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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 ?

After writing about the Lord of Miracle of Christ that happen in Peru 350 years ago, I recalled those email that I received about the miracles that happen in 2004 Dec 26 Tsunami in Sri Langka.  It is true that many Buddha statues was escaped from the destruction by the wave of Tsunami.  The point I wish to bring up is not about the Miracle of Buddha.  The interesting story begin with this…

When the Tsunami hit Sri Lanka, there was a statue of the Buddha in the town of Galle, which didn’t topple when the waves rushed over it near the bus terminal. A Buddhist monk considered it as a sign. He said, ‘The people are not living according to religious virtues. Nature has given them some punishment because they’re not following the path of the Lord Buddha. The people have to learn their lesson.’

And a Roman Catholic priest cast the blame even wider.  ‘This is a punishment from God, because everybody’s leading a wretched life’, he said. ‘All of us are to be blamed for the tsunami, there’s no sense of modesty or religiosity any more. People have gone so far away from God, it’s the message to say “.

A fishman from the fishing village said, ‘The mother has butchered her own children’, ’Either there is no God, or God must be cruel to do this.’

Many of the victims are asking, “Why us? Why me? Why my childrens ? Why my parents ?  Other interesting features was the Christians and Hindus in India started co-operating with each other when a year ago they were fighting each other. And when Buddhists and Tamils in Sri Lanka started doing the same.

Is it true that altruism only trumps selfishness when we have to face a common adversity and drastic tragedy like this ? 

Is it true that ’Pain and suffering are ‘God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world.’ a quote from C.S.Lewis.  Can’t we human work on the same goal on our climate change issues rather than fighting each others concept and argue about data ?  Do we need a God’s Megaphone ? 

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1. http://in.news.yahoo.com/050110/137/2ix3h.html