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"When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the effort to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized."
To the extent that trees deviate from their natural form, pruning and insect extermination become necessary; to the extent that human society separates itself from a life close to nature, schooling becomes necessary. In nature, formal schooling has no function.
We only need it is its made necessary
violent crying tantrums, and in the old days children
If we do have a food crisis it will not be caused by the insufficiency of nature's productive power, but by the extravagance of human desire.
Extravagance of desire is the fundamental cause which has led the world into its present predicament.
The more the farmer increases the scale of his operation, the more his body and spirit are dissipated and the further he falls away from a spiritually satisfying life. A life of small-scale farming may appear to be primitive, but in living such a life, it becomes possible to contemplate the Great Way.* I believe that if one fathoms deeply one's own neighborhood and the everyday world in which he lives, the greatest of worlds will be revealed.
"Whether autumn will bring wind or rain, I cannot know, but today I will be working in the fields." Those are the words of an old country song. They express the truth of farming as a way of life. No matter how the harvest will turn out, whether or not there will be enough food to eat, in simply sowing seed and caring tenderly for plants under nature's guidance there is joy.
stroke school. It goes nowhere and seeks no victory. Putting "doing nothing" into practice is the one thing the farmer should strive to accomplish.
believe that Gandhi's way, a methodless method, acting with a non-winning, non-opposing state of mind, is akin to natural farming.
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perf...
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There is no other way than through the destruction of the ego, casting aside the thought that humans exist apart from heaven and earth.
