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An appeal to those who are awakening the memory of a Golden Age to co-
create a Golden Age in the present moment.
Bliss arises when the inner fire (Vital Heat) blazes throughout the body,
There is bliss when the winds of Roma and Kyangma
[the two channels beside the spine]
enter into the central channel [in the spine],
There is bliss when the bodhichitta
[translucent sexual energy] descends from above...
and (bliss when) the elemental tigle [sexual energy]
pervades from below.
When the white and red [male and female essences]
unite in the middle [at the heart] (bliss arises),
And the joy of a leakless (non emission of the Bodhicitta) body satiates
one,
The whole body is suffused with undefiled rapture.
Sixfold is the bliss of the secret yogas.
natural farming
reinvented by Masanobu Fukuoka. Being in total attunement with
nature, one just stretches a helping hand by doing some clever
manipulations so there is no need to: mix the soil (rotor tilling or
plowing, the soil is plowed with the plant roots), uprooting weeds, tree
pruning , fertilizers or pesticides.
Natural Farming cultivates crops for consumption in a way that mimics
nature. Seeding is done by broadcasting a variety of seeds enveloped in
clay pellets (seed balls). Nature then is the one that decides what is going
to grow where.
Said by an expert: In my humble opinion, a food forest garden with a
variety of different species of canopy trees that produce fruit, nuts,
timber, berries, craft woods, etc.and underneath them bushes,
understory trees, vine, perennials, annuals, fungii, etc..is the best
solution in many, maybe most, areas of the country to supply the most
constant and varied supply of food for a family or a community (it goes
without saying that more income can be generated this way). Going .one
step further is to plant a large variety of native species of plants, shrubs
and trees, herbs and weeds, edible or not, considering that everything in
nature is useful in one way or another. This creates an ecosystem of great
biodiversity of incomparable beauty, just like in the past. There is also
plenty of food, much more nourishing, but which requires a change of
attitude and habits from our part. Instead of trying, as usual, to make
nature fit to our needs, we must adjust ourselves to nature, by adopting
quality and not quantity, like eating small in size, powerful energetic
wild food that doesnt stretch our stomachs. Eating denatured food (old,
overcooked, processed etc.) obliges us to eat large quantity and we end
up obese.
The difference from any other farming system, even with the organic
method, is that much less work is required, machinery is not used, there
is more production and the soil fertility is increasing every year, unlike
the other methods, even the organic one, that still degrades the soil on a
much slower rate.
The necessity to act fast enriching the soil.
The earth goes through cycles of fertility and infertility with ice ages and
interim periods. During the ice age, the friction of snow on the rocks
generates dust which is then transported everywhere with strong winds.
Immediately after the ice age, the land is so fertile, with this dust that
contains more than 90 trace elements, that the trees can grow over 100
meters tall (currently the largest sequoia is 115m tall). But over time,
after millennia, coupled with the human intervention, this fertility is
significantly reduced.
The restoration of nature starts with the soil. On its best, just like in the
far past, it is rich in minerals and organic matter with lots of worms and
microorganisms that aid in the breakdown of organic matter. They also
render the inorganic minerals organic (this is what plants can absorb),
and build the structure of the soil. Like this all the processes, which are
necessary to produce healthy plants and trees, happen. Most soils,
though, are very degraded, especially due to plowing and tillage. For
them to be restored, using Fukuokas method by planting, a variety of
plants fixing the soil with their yearly decomposition, would take many
years. As everything falls apart so fast, I consider it imperative to speed
this process up. The soil can be enriched with rock dust (volcanic,
granite, etc.) and organic matter (like compost) which provides a lot of
bacteria, fungi, etc. Using these amendments, it could still take a year for
the soil to be ready for planting. The result of such restoration is that the
plants and the fruits are sturdier and larger than the conventional ones
and have a higher and more balanced content of trace elements and
vitamins.