Ode to Trees
Today we are removing some trees, scrub trees to be sure, but trees nonetheless and there is a small prayaschitta to be done. Yes, we are preparing the ground for more trees, many trees and much to live beneath those trees. Sad, our joy today.
So we give a small space to honor the tree. The photos here are of the immense and the ancient, the gnarled and the odd, but every tree is a bit of Siva's Self, howsoever plain and ignored by the wayside where it give life and shade to passersby.
Enjoy the slideshow and plant, if you can, 12 trees each year or see that they are planted.
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From Our Gurus' Teachings
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August 5th, 2014 at 7:46 pm
“When we are stricken and cannot bear our lives any longer, then a tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me! Life is not easy, life is not difficult. Those are childish thoughts. Let God speak within you, and your thoughts will grow silent.” Hermann Hesse
August 6th, 2014 at 9:54 am
Aum Sivaya
Beautiful old,old trees! Thank you very much for the gift of sharing with us.
August 8th, 2014 at 8:21 am
Wonderful ode to our magnificent companions. As with the honeybee, the earthworm, and scores of other inhabitants of planet earth, they provide for us often un-aware beings – food, shelter, and the splendor of Lord Siva’s graciousness in His creations.