...
Llewellyn:... We're a culture of mass distractions. We try to avoid at all costs seeing the real fruits of our actions.
You talk about practices; I would say the most important practice is to
listen. Thich Nhat Hanh said to heal the earth, he says to listen to
its cry because the earth is crying, but we don't know how to listen.
We've forgotten this feminine wisdom of deep listening. If there is deep
ecology, there is deep listening. We have to relearn this feminine
wisdom of listening to the earth. It is so old, it is so wise, it has
been through many crises before, and we need to cooperate.
In fact, Thomas Berry says we are only talking to ourselves; we are not
talking to the rivers; we are not listening to the winds and stars; we
have broken the great conversation. By breaking that conversation we
have shattered the universe. And we have to learn again how to listen to
the earth, and how to open that ear of the heart. We have been told
this great lie that we are separate from the earth, that it is something
out there. It is not out there, we are part of the earth. We are made
of stardust.
We need to feel the grief within our own self for the earth and learn
to listen to the earth, learn to hear it, learn to re-attune ourselves,
just like the shamans did of old, just like the wise people who listened
to the wind, who listened to the rivers, who felt the heartbeat of
creation. And it might not sound very practical but it has a deep, deep
wisdom within it, and I think we need all the help we can get at the
moment.
Matthew: Absolutely. And that's where the
world's spiritual traditions, if they get out of their anthropocentric,
reptilian brain dimension of wanting to conquer each other and be number
one or something gets shaken down, and as you say, bring this feminine
dimension back, the receptivity and contemplation and silence.
Llewellyn: And not to rush for a quick fix,
because I don't think we can quickly fix this environmental crisis. It
has been building up for centuries.
Matthew: I do think that the patriarchal
mindset feeds the reptilian brain excessively, whereas, I think the real
way to treat the reptilian brain is to learn to meditate and be still,
because reptiles like to lie low and in the sun… We have to make room
for that mammal brain, which is half as old as the reptilian brain in
us, which is the brain of compassion and the brain of kinship and
family, and also of getting along with the rest of nature....
August 30, 2013 By
bioneers
(found at: http://conference.bioneers.org/sacred-activism-engaging-communities-faith-environmental-advocacy/)
Fotos: Annika Jung
.
Entradas
