Learning how to relate to Nature through lessening how to properly relate to other people

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJul 15, 2020

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Question from the Internet:

“Why is it important to care about the Natural environment, when Nature doesn’t care about us?”

That is an interesting statement. After all Nature is like a parent that gave us life and provides us with everything we need to survive and love like “Kings” in is system. The Natural system opened itself up and we can use its infinite treasure chest for everything we want.

Relationships are always mutual, two-sided. Even between people we reveal how about feels towards us only when we start to relate to that person seriously. Moreover we always receive in relationships exactly what we deserve according to what we give.

Relationships are like mirrors, if we want a good relationships from someone, we have to make sure we relate to that person in a positive manner, not how we think it is positive, but how that other person considers it positive.

Which means that first of all we need to get to know that other person, so we will know how to relate to them positively the way they want it not how we imagine.

This is the problem with most of our relationship, we “love”, we “give”, according to our own egocentric, subjective calculations, so we actually cause harm to the other by selfishly “loving”, “giving” them instead of investigating what they truly need.

And it is the same with Nature.

Our relation towards Nature has always been like how petulant, demanding, ungrateful children relate to their parents, only caring about what they can receive, constantly demanding, exploiting even if it destroys the parents. And those children usually hate their parents as they always want more than they receive.

If we truly want to get to know Nature’s system, how it creates, nurtures, develops life, driving the whole system towards the most perfect state through its plan of evolution, first we would need to become similar to the system and start recognizing it through this similarity.

After all even in Human relationships we can know, discover someone only when we “stand in their shoes”, see reality through their eyes.

Thus we can judge, define Nature only when we ourselves became “like it”, selfless, altruistic, unconditionally serving, giving and nurturing life.

And since it is difficult to reach such relationship towards the Natural system, we need to practice such qualities, attitude towards other people, we would normally have no “loving”, altruistic relationship to.

For this we have a unique, purposeful and highly practical method.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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