Work for Mother Earth
Kohei Kitayama
All is beautiful behind me
All is beautiful before me
All is beautiful above me
All is beautiful below me
All is beautiful all around me
For I have been found
and everything is beautiful.
\\\Navaho Chant
There are countless gsacred placesh on the earth, places at which there is, unmistakably a concentration of energy and consciousness. This is why human beings, sacred places, and religion have been so intimately connected.
There are also temples, shrines and churches in many places as well as the ancient remains of such. Every religion has its sacred place. But sacred places do not exist in isolation from one another; all are firmly connected by an invisible thread. Some places are completely devoid of anything made by humans, yet are regarded as sacred places. In such places, to leave the mark of anything human is considered tantamount to defiling the land.
This is not very different from the aversion we have trash on a mountain.
A sacred place is gsacredh because its is there that human beings re linked with the Great Spirit of Mother Earth. Such places are not only important to human beings but also extremely important to the planet earth itself. To borrow an analogy from Oriental Medicine, these places can be seen as the gEarth acupunctureh or gvital pointsh. The fact that comicenergy passes through them proves that the earth is alive. We experience there the fact that the earth is alive, conscious and thinking. Just as in the human body there are many vital points that circulate life energy, so too there are many vital points that keep the earth alive. These are the gsacred placesh. And in these places all life is found to be deeply interrelated physically, spiritually, and ecologically. Time and space breathe there. These places are invisible umbilical cords, linking life to the earth. It is a profoundly interesting fact that most traditional people, peoples who have not forgotten that the earth is alive, believe that the destruction of their sacred places brings calamity upon all of humanity. Sacred places have somehow been preserved thanks to these people who know that all life on this earthis linked like the meshes of a net. Those people had the eyes to see the Great Spirit in sacred things.
But through computers, telecommunications satellites, and mass communications networks, we witness the rapid changes of the earth itself on an everyday basis. The eyes of science do not allow us to see as far as the Great Spirit, for it cannot be measured by any ruler or yardstick. As a child wrecks his toys, so too, in the name of development, sacred places in every part of the earth are being destroyed. This is happening everywhere in the world. Life and the earth are linked by an invisible umbilical cord through the sacred places. Now that link is about to be broken by human hands.
The destruction of the land knows no bounds. Extinguishing the sacred places is equivalent to humanity cutting off its own life support system.
Now is the time to restore our sacred relationship with the earth. By stepping outside of industrialized society and experiencing the sacred places, one can realize that the earth is alive and can begin to learn once again to live with all the life on this earth. We must turn our consciousness once again toward that planet called Earth. And engrave in our hears that vision of the sacred place seen from the cosmos\\the earth itself.
FROM " Sacred Places" Tokyo FM Books Publications
Text ©Kouhei Kitayama
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