Mind, Body, SpiritToday it struck me that what every person in the urban environment needs is to share in a garden, a wiki web site and a nonviolent way of life. These three things will feed the mind, body and spirit. The body will be fed healthy food by sharing in the growing power garden. The mind will be stimulated by participation in the wiki web site. The soul will be refreshed by the practice of nonviolence. For the body, sharing in a growing power style garden will offer not only healthy exercise that could be all year around but will provide each person a share of good organic food. Second, a wiki site will give each person a simple way to express him or herself and keep up with the ideas and thoughts of others in a way that can be individually designed. Third, by a nonviolent way of life I mean some type of spiritual life that will give meaning to existence and keep people living together in harmony.
Tonight some of us pilgrims-to-be met with Sri Prasad of India who will be our guide in the pilgrimage of peace in the footsteps of Gandhi that we will be undertaking at the end of the year. Prasad is a good representative of the three ways to feed the mind, body and soul. As a follower of Gandhi he is into sustainable agriculture, growing healthy food. In India they use cow manure as main substance of compost. Certainly he practices nonviolence in all ways of life, words and actions. He may not share in a wiki web site but is familiar with modern technology and uses it as a way to communicate. Again we have the combination of mind, body and soul being fed.
So a new way of looking at life is to see how much sharing in life of growing, wiki and nonviolence we practice. The balance of mind, body and spirit is important for all three to prosper.
Comments
Godsil — 25 March 2008, 07:33
Wow! This is great stuff and I totally agree with every single word you’ve written. The mouse of wiki and the worm of growing power backyard gardening or “micro-farming” have given my life incalculable benefits and ineffable joys! I also think that home growing, wiki communications, and non-violence work have a benefit for family members of enormous value, even if they are rather passive witness to household members to engaged. Here’s something I wrote reflecting upon the power of home growing I hope you’ll share:
There’s Life For Me In My Dad’s Backyard!
There’s life for me
In my Dad’s backyard!
The sweetest cherry tomatoes
I’ve ever had!
Wood chips, veggie surplus,
Brewers mash, coffee grounds…straw,
Throwing out heat for our winter hoop house,
Food for our 10,000 red wriggler worms all year round,
Who make love with our soil
And give birth to beautiful black gold.
Out black gold is a soil so nutrient rich
That red radishes, dark green spinach,
Red chard, light green peas,
Giant yellow sunflowers…arugula and mescline mix
Seem to grow overnight!
Our red raspberries are 5 to 6 ft. high!
We’ve 5 tomato varieties fit for the Riviera.
And now this incredible Riverwest artist,
Shawn Gurath, has painted two giant horses
Two doves, and either a burning bush
Or the new Eden’s apple tree
In a backdrop of periwinkle blue
On our once ugly garage wall
We see upon looking out our kitchen window.
This backyard alive is in a quite working class ‘hood
In a community of 5 emerging planetary villages in…
Bay View, Wisconsin, a new and old working class community
On a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan!
I love my Father’s house!
Olde
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