joni50
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Started my spring veggie garden, guilt-free!
Yeah, here in lovely New Orleans it's spring garden planting time already! My urban apt. garden is a large planter filled with enriched soil and water-retaining polymer granules, and I grow a few vegetables and herbs in it. As I cleared the ground for this year's tomatoes, I was aware of a wonderful sensatoin of being free of guilt and shame over removing the weeds! Yeah, the uni takes injunctions like "thou shalt not kill" very seriously and very literally, and common works such as weeding the garden, harvesting, and cutting veggies for the pot and the table can become intense moral dillemas! As they have been, for me.
Now, however, I'm free of such worries. The command is not "thou shalt not kill", which is impossible as long as we live in these bodies. Instead, it is "harm nothing with malice." Thank you, Huna!
I feel that such attitude adjustments are every bit as much a healing as some of the more dramatic physical healings we occiaionally experience. Perhaps even more so. Unwarranted guilt and worry can be just as cripling as physical difficulties, and it is likely that such emotional impediments can eventually manifest as serious physical illness. So clearing such complexes and fixations amount to healing projected into the past and future! -- Joni
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Feb/18/2005, 10:24 am
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