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What is Poison and What is Medicine? “We each have our own mixed bag of neurosis, insecurities, perceptions and qualities. Therefore, there is not one way that works completely for us all. Nobody can tell us what to accept; what opens up our world, and what to reject; what seems to keep us spinning in some kind of repetitive misery. This practice (meditation, mindfulness, awareness – whatever you want to call it) helps us know this basic energy very well, with tremendous warmth and honesty, and we begin to figure out for ourselves what is poison and what is medicine” –Pema Chödrön If, as Zeno wrote, “The goal of life is living in agreement with nature” then we, as a culture, are completely failing to reach that goal. Our majority worldview is so focused upon the illusion of separation, and so at odds with nature and the natural order of things, that we’ve forgotten how everything is connected. Instead, we tend to rape and pillage the environment with unforgiving toxins, while manipulating and expropriating each other to no end. This has left us reeling as a species. We’re in a collective state of existential crisis that has never been seen in the short history of humankind, because when nature is ignored and suppressed we experience a deprivation that is not only a deprivation of nature but a deprivation of the human soul. The side-effects of which are detrimental on so many different levels – psychological, biological, ecological, and moral – that there’s no telling how much of an impact it will have, whether directly or indirectly, in the long run. We’re at an existential crossroads. One path leads to a healthy way of living in accord with each other and with nature. The other path has us continuing our unsustainable annihilation of both nature and the human soul. We must decide which path we’re going to take. And we must be able to convince other people which one of these paths is the healthier path, all without hurting each other; a truly daunting task. But no task is more important. The problem is that we are so far removed from reality, so caught up in the hyper-reality of the daily grind, endlessly hounded by advertisements that have us chasing our own tail through the whirlwind that is the consumerist lifestyle obsession, that we cannot see the healthy and “right” way of doing things anymore. We’re lost – a myopic species that misplaced itself due to its own boo-hoo, woe-is-me, pathetically insecure instability. All we really need to do is take a deep collective breath and get back to Mother Nature to rediscover the answers. Like Aldo Leopold wrote, “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.” But we are such a fearfully resentful, pitifully insecure, unable-to-admit-we-are-fallible, and prone-to-make-mistakes species, that we are, more often than not, held powerless to act in such a simple and courageous way. The good news is that we don’t have to bear the terrible weight of knowing right from wrong, or healthy from unhealthy. Mother Nature reveals it to us everywhere we go. She is steadfast and resolute with her laws. All we have to do is “listen.” It begins first with truly understanding, and coming to terms with, the absolute fact that all things are connected, that everything is a community, and that nothing is a commodity, in and of itself, until we convince ourselves that such is the case. Like Aldo Leopold wrote: “The land is not a commodity that belongs to us; it’s a community to which we belong.” The key is to get our thinking in accord with reality, instead in discord with it, as it is now. Like Shakespeare’s Hamlet said, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Let’s get our thinking to align with the healthy correlates of nature’s dictation of what it means to be a healthy species in balance with a healthy ecology. It really is that simple. So what is poison? What is medicine? As it stands, we, the human race, are the poison. And nature is the medicine, but her pill is jagged and painful, with knowledge-is-pain, as opposed to ignorance-is-bliss, side-effects. It will be a tough pill to swallow, for sure. It will hurt like hell. But no pill is more important than this one. If, as Voltaire wrote, “The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease,” then we must, as species, amuse each other that the best medicine is to meditate and to reconnect with nature, so that nature can cure our current disease. We must be able to balance our overly-practical perception of actual reality, and of hyper-reality, with intuition and a relearning of Derrick Jensen’s, “Language older than words.” Like Albert Einstein said, “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” We must not forget the gift. The gift is our ability to take the facts – whether they are facts from actual reality or pseudo-facts from hyper-reality – and bring them to light, to full disclosure under the dictatorial gaze of Mother Nature. Like Louis Agassiz wrote, “Go to nature; take the facts into your own hands; look, and see for yourself.” If we can do that, then we might just discover the difference between poison and medicine. Image Source: Show Us Some Love & Spread the Light:
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Što je Poison i što je medicina? "Svatko od nas ima vlastitu mješoviti vrećicu neuroza, nesigurnosti, percepcije i kvalitete. Dakle, ne postoji niti jedan način na koji funkcionira u potpunosti za sve nas. Nitko nas ne može reći što da prihvate; ono otvara naš svijet, a što odbaciti; ono što se čini da bi nam se vrti u nekakvom ponavljaju bijede. Ova praksa (meditacija, pomnost, svijesti - što god želite nazvati) pomaže nam tu osnovnu energiju vrlo dobro, s ogromnim topline i iskrenosti, i mi početi odgonetati za sebe ono što je otrov, a ono što je lijek "-Pema Chödrön Ako, kao Zeno zapisao, "Cilj života je živjeti u skladu s prirodom", onda smo, kao kultura, su u potpunosti nisu uspjeli doći do tog cilja. Naš najveći svjetonazor toliko fokusiran na iluziji odvojenosti, i tako u suprotnosti s prirodom i prirodnog poretka stvari, da smo zaboravili kako je sve povezano. Umjesto toga, skloni smo pljačkali i silovali okoliša s nepopustljiv toksina, dok manipulira i eksproprira jedni druge bez kraja. To nas je napustio vrtjelo kao vrsta. Mi smo u kolektivno stanje egzistencijalna kriza da nikada nije vidio u kratkoj povijesti čovječanstva, jer kad priroda se ignorira i potiskuje ćemo doživjeti deprivacije koja je ne samo oduzimanje prirode, ali oduzimanje ljudske duše. Sporedni učinci koje su štetne na toliko različitim razinama - psihološko, biološki, ekološki, i moralno - da nema reći koliko je utjecaj će imati, bilo izravno ili neizravno, na duže staze. Mi smo u egzistencijalnoj raskrsnici. Jedan put vodi na zdrav način življenja u skladu s međusobno i sa prirodom. Drugi put je us nastavku naše neodržive uništenja oba prirode i ljudske duše. Moramo odlučiti kojim putem idemo uzeti. I moramo biti u mogućnosti uvjeriti druge ljude kojima je jedna od tih puteva je zdraviji put, sve bez ranjavanje jedni druge; doista težak zadatak. Ali nema zadatak je važnija. Problem je u tome što smo se tako daleko od stvarnosti, tako da je uhvaćen u hiper-realnosti dnevnog samljeti, beskrajno progonjeni od strane reklame koje su nas lovi vlastiti rep kroz vihor koji je potrošački način života opsesija, da ne možemo vidjeti zdravu i "pravi" način obavljanja stvari više. Mi smo izgubili - a kratkovidni vrste koje se misplaced zbog vlastitog boo-hoo, jao-je-ja, patetično nesigurno nestabilnost. Sve što zaista trebate učiniti je uzeti dubok kolektivni dah i vratiti se na Majke Prirode da otkriju odgovore. Kao Aldo Leopold pisao, "Stvar je u pravu kada je teži za očuvanje integriteta, stabilnost, i ljepota biotičkom zajednice. To nije u redu kada je sklon inače. "Ali mi smo, kao plašljivo ogorčen, žalosno nesigurno, ne mogu-to-priznati-smo-se-pogrešiva, i skloni-to-make-pogrešaka vrsta, da smo, više nego često ne, održana nemoćni djelovati na takav jednostavan i hrabar način. Dobra vijest je da ne moramo snositi strašnu težinu znajući dobro od lošeg, ili zdrave od nezdravih. Majka priroda ga otkriva nam svugdje idemo. Ona je čvrst i odlučan sa svojim zakonima. Sve što trebate napraviti je "slušati". Ona počinje prvo s uistinu razumijevanje, i dolazi u uvjetima s, apsolutna činjenica da su sve stvari povezani, da je sve u zajednici, i da ništa nije roba, in and of itself, dok smo se uvjerili da je takav slučaj. Kao Aldo Leopold pisao: "Zemljište nije roba koja pripada nama; to je zajednica kojoj pripadamo. "Ključno je da se naše razmišljanje u skladu sa stvarnošću, umjesto toga, u neskladu s njom, kao što je sada. Poput Shakespeareovog Hamleta rekao, "Ne postoji ništa ni dobro ni loše, ali razmišljanje čini tako. "Idemo naše mišljenje uskladiti s zdravim čimbenici prirode diktata o tome što znači biti zdrava vrsta u ravnoteži sa zdravom ekologije. To je uistinu tako jednostavno. Dakle, što je otrov? Što je lijek? Kako sada stvari stoje, we, ljudska rasa, su otrov. I priroda je lijek, ali joj je pilula je razvedeno i bolno, znanjem-je-bol, za razliku od neznanja-je-blaženstvo, nuspojave. To će biti teška pilula, sigurno. To će boljeti poput pakla. No, bez pilula je važnije od ovoga. Ako, kao Voltaire je napisao, "Umijeće medicine sastoji se u zabavlja pacijenta dok priroda liječi bolesti,"Onda moramo, kao vrsta, zabavljati jedni druge da je najbolji lijek je meditirati i ponovno se povezati s prirodom, tako da se priroda može izliječiti naše trenutne bolesti. Moramo biti u stanju ravnoteže naše pretjerano praktična percepciju stvarnog stvarnosti, i hiperrealnosti, s intuicija i ponovno učenje od Derrick Jensen-a, "Jezik stariji od riječi." Kao Albert Einstein je rekao, "Intuitivni um je sveti dar, a racionalni um je vjerni sluga. Stvorili smo društvo koje poštuje slugu, pa je zaboravio na dar. "Ne smijemo zaboraviti na dar. Dar je naša sposobnost da se činjenice - da li su činjenice iz aktualne stvarnosti ili pseudo-činjenice iz hiper-realnosti - i dovesti ih na svjetlo, na punom otkrivanje pod diktatorskim pogleda majke prirode. Kao i Louis Agassiz je napisao, "Idite u prirodu; uzeti činjenice u svoje ruke; pogled, i uvjerite se sami. "Ako možemo to učiniti, onda smo samo mogli otkriti razliku između otrova i lijekova. Izvor slike: