Monday, 3 March 2014
You have to realize that you are not your physical body, which is both perishable and impermanent. You have to look at this objective world with the eye of wisdom, not with the physical eye. The animals, the insects, the birds and the beasts are looking at this world with their physical eyes. If you too look at this objective world with mere physical eyes, what difference is there between you and those beings? You will then simply remain an animal, a bird, a beast or an insect. You will not be able to realize your true nature, which is beyond the physical world. You have to comprehend the transcendental reality, which is beyond the body and the mind. This is possible only with the help of the eye of wisdom. The body is like a water bubble. It will disappear one day or the other. You are not the body that has birth, growth, decay and, ultimately, death. I am divine..
Sunday, 2 March 2014
"Patterns are growing that link people together in new and diverse ways...it is these patterns of relationship that are so essential, that provide the simple answers to the complexity of the times. What we have yet to realize is that this is all a part of life recreating itself on the pattern of oneness. We see these changes with the eyes of individuality and fragmentation that focus on the individual parts. We are still caught in the complex images of decaying culture. The real picture is an emerging wholeness that is a life force in itself. Life is reconnecting itself in order to survive and evolve.... This life force has the urgency that is needed to survive and change at this time of crisis. It also has the power of oneness, and the simplicity of bringing people together. It is about sharing rather then possessiveness and isolation. It is the deep joy of knowing that we are ONE."
"One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.” ― Ben Okri, The Famished Road
That's t.... go for it.. be healed...
BEING IN TOUCH WITH HEALING ELEMENTS
"The blue sky, the flower, the river, the cloud, these things have a healing nature. If you allow yourself to be in touch with these healing elements, the wounds within your body and your mind will be healed. We should allow ourselves to be healed, and therefore, we should allow ourselves to be in the heart of life, which contains so many wonderful things, like the children, the flower, and so on... The seeds in our consciousness can function like anti-bodies. What is important is that you continue to plant new seeds, the kind of seeds that are both refreshing and healing. And if you just do that, by practicing mindful living so that you can be in touch with the flower, with the cypress tree, with the fresh air, with the beautiful eyes of the children, then these seeds will be planted in yourself, and they will naturally take care of the seeds of your suffering. You don't even have to touch them."
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The world's largest solar plant officially opened this week in the California desert. It produces a gross total of 392 megawatts (MW) of solar power, enough electricity to provide 140,000 homes with clean energy and avoid 400,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, equal to removing 72,000 vehicles off the road. But it's complicated. It uses lots of land—a staggering 5 square miles—and growing evidence shows that the intense heat surrounding the tower and mirror technology (reaches 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit) is killing birds. What's the solution?
"I am a Western scientist with a rapturous spiritual-Druidic relationship with Nature. It is the reductionist methodology (which I find heartbreaking) of science and not necessarily scientists, creating divisions. We "Westerners" have indigenous roots too. I believe that by collectively reclaiming our roots and acknowledging the events and history in between, we are empowered to stand together in the face of Ecocide." —Shri Nageshvari Verrill in response to a recent post on Spiritual Ecology regarding the intersection of science and indigenous knowledge.
I walked with giants And talked with ancestors As I looked down the millennia At the branching and twisting of the Tree of life Immersed in Deep Time I contemplate My relatives, now extinct for aeons And those who teeter on the edge today I stand humbled Heart heavy with grief And ponder my place in the cosmos. —Andrew Jones
"Every tradition includes teachings that expand the self in widening circles of identification. You can learn to draw the circle of the self so wide that the body of earth becomes your larger body, with the rivers like your veins, the rainforests your lungs. Through our desire to protect what we love, we can recognize our interconnectedness with all life." —Joanna Macy
You got to understand this very important truth.... When your heart becomes the masjid, the temple, the church, the synagogue, the alter, the outward place of worship will disappear. Where does the Sun go to pray? And the bee? And the beetle? Don't worry about the collapse and the burning and the demolition of the outward structure. Focus instead on what has appeared in the heart. ~ With thanks to Barefoot Ra Ra
Saturday, 1 March 2014
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