The green earth

September 5, 2013

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. ~Thich Nhat Hanh


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    Pieter Hibma

    September 6, 2013

    Admire the sun, moon and all the other planets and satellites. Now you realise how important team-work and harmony is. Without all those dead bodies we wouldn't be around.

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    Timothy Mckiness

    September 6, 2013

    You constantly leave me speechless, and in deep thought. Star child. You must go on a lot of walks. You always seem to be in the moment. But that's what makes you my teacher.

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    Timothy Mckiness

    September 6, 2013

    You constantly leave me speechless, and in deep thought. Star child. You must go on a lot of walks. You always seem to be in the moment. But that's what makes you my teacher.

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    Ken Moroni

    September 6, 2013

    Then picture drones and satellites messing up your chi

  11. Reply  

    Ken Moroni

    September 6, 2013

    Then picture drones and satellites messing up your chi

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    Juanita Sara Fuentes Longoria

    September 6, 2013

    Thank you for sharing these beautiful heartbreath taken photos…they are more then words simply the most beautiful pictures i have ever seen simply beautiful just like you..i really injoyed each and every picture….

  23. Reply  

    Juanita Sara Fuentes Longoria

    September 6, 2013

    Thank you for sharing these beautiful heartbreath taken photos…they are more then words simply the most beautiful pictures i have ever seen simply beautiful just like you..i really injoyed each and every picture….

  41. Reply  

    Kevin Gilmore

    September 6, 2013

    Thank you:-)You have bought me back ahhhh… The sweet breath

  56. Reply  

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    September 6, 2013

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  58. Reply  

    Angela Dupree

    September 6, 2013

    Forgiveness. Is divine. Never pay full price for pizza

  61. Reply  

    Rajnish Sharma

    September 6, 2013

    realty…….xcillent…….Er.rajnish 09312850006.

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    Jahangir Khan

    September 6, 2013

    This is blessing of Creator that gave us so kind nature and its environment ,let us preserve it and make it coexist ,this is real beauty of the Universe.

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    Alberto Lara

    September 6, 2013

    No other words could of express this better.

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    Elijah Boateng

    September 6, 2013

    Mi jux luv ya pix & da message 2. God blees all da tym

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    Talib Nizami

    September 6, 2013

    Yas. Tha miracal is green earth. And nice pic. Great

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    Max Cook

    September 6, 2013

    I like the comment.

    Although I believe that it is the miracle for our times, but was not "miraculous", not so long ago.

    We are a fallen people, these millenia.

    The old testament has it that we, or our metaphorical ancestors, Eve and Adam, "fell" from the Garden of Eden.Β 

    The implication in that use of the word "fall" is that prior to A&E's time, the first peoples, A&E's predecessors, or ancestors, were in this heavenly state perpetually.

    It becomes important then to do the maths so to speak, as to how "worldly" or, how "parochial" that Hebrew view was?

    Apparently, we might assume, the ancient hebrews were unaware of peoples of much much older tribes, such as, say,Β  the Ancient Japanese, the Ancient "Cambodians" or such [Thich Nhat Hanh?] the Ancient Americans, north and south, the Ancient Australian Aborigines, in other distant parts of the globe, who lived I assert, in this "miraculous" state of being in the present, up until the "western" expansionist putsch out of Europe and Britain as late as the 15th century CE, but also as early as the 2nd century BCE of ancient Rome.Β  In Australia, up until as recently as 1788CE.

    [Australian Aborigine call the day the whites "celebrate", January 26th, when the white's first landed here, "Sorry Day".]

    So, I say again, it's a beautiful line, but we are the exception today, compared to the Ancients, who all lived in that Blissful moment.

    What's more.., they were Wise and True, and taught their children the same Path.

    That's why, today, in Australia, our Aborigine kids have the highest suicide rate on earth.Β  They are still rejected by white society, and must watch as their Country, their Ancient Mother Earth, is stolen and sold from under their feet, and they watch as quite, quite insane "buzz-headed" whites pour in, build their ridiculous mansions, and cities and false lifestyles on their mother.Β 

    Inherently, the Indigenous kids, and of course, their disempowered adults look see and know how utterly mad the invaders are, and that they are so off the path, as referred to by Thich Nhat Hanh above, yet are thrown in prison if they object, object to "whiteguy" deadly and insane ways?

    NOT FUNNY, that as we go to the federal election tomorrow [Saturday 7th Sept], yet this matter does not rate a mention by either of the main contending parties,Β 

    But that's why, I wrote in my REALPolitik blog [which shall remain addressless], that for our Aboriginal children, "school is bullshit!" because the western versions of educating, NOT, indoctrinating kids into adulthood, does nothing for them in terms of leading them, teaching them how to be as their Immortal Ancestors were, Fully Enlightened People.

    Indeed, all our "modern" western schools' curricula do to children, is basically dumb them down and lead them away from attaining their own Enlightenment, thus their lifelong ability to "Live in the "miraculous" Present Moment.

    So, Thich Nhat Hanh's line, IS "miraculous" perhaps even to this era's Asian Peoples, but is most certainly applicable to the "fallen" descendents of the ancient Hebrews, the whiteguys of the western hemisphere.

    US!

    There ya' go!

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    Joel Smasher

    September 6, 2013

    I like that and I think I well follow that advice thank you.

  101. Reply  

    Riya Tripathi

    September 6, 2013

    kaash e s chand ko chu sakteeeeeee…………..

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    Latifah Richie

    September 6, 2013

    yeah, u r right, the miracle z to walk around on da earth wen u arent gone for a journey dat u dsnt com back. enjoy da earths moments whle alive.

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    Rob Robinson

    September 6, 2013

    So true & would b so rewarding 2 the self πŸ™‚

  168. Reply  

    Aayah Samir

    September 7, 2013

    I adore it but when r we gonna start flying now

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