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 “Mum, dont spoil the planet I will be living for your convenience”

One thing I never forget on every Dec  X’mas time  is 2003, 2004, 2006 Dec 26th Earthquake.

In 2003, Dec 26 :  Iran Earthquake struck before dawn on Friday, destroying most of the ancient Silk Road city of Bam and killing at least 5,000 people – more than 20,000 are dead and more than 30,000 were reported injured.

In 2004, Dec 26 :  The Indonesia earthquake triggered a series of devastating tsunamis  killing more than 225,000 people in eleven countries.  

In 2006, Dec 26 : HengChun earthquake in Taiwan, many building was devastated.

This make me feel like coming week is an earthquake anniversary to remember the death while many preparing to enjoy the Worldwide Chrismas Celebrations.  Instead of enjoying your holidays and Chrismas during this weekend, can’t  we choose it as a disaster remembering week. Because every races, every religious joinly celebrate this Chrismas.  Many animal, live stock was killed during this day,  but one thing each of us can definitely do is choose mercy, justice, compassion, and gentleness, is at our X’mas dinner table.

As one simple example, chickens today are crammed into giant sheds with tens of thousands of other chickens, each with less space for movement than a standard sheet of paper. Their beaks are chopped off with a hot iron, causing many to starve to death because eating becomes so painful. After six weeks, they’re loaded onto trucks and carted to slaughter, without food or water and through all weather extremes–many dying of heat exhaustion or by freezing to death. Finally, they are shackled and their throats slit, often while they are fully conscious.  By the time they reach the slaughterhouse, 90 percent of chickens have suffered broken legs or bone deformities.  Other animal lives are similar for cows, pigs, turkeys, and other animals raised for human food.  

Can we choose some mercy, justice , love for them, at least during coming two weeks ?

In Buddha teaching, human body are made of mind and matter. The matter are make up of four elements, ie  soil, water, fire and air.  Our Earth, is also make up of this four elements.  

Thus,  soil is our Earth’s skin, the water on earth is just like  our bloodstream, and air our breath.  The fire is our sun, evaporating water and regulating the weather.

Our earth regulates its own temperature, oxygen levels, CO2 level, etc, much like our own human body controls temperature and rebuilds its parts constantly.  If our body regulation is inbalance, we will have fever. Similary if the earth temperature was not properly regulated, our earth will have fever.  Human body are operate exactly like our earth. When human die, our physical body will return to our mother earth as soil, water, fire and earth. So, we are part of the earth.   Human species are the only special with moral intelligence, therefore our mind, human being mind are the mind of Gaia (The Greek earth Godness).   So, without love, morality and ethics from the individual person, it is difficult to devise a sustainable environmental.

Accordingly, if we take the notion that “The world is our body”, then Gaia is our mind and conscience.  Without our love of our body – planet,  How can we maintain our health ?