Is nature an inanimate thing?

I wonder whether nature is really animate or inanimate.

I often think not out of spiriutality or science or philosophy nature is as organic as I am. I feel stone has a life.

I always love animals, birds and insects.

But at times I imagine the sun, the moon, the stars above my head are all living beings.

Life flows through all entities and substances in nature.

I do not like to pluck flowers to offer to Idols and I do not want to kill insects even if they damage my crops.

Ijust want to know and share with those who have the same or similar feelings as I do.

This is really interesting to share

[Apakhana Akshobhya]

Why has no one answered this thread? Lol.

I think all those things are living in a sense that htey exist and their energy is always interacting with other things but I feel the same way you do regarding sharing life with everything else, even the bugs. People treat life as if they are the most important thing but if we ever even look up at the stars we should realize how insignificant we really are and how ridiculously small allot of our problems can be.

Originally Posted by Apakhana Akshobhya

Why has no one answered this thread? Lol.

I think all those things are living in a sense that htey exist and their energy is always interacting with other things but I feel the same way you do regarding sharing life with everything else, even the bugs. People treat life as if they are the most important thing but if we ever even look up at the stars we should realize how insignificant we really are and how ridiculously small allot of our problems can be.

You have a broad vision and could understand the essence of my thread and the rest are lacking this and still some others are dimwitted. This is the subtlest issue I am raising here of all on this spirituality forum.

In fact I feel everything has a life though we are not enlightened to see that reality. It demands of us a great amount of insight, sensibility and humility to understand this deeper reality. Reality is one thing but layered and we see the superficial layer or the surface of it mostly since our vision or sens cannot penetrate deeper than that.

I love everything in nature, and even small pebbles I gathered from rivers and played with are living beings. I cannot convince you from a scientific lens. It is totally a spiritual issue.

That is why this could not attract many commentators or posters. I do not care and just you read it and could comprehend the deeper meaning of it and that suffices. And with this my objective is reached.

[norseman]

Actually, I was a bit confused over the need to ask the question. The Gaia Hypothesis [ now upgraded to Gaia Theory] has been around for over 40 years and the original statement still stands. The whole planet is a holistic organism which modifies conditions to favour life - this whole planet is alive.

[Mathew James]

The universe is alive...and it is growing at rates and dimensions far beyond human understanding

Animate. A living breathing organism made of groups of other organisms co-habitating to ensure the environments (natures) well being and to keep a healthy balance.

The elements and weather has souls of their own, as do trees and animals and the earth itself and every rock and crystal that is within it.

Everything is aware and alive in some way unless they are manmade and divorced from nature, in which case they would be inanimate.

[norseman]

True Matthew BUT Mother Earth is mother to us all. I really cannot relate to the universe whereas I can wander on the Earth

Originally Posted by supernova

I wonder whether nature is really animate or inanimate.

I think it is animate. We are just the parts that sprang up and decided to emulate it.

[Chrysaetos]

''Nature'' is of course a concept we have created. The same goes for the sea, ocean, rivers, lakes and mountains.
Where to draw the line? Where does a mountain, river or sea start and where does it end? They are mere concepts in our mind.
Individual beings (animal and plant life) however, clearly show aliveness.

[norseman]

Yes but, our bodies and souls [minds] come out of the body of Mother Earth. Therefore She must be animate.