In Buddha teaching, human body are made of mind and matter. The matter are make up of four elements, ie soil, water, fire and air. Our Earth, is also make up of this four elements.
Thus, soil is our Earth’s skin, the water on earth is just like our bloodstream, and air our breath. The fire is our sun, evaporating water and regulating the weather.
Our earth regulates its own temperature, oxygen levels, CO2 level, etc, much like our own human body controls temperature and rebuilds its parts constantly. If our body regulation is inbalance, we will have fever. Similary if the earth temperature was not properly regulated, our earth will have fever. Human body are operate exactly like our earth. When human die, our physical body will return to our mother earth as soil, water, fire and earth. So, we are part of the earth. Human species are the only special with moral intelligence, therefore our mind, human being mind are the mind of Gaia (The Greek earth Godness). So, without love, morality and ethics from the individual person, it is difficult to devise a sustainable environmental.
Accordingly, if we take the notion that “The world is our body”, then Gaia is our mind and conscience. Without our love of our body – planet, How can we maintain our health ?
Marielle Trinidad said,
February 19, 2008 at 5:09 pm
It is true that Gaia is our mind, for our mind governs all actions that comes out from our physical being. What is ironic though, is that we let our minds traverse into the wilderness of dark thoughts, maligning all the senses that destroys the human being. I believe that we are subject to the rules of nature and we shall protect these rules if we want to live a longer and healthier life, filled with love, unity, respect and honesty.
Hope you can visit my site: http://striker420.blogspot.com
Thank you for the guidance.
Sincerely,
Dewi Magenta
Marielle Trinidad said,
February 19, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I would like to request to put a link to your site on mine. Please let me know if that is possible.
Thank you.
Ed Fisher said,
March 11, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Since you are advancing Gaia Consciousness in your lovely blog, I am pleased you are using my image of Gaia however in your html the image format is distorted so she and Earth appear painfully compressed. Hope you will reinflate her to her full beauty. Sincere regards, maya-gaia
JiYan said,
March 11, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Ed Fisher,
Thank you for your image. I reinflated her. Sincerely Thanks.