PEACE THROUGH KINDNESS, & KINDNESS THROUGH PEACE
THERE ARE NO THROWAWAY PEOPLE. -Neem Karoli Baba
a poet is someone who can pour light into a cup, then raise it to nourish your beautiful, parched, holy mouth. hafiz
Let us love & care for our Mother Earth
In All Her Extraordinary Forms
this is at molokini crater, hawaii. in winter months,
you can hear humpback whales u/w almost all the time,
and often you can see them as well. let this please
inspire you to help protect & preserve our beautiful earth!
love, lalita
4 of the 6 world species of turtle are nearing extinction; sea lions in remote hawaiian islands are starving to death mysteriously en masse; birds stomachs are filled with human trash; coral reefs are dying at alarming rates; the killer whales in the alaskan pacific are so poisoned by industrial pollutants that their bodies are labelled toxic waste - and they are not surviving; everyday species go extinct,..... and most of these are due to human pollution, deforestation, & over-fishing. WE CAN HELP: with our awareness & our choices every moment, every day. (for example: buy bulk, reduce your trash, recycle, drive less, eat organic, wear organic, plant trees plants & flowers - organically, and practice kindness: then we can help to protect & honor the vast beauty of Earth. =).
we can all thrive
...in a green society.
PLEASE LEARN & LIVE BY THIS!
"Verses for Environmental Practice" by Robert Aitken
Waking up in the morning
I vow with all beings
to be ready for sparks of the Dharma [Natural Reality, or God]
from flowers or children or birds.
Sitting alone in zazen [meditation]
I vow with all beings
to remember I'm sitting together
with mountains, children, and bears.
Looking up at the sky
I vow with all beings
to remember this infinite ceiling
in every room of my life.
When I stroll around in the city
I vow with all beings
to notice how lichen and grasses
never give up in despair.
Watching a spider at work
I vow with all beings
to cherish the web of the universe:
touch one point and everything moves.
Preparing the garden for seeds
I vow with all beings
to nurture the soil to be fertile
each spring for the next 1000 years.
When people praise me for something
I vow with all beings
to return to my vegetable garden
and give credit where credit is due.
With tropical forests in danger
I vow with all beings
to raise hell with the people responsible
and slash my consumption of trees.
With resources scarcer and scarcer
I vow with all beings
to consider the law of proportion:
my have is another's have-not.
Watching gardeners label their plants
I vow with all beings
to practice the old horticulture
and let plants identify me.
Hearing the crickets at night
I vow with all beings
to keep my practice as simple -
just over and over again.
Falling asleep at last
I vow with all beings
to enjoy the dark and the silence
and rest in the vast unknown.
quoted in Dharma Rain,
by Stephanie Kaza & Kenneth Kraft, Shambhala, Boston, 2000,
pages 471-473
