So the indigenous peoples acted in their own self-defence, and ours. Using their own bodies and weapons made from wood, they blockaded the rivers and roads to stop the oil companies getting anything in or out. They captured two valves of Peru's sole pipeline between the country's gas field and the coast, which could have led to fuel-rationing. Their leaders issued a statement explaining: "We will fight together with our parents and children to take care of the forest, to save the life of the equator and the entire world."
Garcia responded by sending in the military. He declared a "state of emergency" in the Amazon, suspending almost all constitutional rights. Army helicopters opened fire on the protesters with live ammunition and stun-grenades. More than a dozen were killed. But the indigenous peoples did not run away. Even though they were risking their lives, they stood their ground. One of their leaders, Davi Yanomami, said simply: "The earth has no price. It cannot be bought, or sold or exchanged. It is very important that white people, black people and indigenous peoples fight together to save the life of the forest and the earth. If we don't fight together, what will our future be?"
And then something extraordinary happened. The indigenous peoples won. The Peruvian Congress repealed the laws that allowed oil company drilling, by a margin of 82 votes to 12. Garcia was forced to apologise for his "serious errors and exaggerations". The protesters have celebrated and returned to their homes deep in the Amazon.
Three hands
There is a region in the heart, which not only connects to ones own happiness but everyone. To have this permanent is such a bliss. We have three hands, a heart for helping ourselves and two hands for helping others achieve their happiness.
We are totally identified with our mind and so we constantly worry about our happiness / sadness, which are nothing but arbitrary neural states in the mind. We worry about them as we are identified with them. So we resist what is. What is, is this wonderful world. When we start to disidentify with the mind, we learn to accept the What is. Only then, we will see the wonderful world and stop whining and crying.Of course all this commentary is not needed if we can enjoy the wonderful world and this song instead of whining and crying. In some circumstances, all the words of masters like Osho and JK stand so ridiculously useless in front of the ability of such a song in raising consciousness. This happened to me yesterday when I was introduced to this song (again, from the chat, edited for the sake of coherence)
I was reading about zen, enlightenment, Osho etc yesterday around midnight and I was in quite an awful mood. I was machine like clicking through for about an hour. In addition, I had some porn videos open that I was sampling now and then. My mechanical link clicking led me to the zen story of10 bulls. This video was embedded in that page but it took some time to load. I did not notice it then. As I was half way through the story, suddenly this song started playing and in a second I woke up from that machine like state. There was a sudden shift in consciousness. I was suddenly extraordinarily awake. I thought what bullshit - porn videos and stupid JK/Osho words. I closed all windows and listened to this at least 5-6 times. What the words of Osho and JK could not do then, this song did it so easily!
If you chant any word or any mantra continuously inside the mind, other thoughts stop because they don't have any space. And this continuous chanting is a certain device of auto-hypnosis; it is not meditation. It does not lead you to any spiritual enlightenment, but it certainly gives you a good feeling of wellbeing and health. You will feel refreshed -- just as you feel refreshed after a good shower;
The mind exists in a state of "not enough" and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and restless very easily. Boredom means the mind is hungry for more stimulus, more food for thought, and its hunger is not being satisfied.
When you feel bored, you can satisfy the mind's hunger by picking up a magazine, making a phone call, switching on the TV, surfing the web, going shopping, or — and this is not uncommon — transferring the mental sense of lack and its need for more to the body and satisfy it briefly by ingesting more food.
Or you can stay bored and restless and observe what it feels like to be bored and restless. As you bring awareness to the feeling, there is suddenly some space and stillness around it, as it were. A little at first, but as the sense of inner space grows, the feeling of boredom will begin to diminish in intensity and significance. So even boredom can teach you who you are and who you are not.
You discover that a "bored person" is not who you are. Boredom is simply a conditioned energy movement within you. Neither are you an angry, sad, or fearful person. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not "yours," not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go.
Nothing that comes and goes is you.
"I am bored." Who knows this?
"I am angry, sad, afraid." Who knows this?
You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
