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The Guru Goes Simple Style.
The Guru is once again shocked by what women do.
July 21st, 2004
By Christopher Herz
The Health Guru / eCureMe LIFE
Because your Guru does not like to spend his entire days locked up inside a cave
composing his chronicles and documentations on the everyday goings on in the world,
I teach ESL at nights so that I can constantly be in contact with people from other
countries who open up my mind by sharing their cultures with me.
As a lesson to some of the more advanced classes, I drop poetry and some literature
on them to show them the beat, rhythm, and culture of the English language.
Somehow, we started speaking about Henry David Thoreau. For those of you who were
sleeping in your High School or college English classes, Thoreau was a revolutionary
old school American writer who believed that everything should be taken down it
its simplest form and explored so that you could get the full flavor out of life.
He believed that chewing life down to the bone was not enough. There was a need
to "Suck the marrow" out of it.
In order to break life down to its simplest form, he built himself a cabin on
Walden Pond and reflected on nature for a few years, completely withdrawing himself
from the mainstream world.
While I always thought it was a great thing to have the time to get away and be by
yourself, manyof my students said that he was a selfish man because he
couldn’t iteract with other humans. Your Guru took a step back for minute
and thought about it. It’s amazing how people from other cultures can look
on yours with a completely different look. After thinking about it for a quick
minute, I thought that he was not selfish, just American. After all, America is
all about getting yours, right?
Well, if you’re out to get yours, make sure you realize what it is you are
getting. I thought that since the summer time is upon us now, I would drop some
Thoreau quotes on you to dwell on throughout your days. After you read them, go
to stream, river ocean and think about these words as the water moves with the
wind.
"I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent
and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the most
melancholy man."
So then, when things get to crazy in the big lights and brought city, take alook
a pinecone or flower or even a blade of grass, and you can see the sublimness of
life-which just might cause the madness of the city to melt away.
Want more? Check this out:
"You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet
crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a
sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, or else you will live in
vain."
My man H.D Thoreau is deeper than the California budget deficit.
Even back in the 1800’s, H.D.T could see the approaching monster of the
industrial revolution, and he knew that the complicated series of machines and
dehumanization would take people away from the essential realness of life. When
he speaks about taking the nutriment out of a sand heap, he means that there is
wonder even in the most mundane thing.
Look closely people. Check out the sidewalk. Each day you take steps on those
slabs of concrete, what do you see? Nothing? Look closer. Stoop down. In between
the cracks, there may be a weed growing, or a group of ants spending their day
carrying a few crumbs back to the village for the entire crew-perhaps even a lady
bug praying that it’s bright red color will not prevent it for enjoying a
piece of shade in the canyon of the side walk.
The point is that there are miracleS everywhere in your everyday life, and if you
take time to notice them, the rewards dropped on you in the hustling world we live
in now will be tenfold.
Look deep into things and don’t just stop on the first glance. Entire
universes can exist in the smallest pieces of matter.
If you’d like to check out more Thoreau, check out WALDEN. If you don’t
want a deep read and just want to peep some of his quotes, check out THOREAU ON MAN
AND NATURE.
Live life to it’s fullest by understand the basic workings of nature can bring
you the happiness you seek.
Peace.
H.G.
The Health Guru - Christopher Herz
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