I killed a little plant today
Did it suffer?
I don’t know
But I suffer
from knowing that I took a life
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Struggling with the question of pain and suffering in Nature. Does Nature suffer? What are my projections? So many layers – physical, emotional, subtile, causal. Born and unborn. Single entities and collective fields. Conscious and unconscious.
What is Big Heart of Humanity?
Some light from Humanity and from Nature.
Woke up this morning and saw this!
So I give Nature an extra visual score for its constant change;
— weather, day and night, seasons, growing plants and long term geological changes …
And all those shifts are beautiful and takes place on stage.
No rehearsal or signs with “Closed for reconstruction ” …
This afternoon we went to a chamber orchestra concert in the church at the monastery here in Vico. Some of the best musicians in Corsica where playing well known pieces from Mozart, Händel, Beethoven and others. It was just breathtaking and I was swept away into an acoustic heaven.
After the concert we drove to the next village and it started to hail and the sky was shifting. The landscape is so wild, beautiful and impressive. It’s impossible to catch more than a small taste of it with the camera.
Back in the house with a cup of tea and a chocolate cake in front of the fireplace — thinking about Nature and Humanity.
Music is really something special that we have invented. Birds can sing, but they can’t give a concert like that, and they can’t play together and express beauty in that way. On the other hand, nothing we can paint or sculpture can in any way compete with nature in visual impact and beauty. So the score is one-one :-)
Or …
When I took the boat from Marseille to Corsica, I went out on deck when we left the harbor. I looked up the huge chimney of the ferry and I had two very different thoughts …
— What a lot of pollution! I should have gone by sailing boat instead.
— What a great power! Thank you all wonderful plants from the Cambrian era.
Without the oil, the technology and all these things modernity brought us — I wouldn’t have been on this journey. I would have had nine kids, doing hard body work, no computer and a narrow worldview.
These plants, who grew millions of years ago, and whose ashes now are coming out the chimney — I just love them and feel so much gratitude.
And yes, we need a new technology …
Took those pictures of autumn leaves in Corsica today, the 4th of December. I’ve been moving south since September and seen the autumn leaves in Sweden, Denmark, Germany and France on my way. The longest autumn of my life — love the colors and the melancholic tone!
As a single human I can only have one season at a time. But just now Humanity and Planet are experiencing a lot of different seasons. Wow, right now I can really feel all these seasons at the same time! Of course I’ve known that it’s this way. That they have summer in Australia, it’s winter in the Arctic and wet season in Indonesia. But this experience of all the seasons simultaneously is new.
Yes, it is one climate.
I get that now.
One Humanity and one climate system.
Now.
Walked to Vico and did some grocery shopping
On the way home I stopped and looked at the mountains swept in mist
Felt into being a single human before this magnificent nature
— Small, overwhelmed, insignificant …
Decided to identify with the Field of Humanity
and as a part of that field stand before Nature
A totally different relation
— Love, care, responsibility
Big Heart of Humanity …
