Earth, Environment & Endangered Species 02 (Apr 11 - Sep 15)

[winston]

Do Humans Hurt Nature with their Thoughts, Feelings & Actions ? by Stuart Wilde

I saw an extraordinary vision that made we wonder if humans can kill nature with their thoughts, feelings and actions.

It’s been documented that certain people’s house plants die or their animals get overly sick, so it has been hypothesized that something in the person’s energy might be adversely affecting animals and nature.

I was shown a forest, it was autumn and a golden light reflected off the leaves, then gradually an over-sized shadow fell over it all, and I immediately recognized the shape. It was of this man here, in the American torture prison in Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

Abu Ghraib Torture Victim (image soloespolitica.com)

I could see the rough shape of the triangle that his cape made and the pointed hood, as the shadow of the Abu Ghraib man lay over the forest as an oversized silhouette, partly covering the trees and their leaves.

Then the Abu Ghraib shadow expanded and in a few minutes the forest that was so golden and bright became covered in darkness.

I took it to mean that human cruelty and evil can endarken nature, because that evil can flow along lines of the global morphogenetic life force field. So torture in Iraq could create disease in trees in Norway say, extraordinary as it might sound.

I’ve often wondered why, Gaia the spirit of nature, would care how evil humans became, but now I see she has a vested interest in making sure she rubs out evil, so as to protect her trees, plants and animals from harm.

Fascinating eh? It’s a very esoteric concept but I’m sure it’s true. Blow love at the trees it helps them.

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2013/01/do-h ... s-actions/

[winston]

Comet Approaches, 10 times Brighter than the Full Moon by Stuart Wilde

I saw a vision that something big would happen in November this year, I felt it odd, I saw no details and November is a long way off.

Then I read a huge comet is passing close to the earth at that time, it will be so close it will be 10 times brighter than the full moon.

It is going to be amazing to see.

http://www.stuartwilde.com/2013/02/come ... full-moon/

[winston]

How should we interact with Nature?

Spend your time in the contemplation of the beauties of Nature, that are spread out before you in the earth and sky.

Enjoy the green expanses of the crops, cool breezes that waft contentment and joy, the panorama of coloured clouds, the music of the birds, etc.

Sing the glory of the Divine as you walk in Nature, along the bunds of the fields and the banks of the canals.

Avoid polluting the air with vengeful boasts. Do not spend time in hateful talks when you see the Divine has created such wonderful evidences of love!

Living in these placid surroundings, you should not disturb the sky with your shouts and curses.

Any seed needs water and manure to grow and yield a rich harvest. So too, the tiny sapling of spiritual yearning for liberation from bondage also needs water and manure.

Just a wise farmer will care for his crops dearly, you must take care of your habits to reap the harvest of liberation.

- Divine Discourse, Sep 2, 1958.


Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Coastal cities face rising risk of flood losses: study

AFP - The world's 136 largest coastal cities could risk combined annual losses of $1 trillion (750 billion euros) from floods by 2050 unless they drastically raise their defences, a study warned Sunday.

With protection upgrades, the cities with the highest projected annual losses by 2050 were Guangzhou ($13.2 billion), Mumbai ($6.4 billion) and Kolkota ($3.4 billion) in India, Guayaquil ($3.2 billion) in Ecuador and Shenzhen ($3.1 billion) in China.

http://www.france24.com/en/20130818-coa ... sses-study

[winston]

What is the root cause of calamities and distress in Nature and the society? How can we fix them?

Just as a child is entitled to enjoy the milk from its mother, there can be no objection to man enjoying the resources of nature. But as a result of uncontrolled desires and reckless exploitation of natural resources, Nature is exhibiting frightening disorders.

Natural calamities like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, droughts and floods are the result of disturbances in the balance of Nature caused by this reckless exploitation.

Mankind today appears like a foolish man who is wielding the axe at the branch of a tree on which he is sitting. You have to develop a sense of spiritual oneness.

Out of that sense of oneness, love will grow. Man today does not recognise this sense of oneness.

‘Man’ is not the body alone. One has the mind, intellect and the Spirit (Atma) too. When the balance among these constituents is upset, people are plunged into troubles. On the other hand, when there is a balance, true humanness blossoms.

- Divine Discourse, Feb 13, 1997

Reform the body, reconstruct the mind, regulate the way of living, then the country will become automatically strong and prosperous.


Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Beauty and observation of nature

Many of you live in cities with all the crowds, noise, and dirt in the environment. Probably you have not often come across nature.

But there is this marvellous sea, and you have no relationship to it. You look at it, perhaps you swim there, but the feeling of this sea with its enormous vitality and energy, the beauty of a wave crashing upon the shore—there is no communication between that marvellous movement of the sea and yourself.

And if you have no relationship with that, how can you have relationship with another. If you don’t perceive the sea, the quality of the water, the waves, the great vitality of the tide going out and coming in, how can you be aware, or be sensitive to human relationship?

Please, it is very important to understand this, because beauty is not merely in the physical form, but beauty in essence is that quality of sensitivity, the quality of observation of nature.

- Krishnamurti, On Nature and the Environment, pp 84-85

Source: www.jkrishnamurti.com

[winston]

Relationship to nature

We must find out for ourselves what is the relationship between nature and each of us. That is part of religion.

You may not agree, but consider it, go into it. Have you any relationship with nature, with the birds, with the water of that river?

All rivers are holy, but getting more and more polluted: you may call it Ganges, or the Thames, the Nile, the Rhine, the Mississippi, or the Volga.

What is your relationship with all that—with the trees, with the birds, with all the living things that we call nature?

- Krishnamurti, On Nature and the Environment, pp 100-1

Source: www.jkrishnamurti.com

[winston]

It is our earth

I don’t know if any of you have noticed, early in the morning, the sunlight on the waters.

How extraordinarily soft is the light, and how the dark waters dance, with the morning stars over the trees, the only star in the sky.

Do you ever notice any of that? Or are you so busy, so occupied with the daily routine, that you forget or have never known the rich beauty of this earth—this earth on which all of us have to live?

Whether we call ourselves communists or capitalists, Hindus or Buddhists, Muslims or Christians, whether we are blind, lame, or well and happy, this earth is ours.

It is our earth, not somebody else’s; it is not only the rich man’s earth, it does not belong exclusively to the powerful rulers, to the nobles of the land, but it is our earth, yours and mine.

We are nobodies, yet we also live on this earth and we all have to live together. It is the world of the poor as well as of the rich, of the unlettered as well as of the learned; it is our world, and I think it is very important to feel this and to love the earth, not just occasionally on a peaceful morning, but all the time.

- Krishnamurti, This Matter of Culture, p 23


Source: www.jkrishnamurti.com

[winston]

If you hurt nature you are hurting yourself

Nature is part of our life. We grew out of the seed, the earth, and we are part of all that. But we are rapidly losing the sense that we are animals like the others.

Can you have a feeling for that tree, look at it, see the beauty of it, listen to the sound it makes; be sensitive to the little plant, to the little weed, to that creeper that is growing up the wall, to the light on the leaves and the many shadows?

One must be aware of all this and have the sense of communion with nature around you.

You may live in a town but you do have trees here and there.

A flower in the next garden may be ill-kept, crowded with weeds, but look at it, feel that you are part of all that, part of all living things.

If you hurt nature you are hurting yourself.

- Krishnamurti, Letters to the Schools vol II, p 71


Source: www.jkrishnamurti.com

[winston]

You are losing your relationship with nature

I wonder if you ask these questions of yourself when you look at those chestnut trees with their blooms like white candles against the blue sky.

What relationship exists between you and that, what relationship have you actually got (not emotionally nor sentimentally) what is your relationship with such things? And if you have lost the relationship with these things in nature, how can you be related to man?

The more we live in towns, the less do we have any relation with nature. You go out for a walk on a Sunday and look at the trees and say “How lovely”, and go back to your life of routine, living in a series of drawers, which are called houses, flats.

You are losing your relationship with nature. You can see this by the fact that you go to museums and you spend a whole morning looking at pictures.

- Krishnamurti, Talks in Europe 1968, p 82

Source: www.jkrishnamurti.com