Seeds

“In his view the earth is all equally cultivated like a garden. Therefore we should receive the benefit of his light and heat with a corresponding trust and magnanimity” Thoreau

The past week I occupied myself with planting a garden in my backyard, since it´s almost summer in Moz the timing is perfect. I never thought I would become as interested in gardening as I am, but now I continue to see the importance of it. Gardening is the essence of all life but the current method will make of it an extinct art if it isn´t improved. The soil can be used and reused but it isn´t. the training we had about gardening through Peace Corps showed me how important it is to prepare the soil before any seed enters it. I usually wake up, do yoga and go swimming, however, the past week I postponed swimming so I could finish the soil preparation. The resources I used to plant are “double-digging,” and a book called “How to Grow More Vegetables.” There is also info on growbiointensive.org.
It makes sense to prepare the soil so thoroughly before planting, the seed needs rooms to grow and develop to its potential. It also makes sense to perform a thorough preparation of the self before attempting to bring any other being to this world. It´s this lack of preparation that has created so many bad seeds in our history. Parents do not have a prepared bodymind (spiritual, physical, psychological, and emotional self). I am not only referring to those historical bad seeds, but also to those bad seeds that are among us. The self-haters and disturbances of the peace. Bad seeds is not meant as a judgement but a metaphor to the importance of the preparation of the soil. All the “bad seeds” have as their core the lack of preparation by the previous generation that birthed it.
There is a quote I love that I make reference to a lot, “Leave the busy commotion of the mind, and abandon the desires of the ego, and enter into the silence of the heart” This lead me to think about HIV and how it´s related to the essence of a human being. The #1 form of transmission of HIV is through sex. In 1980, when it was first “discovered”, there were 100,000ppl with HIV as of 2004 the number has risen to 39,000,000!! At the rate it´s increasing it could destroy humanity. But why has it managed to be so deadly? I believe it´s because of an irrational obsession with sex; just look at the media that we are viewing daily…because of this busy commotion of the mind and desires of the ego. HIV has physically and metaphorically entered the self in disguise and has slowly taken over the cells to remove their immunity. I mean physically because this is what it does to the cells but metaphorically because sex is part of our survival as humanity. When there exists a dis-ease that enters the core of our existence, there is nothing left for us to do but evolve to a higher consciousness. As I see it HIV is the physical manifestation of this busy commotion and the only true cure I envision is the peace that arises from entering into the silence of the heart, this is how we must evolve