It's spring today

I’m smelling spring. In the scent of the Japanese cherry trees blossoming nearby. I smell them in the flowers in the grass. And just in the air, when the wind is right and I am looking in the right direction. And I feel it in my body.

If you are a little bit like me (an optimist? A very naïve person? A complete nutcase?) perhaps you also feel another Spring arriving. A bigger Spring. Perhaps you are noticing how, slowly but surely, another time is approaching. A time of more consciousness, more softness, more compassion, more wisdom. A time in which we finally succeed at telling the important from the unimportant. It started recently, with a small group of people . Right now, it’s catching up speed. And soon we are a waterfall that can no longer be stopped.

And yet… spring, today, is no longer obvious. Predicting the weather is more difficult every day. Years ago, Rachel Carson wrote about a “silent spring”, one without birdsong, and perhaps without cherry blossoms. The predictions for the future are dire and nothing is sure.

But of course spring will keep coming! Of course the birds keep singing! Of course the blossoms will keep bringing us joy every year. Of course that big Spring is coming. Because you and I are working for it! Together, we eat our way to another time in a new world. The fork, as Gandhi said, is the mightiest weapon on the world.

So grab your weapon! It’s up to us.

Let’s promise each other a wonderful spring!
Enjoy your meal

Imagination

Everything starts with an image. An idea. A thought. Perhaps we will never be attain what we were never able to imagine.
I am able to imagine a better human being. A human who has rid himself of anger, of fear, of jealousy, of the need for approval. A being who can devote his entire attention to the wellbeing of others, because he himself is happy and knows that he is safe. A person whose center is love. He is not involved in proving himself, securing his future, finding money or food or shelter, because he knows he will never lack anything anymore in his lifetime.

Is this so hard to imagine?
If so, why?