08:28:38, hours MDT
...continued hiker’s journal…
…Give freely of what you found… <-- seems that this is important… When following a political, religious or biased dictum this may mean doing as the directors deem for one to do; or as one’s handlers reckon, believe or suppose you should do to remain in good stead. Correct?
However things spiritual in nature remain unanswered by the commandments above― this being that giving freely of what you found in the practice means precisely, that you, through the practice [work] become verbally forthright and straightforward irregardless of your desired outcome.
The alternative is simplistic in nature… this being that we go on playing around in a dress rehearsal for maturity
“Give freely of what you found, for surely you will meet some of us on the road to happy destiny.”
“Abandon yourself to God as you understand God. Admit your faults to Him and to your fellows. Clear away the wreckage of your past. Give freely of what you find and join us. We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit, and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the Road of Happy Destiny.
May God bless you and keep you - until then.” Alcoholics Anonymous
http://anonpress.org/bb/Page_164.htm
Reminds us all about those who continue to market/ advertise the gluten- free solution. The hucksters that want us to believe that burning more coal and drilling more oil is a good deal for nature. That buying, buying and buying more gluten- free marketing will somehow free us. Free us from what?
Are we not human animals and nature is a part of us? These peddlers be them as they may― the talking heads of Congress, the media “reporters”, the US Chamber of Commerce, the agribusiness profiteers and the so- called callings for global war on drugs would have us agree with their branding of the truth. How many times are we duped into buying a “lifestyle’’ with ever enormous houses packed one against the other in the environs of the gated communities?; into becoming hoodwinked and swindled into a more ‘luxurious’ automobile or for that matter- on the local playing field, seeing the corporate grocery outlets throwing away the produce in the closed containers behind the store? How many times are we led by the nose ring to believe these are some solutions or THEE solution- to our pain and obesity and not being satisfied with the current dangle of the golden riches? What happened to our inner desire to transcend this artificial sense of how we are all doing here on the planet? Did we forget that sharing the planet does mean we are not in it for the profiteering? ― to exploit because we can and have invented the means to do so? -- To take advantage of the others on the planetary journey with us? To abuse our prowesses and skills exemplified through aircraft carrier bombings and pin- pointing one another through cell- phone technologies? The industrial-military complex has drained out the ocean and expansiveness of our practice, don’t you think?
I’ll leave the important aspects of figuring out the practice to those more qualified, but alas for now I sense some inner chatter amongst you all. Do you believe that Aldo Leopold had it right back when he was coming of age? That the naturalist in him is similar to the spirit in you? I believe so, and as we all mature and become stewards rather than blindly consuming our experiences we shall become more involved. The alternative is to spend more money for diminishing returns. And the trinkets we buy i.e. the toys― autos that have ever more gadgetry inside, those “necessities” like the gigantic houses― do nothing for those that share the planet with us elsewhere than the United States of America.
…Give freely of what you found… <-- seems that this is important…
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