one flower

A Single Flower, In the Heart

Sen no Rikyū once said,
“Arrange flowers as they are in the wild.”

It is not about replicating their form.
It is about recalling the essence—the subtle presence
of a flower once standing in the wind,
bathed in light, rooted in the earth,
living in its purest, quietest way.

Beauty lies not in numbers or embellishments,
but in what remains when all is stripped away—
in the essence that lingers, unadorned.
Only when the superfluous is gone,
does the true meaning of being emerge.

To be a single flower,
is to offer a space for all that one cannot say.
It is the silence that speaks louder,
the prayer that remains unsaid, yet deeply felt.

“Only because it is one.”

Keep a single flower in your heart.
It may be a quiet answer,
or perhaps, the beginning of one—
to the timeless question of what it means to live.