{"id":417,"date":"2007-07-10T09:47:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T22:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/10\/417\/"},"modified":"2007-07-10T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T22:47:22","slug":"417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/07\/10\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mother Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tree-clouds-m2.jpg\" title=\"tree-clouds-m2.jpg\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tree-clouds-m2.jpg\" title=\"tree-clouds-m2.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tree-clouds-m2.jpg\" title=\"tree-clouds-m2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tree-clouds-m2.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"tree-clouds-m2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Dear Beloved Mother Earth, Our Holy Guru,<br \/>\nSince the timeless creation of Your very first breath,<br \/>\nYou have been The Great Evolution, the grand source of all,<br \/>\nAnd humankind has been walking, perplexed, by Your side.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>You have given us the powers of five sacred elements,<br \/>\nAnd we have created our own laws distant from their command.<br \/>\nYou have given us soaring mountains to climb,<br \/>\nWhile we have merely made the ego our ascent.<br \/>\nYou have given us deserts to inspire dreams of eternity,<br \/>\nAnd we have chosen an insatiable quest for all that is mortal. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>You have given us your seas to embrace and rock us gently,<br \/>\nWhile we have taken comfort in our conquering nature instead.<br \/>\nYou have given us cool soils to calm our weary feet,<br \/>\nWhile we have marched on and on, victims of our own polarity.<br \/>\nYou have given us Your skies to open up our every inspiration,<br \/>\nBut we have failed to overcome the feebleness of our thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>You have given us the splendour of flowers as a muse,<br \/>\nAnd we instead have revered material things.<br \/>\nYou have given us all the creatures to teach harmony and difference,<br \/>\nWhile we have practiced prejudice and distrust amongst ourselves.<br \/>\nYou have given us the joy of Your peaceful attention,<br \/>\nAnd we have remained distracted by the ticking clocks of our minds. <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>You have given us whispering winds, the desire for our seeking,<br \/>\nWhile we have been lost in a search for mere desperations.<br \/>\nYou have forgiven us time and again for our ignorance and our deeds,<br \/>\nBut we continue blindly flirting with absurdity and danger.<br \/>\nYou have trusted us as the guardians of Your delightful creation,<br \/>\nAnd we have brought it now to the edge of devastation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>&#8230; <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>May we learn to make with our hands what is hidden inside our hearts,<br \/>\nLearning to live with less, with satisfaction and charity in our souls.<br \/>\nMay we swiftly abandon all falsely created needs, our greed,<br \/>\nAnd discard all illusions of richness, vanity and self-indulgence.<br \/>\nMay we sense the urgency to make changes in our daily actions,<br \/>\nTo discover the Metascience of Your nature and to share it with all.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Melissa Richard<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">(Photograph: bigfoto.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Beloved Mother Earth, Our Holy Guru, Since the timeless creation of Your very first breath, You have been The Great Evolution, the grand source of all, And humankind has been walking, perplexed, by Your side. 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