In pursuit of physical basic needs
1. If you want to ensure you will have food and water, be a farmer and merge with farmers and marry a farmer. 2. If you want to ensure you will have shelter, do everything in #1 above, plus be a carpenter, merge with other carpenters and marry a carpenter. 3. If you want to ensure you will have clothing, you must do everything in #1 and #2 above, plus you must be a tailor, merge with tailors and marry a tailor. 4. In order to achieve the above, understanding must be the essential farming activity. In other words farming knowledge of self is the essential activity. Out of the understandings that comprise knowledge of self, comes all other fruits and fruitions. You are a farmer. Everything you have ever studied or learned has involved the same basic activities that apply to farming physical food. Whatever you think the process involves to farm foods, you are already doing it in other areas of life. The truth of this requires to you to be silent and meditate on these thoughts as you make a mental list of physical farming and search your life for how you have done the same.God is a farmer. What do you think being a Creator means?
Who else plants a garden of eden, a paradise, a tree of life, a land of milk and honey, yet is not primarily and fundamentally a farmer?
What do you think it took to create you from egg seed and sperm seed? Farming.
Your genetics, your genes, your drna and rna are the seeds, the nutrients, the farmers, the fruit, the inputs and outputs.
Farming is the essential activity.
That I am is that I am all types of farmers. By The Way, lawn and lawns have been discussed. As I was about to publish this message, I was just reminded by UC#2125 that the whole notion and logic of lawns is one of many pieces of logic becoming irrelevant. I'm still seeing a lot of people, even in the country, rush out and cut their grass and fawned over lawns, the moment it grows a few inches or the moment there's a dry day after a series of rains.
What we are doing is cutting down food.
Food for humans, insects, bees, birds and other animals. I was just thinking about this more intently in the past few days about the wide-ranging purposes of the plants that grow freely without human intention or intervention. Briefly speaking, how we should at least allow the clover to flower and give the bees a chance to harvest the nectar. Also how humans can eat the clover, dandelions, violets, chamomile, mock strawberries and many other plants prevalent in many yards.
God the Gardener planted these perennials we call grass or lawns or weeds. Where humans have not tread and taken over habitats, the same mix of plants is called fields, pastures, prairies, meadows and other words that we know is well enough on its own without our interference and that those areas are essential to the health of the ecosystem. Most of us who are maniacal with a grass cutting regimen, do not consider our actions as ugly even though we keep cutting down food each time it tries to grow and we make sure we get every single plant by using weed eaters and other trimmers where our lawnmowers can't reach. We consider a wide expanse of low plants to be a thing of beauty yet the farmer who planted those plants and causes them to grow to feed the billions and trillions of lives in the soil and surrounding environment, most certainly does not feel the same way.
If we understood farming as the essential activity that guides all thinking and behavior, we'd certainly at least change a little. In the above example, the maniacal mowers are cultivating pretentious beauty and pride and the appearance they are a good neighbor and citizen. All this is to please other humans, which runs counter to the purposes of growth, development and maturity, which guides farmers who are in pursuit of health.
