How Wolves Change Rivers

An eye to maintaining ecosystem health is essential to successful society...

(Medicine for the People) ღ Aloha Ke Akua - Medicine for our soul.

The heavens within my body

Heavens open

Like a heart full of joy

To all of the voices

Holding hands of light

Singing the one sound

Which is created 

By the well being of all beings

In all realms

In all time

Resonating silence

Effulgent fragrant choir

Fills every star cell

Of the galaxy 

Of my body

"Evolutionism" vs "Creationism"

At the core of the debate between scientism and religion is the disagreement as to the nature of matter, life and consciousness.

For example – as you know–  each would have an entirely different way of answering the question which is emblematic of the debate: "What is the nature of the force that governs and drives 'natural selection'?"

Were we to take a more integrated and multidisciplinary approach to understanding life we may have a more comprehensive, and intellectually satisfying, explanation of the questions of how we got here, and how we solve the world's greatest challenges.

One of my favorite ideas is consilience – the convergence of many disciplines into a more comprehensive understanding of reality. Here's a link to a book named "Consilience" which is a favorite of mine.

For those curious about these ideas, there's a number of items which are not usually brought to mind in the conversation between "Creationism" and "Evolution" 

Amit Goswami – Physicist who was first brought to my attention through the movie "What the Bleep DoWe Know?"  

Amit wrote a book called "Creative Evolution – A Physicists Resolution Between Darwinism andIntelligent Design" 

Henry Bergson who's anti-Darwin theories won a nobel prize.

Alternatively - Wendell Berry is an outspoken critic of E.O. Wilson's book  – in his book "Life is a Miracle" 

Similarly, rational philosopher, Thomas Nagel wrote an extremely thought provoking book “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False,”   

Here's an article which sums up his book.

I offer these in the spirit of open inquiry with no conclusive result.

One thing is for certain for me – neither of the belief systems provided by Evolutionism nor Creationism offer a sound explanation which effectively explains the the origins of intelligent life and consciousness, which really inspires me to continue to learn more every day.

A model for intimacy with all life.

Big mind, small mind, same.

"That everything is included within your mind is the essence of mind. To experience this is to have religious feeling. Even though waves just arise, the essence of your mind is pure; it is just like clear water with a few waves. Actually water always has waves. Waves are the practice of water. To speak of waves apart from water or water apart from waves is a delusion. Water and waves are one. Big mind and small mind are one. When you understand your mind in this way, you have some security in your feeling. As your mind does not expect anything from the outside, it is always filled. A mind with waves in it is not a disturbed mind, but actually an amplified one. Whatever you experience is an experience of big mind." - Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind"  

Or - I'm a wave in the big mind.

some tea thoughts....

Tea embraces the embodied paradox that we live moment by moment.

There's no struggle, only calm joy arising from the recognition of the simple practice which frees the mind into the heart, the expanse of being in the interior of our embodied experience. Apparent limitation, density, contraction and matter are seen as a continuum from tea cup to our lips to our being.  We flow from the finite to the infinite and back again, spiraling into presence through a simple act of bridging nature into humanity, through the meeting of all time and space into a simple cup of tea.

Tea, the moment of the dance, the bridge, the nexus, the crucible of calm joy, living souls experiencing immortality through the most limited experience unlocking the expanse of cosmic awareness.

As the poetry in motion, flowing through the cup, each drop separate or connected? Each leaf in your cup, separate or united? Or both? These are the insights which arise from the joy of the leaf meeting water meeting human meeting nature.

Here we are – all in our "separate" times and spaces, yet the paradox of tea connecting us all together – joins us in the day to day living – with technophiles – and technophobes – alike – all joining in unison with the merging of the interior of space as we watch the tea fall into the abyss of being through the portal of our lips.