Saving the Mother Earth By Changing Our Mind
Saving the Mother Earth By Changing Our Mind Life in Buddhism has tons of meaning, some of them belive that a person’s life does not belong to himself but belongs to the whole cosmos. Nichiren, a Buddhist in Japan spent his life teaching Buddhism, said that "Life is the most precious of all treasures. Even one extra day of life is worth more than ten million ryo of gold”. Since they treat life as their priceless treasure, their studies usually focus on how to protect people’s life. Moreover, in order to protect the life of people, we need to maintain our world under the good condition. Thich Naht Hanh in chapter three of his book, “The World We Have”, expresses an idea that a mindful diet can be an effective way to protect our world from many kind of crisis that are happening around us by changing the way we consume foods. Mindful eating means that we need to pay attention of the foods we are eating, and at the same time try to imagine the connection of the foods we our life and our environment. Since we are in the practice of eating with mindfulness, we are on our way to protect the mother earth from crisis. What is the most important thing in your life? This is a question that we may hear and ask every day, and different people would have different answer because everyone has something that they carving for. However, people usually ignore that without our mother earth, we may not have chance to accomplish what we are carving for. In addition, a healthy life is also playing an important part on our way to fulfill our dreams. Therefore, to maintain our world and health under the good circumstance always be the priority in our life. We all know that the global warming and greenhouse effect or other kinds of environmental problems are the biggest concern around the world. Some of the environmental agencies are trying to figure out the solution for these
Cited: Hanh, Thich Nhat. “The World We Have.” United Buddhist Church Inc, Canada, 2008