In law school they use, for the most part, the case method to teach you about the law which means that you go through an appellate review of a case, which means a higher-court review of a case, and they write about what it is and then they show you the conclusions. And what you learn from that is that you have to understand the point of the case. What’s the issue? What’s the real issue as opposed to the peripheral issues? And lawyers use this technique to try and change what the issue is if what confronts you head-on doesn’t seem to be something that can make a good impression on the judge.
For example: instead of arguing the merits of pornography, they argue the Constitutional Right to do what you want. So all of a sudden pornography is no longer the issue; the issue is individual rights, and by moving the issue and getting a judge to agree that that’s the issue, the pornographers have been able to declare pornography constitutionally acceptable, even though 70 years ago, 50 years ago, 60 years ago, 40 years ago it was not constitutionally acceptable because of the fact that it was pornography. But now they’ve stopped talking about pornography.
Well, it’s like that in our lives. We have to decide; what are the issues that we are going to consider important, and what are the issues that we are not going to consider important, and what is the result that we’re trying to strive for? For the lawyer it’s a very easy question. What they’re trying to do is get a favorable verdict for their client. In other words, they’re trying to establish that a certain point of view is valid; their point of view.
Now for us, what is the point of view that we’re trying to establish as valid in our life and what is it that we’re trying to accomplish in our life? What is it that we’re trying to do?
Now, if you look outside you’ll see flowers. At different times of the year you’ll see more flowers than at other times of the year and flowers are very pretty. They come in many colors and you can be very fascinated by the blues, and the reds, and the magentas, and the oranges and the other colors, and they all have different leaf patterns. And these can transfix you, “My God, look at the way they’re formed.”
But to a honey bee, they don’t look at the flowers for their color. They don’t look at the flower for their leaf patterns. They look at the flower for what’s inside, in the midst of the flower, and they dive deep into the middle of the flower to get what it is that they need in order to create honey. They’re looking for the nectar. Now in the process of looking for the nectar they accomplish a whole lot of other things. Like by going from flower to flower to flower and picking up the pollen that’s in the flower while they’re getting the nectar, they then ensure the growth of more flowers.
But, they have a very one-pointed point of view; they are not distracted by peripheral issues. Now, we can certainly spend time talking about the colors, talking about the leaf patterns, talking about the growth pattern or the growth style, the seed formations that come from these things, whether they’re bulbs or some other kind of flower, but if you‘re trying to create honey there’s only one thing to look at and only one thing to do; and that’s to dive deep into the flower in order to get what’s needed to go back and create what the bee creates.
