Good morning!
After the compassionate rain we are now at 55 degrees, going up to 69. So, it will be very good cool workable weather with the soil in good conditionfor weeding and planting.
Just before I came here I watched the beginning part of a special program on food loss from Japan. Japan supplies only 39% of its own food, and still it has ten million tons of food loss – it is actually discarding usable food.
The NPO Second Harvest delivered sixteen million tons of food to needy people, food that manufacturers couldn’t ship within the mandated delivery time – one third of the usable period of food, etc.
We can make resources rather than waste them. But bureaucrats make these kind of regulations, and politicians want nuclear reactors restart against people’s wishes for safety and their willingness to save energy. They lack mottainai spirit, expending the unexpendable.
The pyramidal system by sinful (separated) selfish ways is causing such problems as starvation, powerty, nukes, wars, and mass extinction. So, we need to return to t he original wholly wholesome world and ways.
For that we need to come back to the origin ourselves, before humans started human artifices, stopping human karmas, and settling in the dharma (form/norm: truth/law of dependent origination) dhâtu (domain, lit. root realm).
6/1/12
Note: Mottainai (勿体無い＝物体無い, lit. matter-less: loss of matter‘s essence), a Japanese word difficult to translate, but may be rendered as “too precious to waste.” The Nobel Peace prizer Wangari Maathai, very much impressed by this spirit during the Kyoto Protocol meeting, wore a shirt with MOTTAINAI written on it. She laer published a book urging people to embrace this concept in their day to day life, and popularlized the term worldwide.
