The other day I watched a leaf fall from a tree. Shall I feel sorrow for that leaf, pricked from it's life source? As I ponder, the leaf continues to fall. It falls onto a hillside with many years of fallen leaves. I see the hillside covered in withered old, new and just fallen. I hear the wind gather strength, leaves in a symphony of falling all around me.
These leaves, they have gathered sunlight and given oxygen for many weeks now. Nourished by the roots of the tree, the sun and the air...they are ready. They fall to nourish and offer themselves to another living form. The form slowly withers, but the energy lives on.
All life, all things in nature offer their nourishment to the world, I simply follow that pattern. When all nourish, all is nourished. This is the beautiful harmony of our place.
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Sounds interesting sis. I always get sort of sad I think when something dies...a relationship, a flower, an animal....but I think its good to see the good in it. All things are impermanent, they ive and then they die...but they are not truly dieing...their life energy is just being moved elsewhere...gifts recieved from relationships live on inside us and nourish future relationships, the flowers from this season will provide the soil for next seasons beautiful blooms, animals no longer living provide nutrients for the soil so that grass can grow......nothing ever dies..it is just nourishing something else...there actually s a lot of beauty in death.
There is no death sister... If death existed I imagine it would be a terrible thing.
That's what she was saying, Iris. "their life energy is just being moved elsewhere." i agree, death is most likely a human creation --- a necessary concept at that. but life is life. energy is transferred. but that doesn't make it any less sacred. the problem occurs if everything is truly one, than eatong plants is the same as eating meat. life is sacraficed for life.
i love you guys.
iris, i love this blog. really great writing. the picture of you in the chillean mountains is the background of my computer!!!
I am not sure what to believe. A part of me believes that eating animals is part of the natural cycle of life. I wish I could be apart of that cycle in some ways. It is not healthy to completely cut myself from that cycle. And I haven't, I still eat eggs and many dairy products. The reason I don't ingest animals is because food is suppose to be a source of nourishment. Animals that are kept in cages, dying and fork-lifted into the butchery, unable to roam freely...this is not nourishment. I do not want to put this into my body. But would I eat a cow if I lived in the wild, I knew it lived a natural and free life, liberated from any human torture?If I could avoid it I would, but if it was necessary for the nourishment of my body, I believe I would. As long as I live to nourish the world, I can allow the world to nourish me. The beautiful harmony of our place
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