Culture/Society

PERCEPTIONS

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I wrote this poem as the idea inspired me while i was teaching a group of students. How do people perceive us and what do they think about us and what shoulld our aim be.

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* Poems Of Hinduism I

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Hindu
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Muralishwar is God the
Lord of flutes
Garudeshwara: Lord of
Garuda, the eagle carrier of Krishna

NYCTITROPIC: plants which physically change in the evening.. During the day the cup-like blossoms hang downwards, but just as a sunflower follows the sun, yucca flowers swivel to face the sky at night and emit their fragrance. Pheromones or scent attracts the yucca moths,
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Kriyananda: My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Starseed Transmissions: (paraphrased) The blue electric grid of thought gathers tiny particles of matter and eventually heavies out into reality. Dennis Weaver became a follower of Yogananda reading Yogananda's guru's book The Holy Science on the set of Gunsmoke. Dick Haymes was a follower of Yogananda. Dennis (marswalker) has a guru, Yogananda, who was always saddened by lies, by negative speech. Yogananda praised his devotee Gnana Mata, who, he said, never spoke nor even thought a negative word. Yogananda wrote Autobiography Of A Yogi, was the first apostle of positive thought in the West, started the 1st vegetarian restaurant in the US

Poornavatar Full poorna
Poornachandra full moon
(auditorium in Puttaparthi)
poornananda total joy

Lord of Cats & Rats
is to C Drake and B Mick

Ganesha is God as
creative intelligence,
the remover of obstacles,
the bringer of good luck,
the Lord of good beginnings
Baba: Why pluck a flower
and hasten its death.
George Bernard Shaw:
I love little children
too but I don't cut off
their heads and stick
them in vases
attar: the essence of
a flower
Jasmine is associated
with the avatar
http://www.sathyasai.org
http://www.eaisai.com/baba
Swami Prabhupada: Do not
cut back the tulsi
at the Hawaii temple

Tamil & Telugu are 90%
Sanskrit, the only
language on earth whose
characters match
the vibrational pattern
of their soundwaves.
Each syllable of Sanskrit
is linked to the vibration
of a different star.
Sanskrit has 8 conjugations and 8 declensions. It has
been called by Sir Wm
James of the Asiatic Society 'more perfect
than Latin, more copious
than Greek, more exquisitely refined than
either'.

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TREES trees: 23 ways to protect them

Kriyananda: My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Starseed Transmissions: (paraphrased) The blue electric grid of thought gathers tiny particles of matter and eventually heavies out into reality. Dennis Weaver became a follower of Yogananda reading Yogananda's guru's book The Holy Science on the set of Gunsmoke. Dick Haymes was a follower of Yogananda. Dennis (marswalker) has a guru, Yogananda, who was always saddened by lies, by negative speech. Yogananda praised his devotee Gnana Mata, who, he said, never spoke nor even thought a negative word. Yogananda wrote Autobiography Of A Yogi, was the first apostle of positive thought in the West, started the 1st vegetarian restaurant in the US

23 WAYS TO HELP TREES 50 REASONS NOT TO MOW
RETURN RAIN TO DROUGHT AREAS.. PLANT TREES

It was an Australian, Richard St Barbe Baker, who convinced Franklin
Roosevelt, US president,
to plant billions of trees. .

mowing does not occur

Father Mother God make the earth warm where it is cold
and cool it down in Indian areas in which it is too hot. Make
earth weather gentle and nonviolent now and forever. Cause all
to obey Your commands not to kill animals.. not to kill plants.
Genesis 1 29

Please download with 100% cotton, rice, recycled, or scrap paper.

In 2002, the world has seen floods, famine, fire, mudslides,
hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created by the unprecedented
destruction of trees around the world. Trees are nature's weather
the Hard Rock Cafes he founded
after
becoming a vegetarian. (Dandelions would rather be plucked by 7 year
old
boys like Jai Len who consider them bubble blowing sticks.. than by a
machine.) Pachysandra, myrtle, snow on the mountain, and camomile
are
some ground covers which do not offend more conservative neighbors.
2: WILDFLOWER SANCTUARY Those like Lady Bird Johnson who have
worked
to
foster protection of wildflowers know the necessity of more wild
places.
3: ENDING BOTANICAL RACISM E. Duffy Woodford is the first person
who
has spoken to us of botanical racism. This phrase means different
things
to different people. To us it means that weeds have as much right to
exist
as do plants with cultivated blooms.
The spirit-filled volunteers called weeds are usually stronger, more
and more prolific than cultivated plants.
V: DIVINE RIGHT:
1. Mother Earth blesses those who abandon controlling and
manipulating
her.
2. God does not like lawnmowers.
(Joel 1: The land mourns the destruction of plants.)
(Isaiah: Break not the bruised reed.)

HOW TO SAVE TREES AND REFOREST THE EARTH

1. eat fruit which supplies demand for those who plant orchards
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
2. save fruit seeds and scatter them in wild places http://www.ran.org
3. plant trees http://www.freetree.org
4. Get your news on the web. Metropolitan dailies and news magazines
account for trillions of
trees annually. http://www.earthisland.org
5. Consider a water hose or 100% recycled toilet paper.
6. Build with stone and stucco, brick and block, and other nontree
materials.
7. Purchase furniture which is used and refurbish it or buy metal
furniture with cotton padding.
There are many nontree furniture options. The furniture, lumber,
and
construction businesses
have lobbied for the cutting down of US forests, whereas the UK
requires a permit to cut down
old trees.
8. Publish newsletters on cotton, rice, recycled, or rag paper. A
growing number of recycled firms
are collecting rags for paper.
9. stop mowing or reduce mowing.
10. Take a canvas bag to the supermarket.
11. The cattle industry is a major deforester, producing food
yielding
100 to 1000 lbs an acre
whereas fruit orchards yield 450,000 lbs an acre. The less meat we
eat the better for Mother Earth.
12. The unused backs of 8 l/2 x 11 paper, the use of recycled
stationery

IF YOU WILL JOIN THE EVERGREEN NETWORK PLEASE EMAIL US SO AT
freelibrary27@y... There is no financial, action, or other
obligation.
In an editorial on March 19, 1977, the Washington Post editorialized:
"the tall grass can only benefit the citizens who seek the
beauty of Rock Creek Park". That year the National Park Service
instituted a 'meadows' program to let some areas return to
nature. The Post mentioned the federal court case victory of an Akron
citizen who fought the city's compulsory
lawnmowing ordinance. "Nature is ready to cooperate. Some citizen
cooperation is next." In addition the Post's Richard Cohen
reported on a lawn mowed by a guinea pig named Bijou. Phil Shenon of
the New York Times has covered no-mow activists
such as Alice Herrington, then president of Friends of Animals. The
BBC, NPR, and Australian Broadcasting are some
international networks which have covered the advantages of
nonmowing.
The Los Angeles Times also editorialized in favor of
not mowing. The Atlanta Constitution outlined reasons not to mow in
an
article by Lewis Regenstein. Omni Magazine, The
Christian Science Monitor, Organic Gardening, Anita Manning of USA
Today, Vegetarian Times, OMNI magazine, German
newspapers, and many other publications have promoted the idea of
nonmowing.

Patrick Velasquez of the US Agency For International Development
studied Senegalese forest. He said the cost of planting
other country exotics there was $25 to $50 per tree, with 19%
survival
rate whereas
natural regeneration (which occurs from nonmowing) is free. The USDA
in 1998 has signed onto the National Wildlife
Federation's Backyard Conservation plan.. which encourages people to
let the area behind their homes grow wild for the sake
of the environment. One university police station has 'corn on the
curb'. The Spanish poet Lorca, assassinated by Franco: "They
cut timber and lioness teats as easily as if they were baking bread".
Sterling North: We are but the ephemera of the moment, the
brief
custodians of redwoods which were ancient when Christ was born.
Recently the governor of one of the largest states in the country
promised to plant l million trees in his state and said that trees,
do
indeed, call down rain.
(Those areas with the most devastation this winter from icestorms,
mudslides,
flood and tornado were for the most part places which had cut down
tens of thousands of trees in the last 20 years.)
. The Nicaraguan Network Environmental Task Force calls on
multinationals
to stop devastating Atlantic forests.. linked to Hurricane Mitch
202 544 9355 Soren Ambrose or email Pronatur@n...
. Greenpeace protests cutting of Canadian rainforest trees in
Vancouver and elsewhere. lumber sent
to Holland.. Dutch judge orders Greenpeace out of site
Senator Kay Hutchison of Texas on CNN on July 16 said that perhaps
the
drought and high temperatures will continue for several years. But
each
state has the choice to support the planting of millions of fruit
trees
as natural cooling beings.. or to continue the environmental
devastation
of the cattle, pork, chicken, and egg industries.
Covering Mother Earth with too much concrete can suffocate her.. and
give her lung cancer. May all help her to breathe.

T Earley: They see a tiny little dandelion and call in chemical
trucks to pour gallons of toxic chemicals on her.. which end up
in the flood plains and then in our streams and rivers.

http://www.ran.org
http://www.madcowboy.com
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
http://www.vegdining.com
http://www.ivu.org
http://www.vegsource.com
http://www.goveg.com/meetmeat.html
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow/244
http://www.meatout.com
http://www.vrg.org
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.peta.org
http://www.hogwatch.org
http://www.hogwatchmanitoba.org
http://www.jewishveg.com
http://www.islamveg.com
http://www.hacres.com
http://www.all-creatures.org
http://www.jesusveg.com
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.greenpeace.org
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian tree based diets
http://www.ran.org http://www.keeper.org http://www.greens.org
http://www.sierraclub.org http://www.earthisland.org
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow
http://www.egroups.com/messages/treerights
http://www.greenpeace.org
http://www.freetree.org http://www.epa.gov (wild lawns or natural
landscapes links)

3 Hindu parables

a. the child plays
with his toys..
until finally tired
of them he runs to
his mother
b. the elephant
is caught in the jaws
of the crocodile
of maya, until
exhausted he looks
to Shiva for help
c. Balaram fought the
demon all night..
to a standstill..
Krishna with 1 smile
of unconditional love
melted the demon's
rage

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It is not known by
all that upon Thomas Jefferson's death over 200
of his slaves were
sold on the auction
block.. slaves in many cases who
had worked for him
their entire lives

Jefferson fought to
make Missouri a slave
state..

His legacy lives on
as both Missouri
and Virginia are
in the execution column
of states with racist
patterns of imposing
the death penalty

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