November 12th, 2011 | Blog, Quotes, demoralised, environment, healing, Mencius, spirit, spiritual, treed, understanding
The trees on Ox Mountain were once beautiful. However because the mountain is on the borders of a great state, they were cut down with axes and saws, so how could they retain their beauty? Yet they continued through the cycle of life and the feeding of the rain and dew to put forth buds and new leaves. But the cattle and the goats came and browsed amongst the trees and destroyed them.
This is why the mountain is now bare and stripped. People look at it and think this is how it has always been. But this is not the true nature of the mountain. And this is also the case with humanity. Surely we were not without benevolence and righteousness? The way in which a person loses their true goodness is just like the way that trees are destroyed by the axe. Cut down day after day, how can the mind, anymore than the tree, retain its beauty or continue to live?
-Mencius
October 26th, 2011
I've recently been spending some time down at Village #Occupy Vancouver as well as reading Robert Anton Wilson's book Prometheus Rising. What a great combination. What is happening at Village #Occupy is so inspiring. I am just thrilled everyday for every minute I can be down there. We are especially ...
September 30th, 2011
Angst about the body robs a of her creative life and her attention to other things. -p218
These quotes from Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes seem appropriate given all of the crazy things going on in our world these days. It is hard to imagine how powerful the simple act o ...
September 12th, 2011
Spending time in Burma, I have seen this type of education in effect in the most basic manner possible. Children are generally made to sit on stools, still as boards. They spend hours reciting things, sometimes in English, with no knowledge of what they are saying. This is not authentic education, w ...
September 6th, 2011
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the high ...
August 12th, 2011
In the South Pacific there was a genius monkey. It is well known that monkeys love yams, but on that island the yams were too sandy to be eaten. This genius monkey took a yam and washed it in the edge of the sea, and then taught her family to do the same. Before long, other members of the tribe ...
August 8th, 2011
This old Chinese saying cracks me up every time...hope you enjoy it as much as I do :)
Man must sit in chair
With mouth open for
Very long time
Before roast duck fly in
-Chinese proverb ...
July 12th, 2011
Wage Peace with your breath
Breathe in firemen and rubble,
Breathe out whole buildings, and flocks of red-wing blackbirds.
Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children, and freshly mown fields.
Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.
Breathe in the fallen. And breathe out l ...
June 15th, 2011
One of my favorite books is The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke. I read it twice when in New Zealand staying at this very remote bach on a secret beach. Since today is one of 2011's lunar eclipses I wanted to share this excerpt today. I have been thinking about this particular section quite a bit ...
December 1st, 2010
Wednesday is the day I pick up my raw milk from a local urban drop point and it is also Real Food Wednesdays over at Kelly the Kitchen Kop's blog. She has a great round-up of all kinds of real food related posts and recipes every Wednesday from the realfood blogosphere. I have come to really look fo ...
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