Quote: What you are offering in FalconBlanco sounds logical
and obviously it is urgent that something happens to save the planet. So
it seems the only way to start to do something about the survival of the
planet is to start with oneself on the smallest
scale. Your initiative is extraordinary and shows practical ways, without
too much and complicated theory. Your 'pilot project' should be supported
as much as possible. I imagine that people, once they have started with
your 'survival training' they will be excited about it and see the progress
very soon. Although I also believe that three weeks is a short time and
it might be difficult to capture something essential... But also I believe
it is worth the intention.
BeiYin: Indeed, sometimes I ask myself
what I'm doing here in FB. Nobody seems to take something into account
what I am saying (or writing). People are hardly listening, so sometimes
I talk very little and only if somebody ask me, what is seldom enough.
What I do now is that I write down what I want to say and I send it as
email to the people here in FB, so they can read it if they want and also
they can give me their comment, written or direct. [Now we have an intern
computer net work and so we can exchange messages and pictures and chat
with each other... That indeed sometimes is easier than to talk directly
face to face...]
An example: Talking about survival I explained
that it would be good to reduce what we are using and only that much
as we really need. What means switching off the light when we don't need
it, closing the tap when we are not standing under the shower and simple
things like this. Nothing changes. I have to go for a walk around FB when
people are asleep to switch off the lights of the terraces and the kitchen,
otherwise it would burn the whole night.
Another example: People can drink and eat as
much as they want, we have food in abundance. But that doesn't mean that
they behave like mice and rats, opening a bottle or package, taking a zip
or a piece and just dropping it somewhere and then comes the next person
and opens another bottle or packet of biscuits. This is very basic, but
it looks like that it will need several weeks that they change just one
simple habit. I'm not surprised that when I was
talking about habits and that it is necessary to become aware of one's
attitudes and habits to be able to survive and that it is important to
save energy by changing one's (unconscious) habits. So I was talking about
eating habits and explained that most are really bad and that since
centuries, so that makes it difficult to change
something about it.
People eat fruits after their meal. That's stupid,
because fruits need only a very short time to be digested, but if fruits
are eaten after the meal then they will disturb the whole digestive process
and so the food might be not digested but goes into fermentation and lays
for hours in the stomach and then it needs a lot more energy to pass it
through the whole process. The same with the bad habit to drink during
the meal.
So what happens? People listen and then maybe
for one or two days they do it differently and then they are back to their
old habit, drinking Coca Cola, fruit juice, etc. during the meal, eating
whatever comes into their sight without reflection.
Pretty clear that if they are not capable to
consider any thing on this primitive basic level, how can they be aware
of their reactions and consider any thing I have written or said referring
the mind and emotional level? Anything truly spiritual seems to be so far
away that this can't even be mentioned. Every body knows that I am meditating
each morning and evening in the big dome, I have offered them to join and
that I would initiate them. Obviously nobody is interested, otherwise I
wouldn't sit there alone since several months. I don't mind. I do what
feels right to me but I'm not going to impress anybody to do the same,
it has to come out of one's own motivation. Yes, you are right: It is a
pilot project which is still waiting for the right people to show up that
it can be practiced effectively...
PS: Support? Yes, I would appreciate it, sometimes
it helps if somebody expresses one's sympathy.
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