From the Practice
Through our senses, the Earth can know itself, can see itself, hear itself, feel itself, smell itself, touch itself. So just feeling into what it feels like to know your body as a landscape, as a terrain of Earth.
… fast forwarding to recent times and the shifting, the decimating of the animals that roam through your grasslands, and the turning of those wild prairies and open spaces and valleys into agriculture, into rows of corn, rows of wheat. And your soil, the land, is beginning to be poisoned with chemicals and nitrates. As far as the eye can see, monocrops, few animals, few insects, sound of birds disappeared.
You notice that there’s pockets, people incredibly creative, finding ways to regenerate the coral reefs on old sunken boats and discarded metal, finding ways to keep the coral alive, to allow new coral to be birthed, pockets, small pockets, but still pockets of hope, of aliveness.
And then you come to a place like this, to a meeting like this. You connect with other people who are engaged, who care, who love the Earth, who are committed to doing something. Just like Greta, you no longer feel alone. You realize you’re part of a vast network. The Earth’s immune system that’s waking up to what we’re losing. That’s waking up to grief. That’s waking up to realizing we need to radically transform how we live.
Mark offered this practice at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Find the transcript here: Being the Earth – Mark Coleman
