there is expansion and bareness and vulnerability but that the forest, in contrast, is womb-like, closed
