Nature Is Out There, And We Can

Sometimes I Come Across A Tree Which Seems Like Buddha Or Jesus: Loving, Compassionate, Still, Unambitious, Enlightened, In Eternal Meditation, Giving Pleasure To A Pilgrim, Shade To A Cow, Berries To A Bird, Beauty To Its Surroundings, Health To Its Neighbors, Branches For The Fire, Leaves For The Soil, Asking Nothing In Return, In Total Harmony With The Wind And The Rain. How Much Can I Learn From A Tree? The Tree Is My Church, The Tree Is My Temple, The Tree Is My Mantra, The Tree Is My Poem And My Prayer.

If You Can Kill Animals, The Same Attitude Can Kill Human Beings. The Mentality Is The Same Which Exploits Nature And Which Creates Wars.

Speed Is One Of The Great Curses Of Modern Civilization, Obsession With Speed Leads To Quantitative Approach; We Come To Believe That More Is Better. This Is Very Materialistic, We Have To Realize That It Is The Quality Of Life, Quality Of Relationships, Quality Of Food, Medicine, Education And Everything Else Which Matters.

Nature Is Out There, And We Can Do What We Like To It. We Can Cut Down The Rain Forest. We Can Put Animals In Factory Farms And Slaughter Them As We Like. We Can Over-fish The Oceans. We Can Pollute The Rivers. We Can Pollute The Water And Change Climate. We Are Somehow Superior To Nature. We Are Somehow Rulers Of Nature.

There Is At The Moment In The World A Battle Going On Between Those Who Are Pursuing Materialistic Paths-globalizers Of Economic Growth And Those Hell-bent On This 'big Is Better' Idea-on The One Hand, And On The Other Hand Those Who Are Dedicated To Spiritual Renewal, More Small-scale Development, More Human Scale, More Sustainability, More Crafts And Arts. Where Human Beings Are Not Just Sold To Companies And Money And Those Kinds Of Things. Where Human Beings Have A Sacred Path.