Live simply so that ALL living things, including our Mother Earth, can simply live.
By radically changing ourselves, by learning and applying dispassion, we change the world. One cannot expect others to do what one does not.
[QUOTE=Nichole;6931]Live simply so that ALL living things, including our Mother Earth, can simply live.[/QUOTE]
Nichole,
Industrial Society is destroying necessary things [Animals, Trees, Air, Water and Land] for making unnecessary things [Consumer Goods].
When we make consumer goods we kill Animals/ Trees, Air/ Water and Land - directly or indirectly.
Industrial Society destroys ecosystems - all Industrial Societies destroy ecosystems.
It hardly matters whether it is “Capitalist Industrial Society” - “Communist Industrial Society” - or “Socialist Industrial Society”.
Industrial Society destroys ecosystems at every stage of its functioning - when consumer goods are produced - when consumer goods are used - when consumer goods are discarded/ recycled.
Raw material for industry is obtained by cutting up Forests. It is extracted by mining/ digging up the earth. It comes by destroying/ killing Trees, Animals and Land.
Industries/ Factories use Water. The water that comes out of Factories is contaminated with hundreds of toxic chemicals. Industry kills Water. What to speak of Rivers - entire Oceans have been polluted.
Industry/ Factories burn millions of tonnes of fuel and when raw material is melted/ heated up, hundreds of toxic chemicals are released into the atmosphere. Industry kills Air.
Industrial Society has covered millions of square miles of land with cement and concrete. Industry kills Land.
When consumer goods are discarded/ thrown away in landfills it again leads to destruction of ecosystems.
When consumer goods are recycled, hundreds of toxic chemicals are released into air, water and land.
Consumer goods are sold/ marketed through a network of millions of kilometers of rail / road network and shipping routes which causes destruction of all ecosystems that come in the way.
[b]“Growth Rate” - “Economy Rate” - “GDP”
These are figures of “Ecocide”.
These are figures of “crimes against Nature”.
These are figures of “destruction of Ecosystems”.
These are figures of “Insanity, Abnormality and Criminality”.[/b]
sushil_yadav
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My friend Sushil,
It seems you have missed my point entirely, and that is OK. Then again, perhaps you were trying to substantiate my last post? Either way, it is all good.
Outside of my family, Yoga and Sustainability are my two greatest passions.
I study them equally and I practice them both equally.
For me they are inseparable because the I am lovingly devoted to the Mother.
we were born in love and were fulfilled, we saw materialism and gravitated towards thatbecause it “appereard” all shiny and pretty. now w are no longer interested in it and will go back to where we came from to be fulfilled. I no longer see what is happening as bad, it is what many of us need to wake up. does this mean I dont care about the enviornment? I have recently made a clothesline in place of a dryer, dont use soap to wash my car, have turned off my AC vent to my room and just open the windows at night, recycle etc… But, I still drive a car, use the computer, buy things made of plastic, etc…
[QUOTE=Nichole;7185]My friend Sushil,
It seems you have missed my point entirely, and that is OK. Then again, perhaps you were trying to substantiate my last post? [/QUOTE]
Nichole,
I have not missed your point at all. I have pointed out that most people cannot live a simple life in Industrial Society. Today 50% of world population - 3 billion people are living in cities. Most of these people are engaged in unnecessary and destructive work - making things, buying things and selling things. If 3 billion people are engaged in making, buying and selling of consumer goods, we will keep on destroying the ecosystems moment by moment.
sushil_yadav
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
ePhilosopher
Corrupt
ForeignPolicy
you say it is unecessary, the divine may think differently
tunnel vision may make a man miss the picture
good day
seeker
[QUOTE=Nichole;6931]Live simply so that ALL living things, including our Mother Earth, can simply live.[/QUOTE]
I hear you nichole, I am working on it
seeker
Hunt, eat, sleep, hunt, eat, sleep. What is the point in living then? Why would you want to be purely emotional, how can we expirience emotion without understanding anything?
Is this not what our lives are today to a certain extent?
School, dinner, sleep, club (tribal dance)…
It’s not that the people before us didn’t understand anything, human understanding just changed over time with our situation.
Dear Sushil,
I can see from your postings that you are very passionate about the topic and nothing wrong with that and with what you try to propagate. My own teacher, Sri Durga Devi always tells me that the yogic view to things such as these should be the middle path. And I would like to share her advice once to me on this matter: “Try to walk softly wherever you go on the Mother, live a life of non-violence (vegetarianism) and be kind to all. Above all know that you have to live in the world to make a living as that is the construct of society, but don’t be of the world, be de-tached and don’t allow the world to get to you as your spiritual purpose is higher. Do all of this in the knowledge that this is not the only world available for incarnation, but that this one has its lessons and try to learn them well as and how they present them.”
I teach my own students that respect for all would go a long way in solving most of our problems in this world. Live that respect as the energy will be assimilated by the world consciousness and eventually it will make a difference to this planet.
I agree with Sushil that it IS difficult to live a simple life. I live in Shanghai and I can physically feel the pollution, the traffic, the lack of green space and wildlife physically wearing me down. Every time I am out of the city I get a shock that I can actually notice the different seasons, which seem not to exist when heat/AC regulates the temperatures and there are not many flowers and trees around. How sad!
However, I used to work for an environmental campaigning group and have studied a bit about how to make messages appeal to the public and while passion is great, being too aggressive and negative just makes people turn away, no one wants to hear messages like this even if (or maybe because) they know it is the truth. We have to focus on the positivity of what we can achieve through inidividual action, not on the failures of our collectivity.
Excellent Advise, thank you from my heart as what you are saying here makes so much sense and sort of underlines my own belief as well.
As a yogist and environmentalist, it’s hard to practice when there’s pollution hence why most yoga lessons are done in doors. We really need to improve the world. My documentary FUEL, is about cleaner resources of energy to stop global warming. http://www.thefuelfilm.com
Change your fuel… change the world,
Josh
[QUOTE=JenW;12771]I agree with Sushil that it IS difficult to live a simple life. I live in Shanghai and I can physically feel the pollution, the traffic, the lack of green space and wildlife physically wearing me down. Every time I am out of the city I get a shock that I can actually notice the different seasons, which seem not to exist when heat/AC regulates the temperatures and there are not many flowers and trees around. How sad! [/QUOTE]
For several decades environmentalists have been warning modern society that ecosystems are getting destroyed - that consumerist lifestyle is not sustainable.
But modern society which was busy chasing progress, growth and development did not listen. It refused to believe there was any environmental crisis or problem. It said science and technology will always find a solution - if earth gets destroyed we will move on to another planet.
Impossible dreams were sold to people in the name of science and technology.
Moving to another planet would probably rank as the most impossible of all impossible things.
One space shuttle exploded during take off - another exploded on the return journey.
So far man has not been able to go beyond the moon. There is no other life sustaining ecosystem/ planet within the solar system. Outside the solar system planets and galaxies are millions of light years away - billions of light years away.
So when are we moving to a new home ?
Next year - or 5 years later ?
sushil_yadav
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Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
[QUOTE=Nichole;6931]Live simply so that ALL living things, including our Mother Earth, can simply live.[/QUOTE]
Yes, living simply means actually making room for God.