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**SAUNDERSAN** · 12-28-2011, 10:36 PM

I liked this ones...

Chop wood and carry water...

I'm keeping it simple... Meditate... Be kind... Read something about Buddhism...

This will do for now

plwk's one, remembers me a huge task about studying the deep meaning of chopping wood at a Mayan village. We were under the evaluation about shifting from wood stoves to gas ones so to protect the forest from deforestation. After many elders assemblies we came to understand that chopping wood had a sort of spiritual meaning as a way of relationship with their environment.

We abandon the project of gas stove even when the business interests were affected. The struggle was hard. We join forces to confront this issue and finally we come to a kind of environmental management for the fores so to keep the deep tradition of chopping wood.

Interestingly, in the Mayan culture, the ones who chop wood are the women.

12-28-2011, 10:36 PM	#40
SAUNDERSAN Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 371 Senior Member	I liked this ones... Chop wood and carry water... I'm keeping it simple... Meditate... Be kind... Read something about Buddhism... This will do for now plwk's one, remembers me a huge task about studying the deep meaning of chopping wood at a Mayan village. We were under the evaluation about shifting from wood stoves to gas ones so to protect the forest from deforestation. After many elders assemblies we came to understand that chopping wood had a sort of spiritual meaning as a way of relationship with their environment. We abandon the project of gas stove even when the business interests were affected. The struggle was hard. We join forces to confront this issue and finally we come to a kind of environmental management for the fores so to keep the deep tradition of chopping wood. Interestingly, in the Mayan culture, the ones who chop wood are the women.
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