[P2P-F] Fwd: Where is Paradise?

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August 13th, 2019
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Where is Paradise?
Dear Reader,

Is Paradise located outside or inside you? Maybe there is a special place
you have been that feels like Paradise: your ancestral home, or an ancient
forest. Or maybe you have touched Paradise in silence, or a lover’s caress.

Imagine a hundred people whose minds are full of hatred and anger coming
together. They will create hell on Earth for each other and other beings.
How about one thousand people! But when a thousand people come together in
love, joy, and inclusiveness, they can create a community that is like a
Paradise. Our minds form the basis of our hell or heaven. Of course, real
conditions of injustice and suffering exist, but when our hearts and minds
are anchored in the true nature of being, we have deeper insight into the
sources of injustice, and more energy to transform our conditions.

Here are collected some thoughts and resources to inspire you this week.
Where is Paradise for you? Is it beyond this earthly realm? Or is it here
and now in the crucible of community and change? Where two or more
gather…may we make a small Paradise.
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*August Featured Poet | Nanette Lashuay*
*Nanette Lashuay has been a community health organizer for low-wage workers
in East Oakland, an anti-war activist, and an assistant professor at the
University of California, San Francisco. After several volunteer stints as
a wildlife researcher in Kenya, she moved to Africa in 2007 and now lives
in Zanzibar, Tanzania with her husband and two lovely stepdaughters whose
native land it is. Her fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review.*

An Unexpected Heaven

I once went nose-to-nose with a snake, a red-specked garter
basking on the path, too content—it seemed—to flee at my approach.

I seized the invitation, bellied-down, and inched over on my elbows
to contemplate the rightness of a snake’s life.

Up close, silicate particles glitter star-size in the dust, many shining
shades of green compose the grass. Skimming shadows make me

quiver. Hot sun above, cool earth below bring enlightenment. I long
to slither, leaving swoops of joy and arcs of S’s for birds to chirp.

>From this squat view, human concepts crumble. Meadow dissolves
to forest, a wild tangling of grasses hiding alien-eyed morsels who

flee my darting tongue. Mountains, wrinkling the planet’s flesh,
exist no longer. I call my world endless rock, tilting upward.

What an unexpected heaven this—of waves dashed to particles
of impossible luminosity, of bird song brimming from the primal chaos,

of consciousness free to sidle snakewise into every world we know—
and those we don’t yet.
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*Paradise Lost, The Sequel | Nature's Tipping Point*
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Paul Gauguin, Le Paradis Perdu, ca.1890
“…The problem we face today is that human existence, so far, has been
limited to what we call the ‘values of subsistence’ where we choose to
either compete or cooperate, but with little awareness of planetary
effects. We are not fully conscious of the fact that we are an inseparable
part of Earth’s ecology. We rarely think in terms of the world being a
single organism with its own collective mind, or that we are all part of a
compassionate, dynamic whole, inseparable from nature. On our journey so
far, we’ve identified our problems of existence to be primarily of social,
political, or technological in nature. As we exhausted the values of each
system, we successfully sought solutions from a higher-level system
throughout the Holocene with little regard to problems of existence that
lay outside our subsistence worldview, and therein lays humanity’s biggest
challenge.”
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Liberation on the Land*
By Leah Penniman
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in* Kosmos Quarterly.*

*Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land
is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality. —Malcolm X*
“…I realized that during all those years of seeing images of only white
people as the stewards of the land, only white people as organic farmers,
only white people in conversations about sustainability, the only
consistent story I’d seen or been told about Black people and the land was
about slavery and sharecropping, about coercion and brutality and misery
and sorrow. And yet here was an entire history, blooming into our present,
in which Black people’s expertise and love of the land and one another was
evident. When we as Black people are bombarded with messages that our only
place of belonging on land is as slaves, performing dangerous and
backbreaking menial labor, to learn of our true and noble history as
farmers and ecological stewards is deeply healing.”
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