Do we remember to honor the plants...?

For everything I remove from the ground, I plant another, and say a blessing, and I never take more than I need.

 

well i dont know if this is honering the plants, but i set aside some time to go outside in nature and meditate, sometimes i can feel the earth growing around me. and of course i thank God that He made the plants for us to eat

 

i honor the farmers by paying them....
and honor the plants by saying "mmm...youre so yummy!"

 

I take time to consider where my food came from and give a little mental thank you. I also have a small compost pile where I put fruit and vegetable scraps so they can return to the earth.

 

I spread caring information and support to others, on plant-based diets... so fewer plants are taken..


I move towards eating less food, and explore the benefits of it
http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6447.html reduced aging...

I move towards eating fruits, that would fall naturally from the trees..

I appreciate plants when i am around them...

I compost parts that I don't eat

I recycle the plants I've eaten back to the system, and it also lessens the overwhelm on water treatment centers and their discharges.
Peeing outdoors is easiest, or collecting it in a jar and putting it outside later.
I will recycle the poo also when my situation changes to allow it.

and I explore the common energetic basis of us all. all are made of atoms and subatomic particles, which are made of energy. all are drops of water in the same ocean. My body comes from the matter I've eaten and drank, and the sunlight and prana. Without these my body would have stopped growing shortly after birth.
It is not "my body"... it is matter and energy that I temporarily borrow from the rest of everything, and will eventually give it back.

An small acorn can attract minerals, water, sunlight and CO2 and become a 60foot tall oak tree.

 

I really like how you put that

 

I plan to give my body back to nature too. I fail to see the point in trying to preserve it.

 

i buy from local growers. To me that's a huge deal...I don't want my money to go to some rich grocer down in florida who's food goes bad within a day of me receving it. i make sure i eat them all up every day and let them do their job to warm my belly. i try not to waste any and when i do i feel bad. that's all i feel necessary. I do so much already to honor the earth and all it's beauty....so food fits there too. it's all kind of in an inclusive deal

 

when the time comes for 'my' body to go back into the source, I'll be looking forward to finally being able to discover what absolute out-of-body is.

With plants (and animals), I feel that their bodies are not 'them'... their bodies are just vessels that they inhabit and help them move around and experience the world. So bodily death doesn't seem a harmful thing to me.. just is part of the process. Being respected and cared for, and free to hmm learn? grow? seem to be what matters, in my feelings at least.

I cut the grass where I live now due to living arrangements. I chose to spend money and time to at least use a human-powered reel-mower. No gasoline (air pollution, oil spills, oil exploration, oil politics), cuts the grass in a way that helps it heal itself easier, and makes less noise/fear for all the animals and neighbors near the yard. Eventually I'll be able to move to a place where i can respect the grass as I truly wish to... and not cut it And all the crickets and moths and grasshoppers will have a safer home then too.


that is such an adorable body of a pig

here's another baby pig photo that's great..


Vegetarian is fruits, beans, grains, seeds, and nuts too! Fruits are the best group according to my body.

 

realizing that sc "waste" isnt waste: i composte, even while livin in the city, always. give back to nature the peels, and seeds and skins...
trees can sometimes be a mindopener, helper.
i read a book about this guy who talked to plants, and his disciple couldnt do it because he just felt totally ridicullous. then, after many month, he started, but it was very difficult to him. he realized why it was so difficult: because our ego tells us: "come on, you are so much more evolved than a plant, it's JUST a plant...."