The more I read in "Peace is every step" the more I feel I am growing as a person and a member of a greater family. There is a chapter about the environment that states that the sun serves the same function as our heart. Indeed that the sun is our external heart. It further states that the trees around us are our external lungs. This of course ties into the concept of Inter-being. The fact that we cannot exist without our heart or our lungs. In this way we cannot exist without the sun or trees. This is easy to understand of course, what is difficult is determining how to take care of these things. If more people understood the idea of inter-being, we would have less cars on the road. People would be aware of what damage they were causing to the people around them. The people who exist because of them, and for whom they owe their existence.
The problem is that when you say this to people they want to write it off as hippie nonsense and forget about it.
If they could see the personal benefits of taking better more loving care of the air and trees around them they might come around.
So here are a few
1. When carpooling you get to know one another. This can be an even deeper connection if you practice mindfulness.
2. You will be sick less. This is very true for people who live near water and suffer the effects of inversion in the winter months.
3. You will be able to see the sky when clouds part. Where I live on a clear day in the winter the inversion makes the blue sky a grayish white.
It only takes a moment to breathe and come back to this moment, but if you do it the benifits will be amazing. By being in the moment you don't feel rushed by worries about what will happen later or regrets about what happened earlier.
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