RE: Garlic and Vinegar Recipies.

[Michael Dean <mikedean.com@altavista.com>]

Dear "Philcorbet"

I could not open your e mail, please would you forward that e mail again concerning garlic and vinegar recipies.

All the best Mike.

On Tue, 27 November 2001, permed@nor.com.au wrote:

> 
> > when I turn to the next log to cut I find the saw already in
> >my hand exactly at the place where the cut is to be made
> >This is not magic.  It is the way we act in the world, our
> >'being-in-the-world'
> Maybe this is when the saw becomes part of you or extension of self (or 
> is that you have become part of the saw) - the conscious separation 
> between person and saw/tool has blurred. This 'being' involves a very 
> different 'knowing' to purely intellectual knowledge arising from 
> scientific impartiality which may describe the kind of saw, the metals 
> and processes in creating the blade, the size and angle of the teeth etc. 
> The state of 'being' with the saw arises from the familarity of 'doing', 
> becoming a willing participant. When we stop thinking I-am-me and 
> that-is-saw that the work flows naturally/effortlessly and is no longer 
> 'working the saw' but simply 'being' - at this point are saw, person and 
> log together in a state of simply being?
> 
> This ability to blur the boundaries that separate us and 
> 'become-one-with' activates and opens our perceptions/realisation of the 
> intuitive, of all the senses, of the emptiness and of the whole. I do 
> lots of exercises in my courses to help people switch off the 'monkey 
> chatterbox' of the right brain detached analytical observer with its 
> incessant running commentary which drowns out all the 'other' information 
> we are receiving but not perceiving.
> How can we truly embrace holistic design and the essence of nature itself 
> if we never allow ourselves to become wholly part of it, if we just get 
> stuck on description and analysis, quantification and justification. 
> 
> >"we work with what is substantial
> >but the emptiness is what we use"
> >
> >The focus is really about relationships rather than elements/objects. Isn't 
> this what
> >the Mystics throughout time have taught?
> 
> Can we embrace the whole if we cannot accept the hole?
> The sacredness of the Celtic cauldron lies in the emptiness - the 
> potential of the emptiness is limitless.
> It is in the design of the invisible towards which the art of 
> permaculture strives. 
> 
> Robyn 
> (I'm enjoying this thread & out of control - just wish my workload wasn't 
> so massive so I could participate more)
> 
> 
> Djanbung Gardens Permaculture Education Centre
> home to: 
> Permaculture Education
> ERDA Institute Trust
> Nimbin Eco-Village Project Office
> Robyn Francis - permaculture designer & educator
> PO Box 379, Nimbin NSW 2480 Australia
> Ph 02-6689 1755 Fax 02-6689 1225
> permed@nor.com.au  www.earthwise.org.au
> 
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