As near as I can tell, the universe works on naturalness. Like, by definition. "The Work" is, by and large, to [[Subtraction, Tetris|brush away]] the many obstacles to naturalness and restore things to the state where they just happen. Water naturally flows downhill. If it's not doing that, there are obstructions that need to be cleared somewhere. Lions naturally sleep and hunt. If one isn't doing that, there's some disease or dysfunction that needs to be rebalanced, to restore him to health. (Health etymologically, means wholeness.) Sand on a [[The Cymatic Metonym|cymatic plate]] naturally falls into its shifting mandala patterns. If it doesn't do that, it's because there's an obstruction on the plate, or in the speaker, or because you're actively swishing the sand around to stop it from naturally settling where it wants to. Humans tend to envy the natural world for its naturalness, its lack of effort in doing what needs to be done. (Rilke: *the sly animals see at once / how little at home we are / in the interpreted world*.) But naturalness is available to us any time. We've just built up a lot of things to interrupt it, and those need to be broken down. A lot of this can sound mystical, and mystics tend to be the ones who point to it most. But it's not a separate thing from lived, normal life. Iain McGilchrist makes the point (encyclopedically, exhaustively, and somewhat exhaustingly), that the "[["Right Hemisphere" is a Misnomer for "Whole Person"|right hemisphere]]" is better at pretty much every single thing that the left hemisphere thinks of itself as being better at. And within that frame, the "right hemisphere" (click that link above for my problems with that term), is the part of us that is natural, that naturally does the naturalness thing. It's not the case that "oh sure, mystics can chase naturalness and true nature, but the rest of us have to make sure society works." It's the case that society would work much better, and you'd be much better at your job (and that the job would change quite naturally) if we removed a lot of these artificial blocks to naturalness. (Admittedly, this takes time and effort, to get to the point of natural effortlessness. But so does whatever else you're doing, so.)