We are now 141 Crore people in India.
Presidential campaigns progress. Draupadi is clearly ahead. Vice-Presidential candidates are getting announced. BJP candidate is clearly ahead. We have to wait and see how Venkaiah’s services will be used. ‘Political atmosphere is getting charged for state elections in several states in a year. Related transitions and turbulences. AIADMK truce breaks. EPS-OPS fight is ON. OPS has been expelled.
Srilanka is getting ready for a new dispensation. People could effectively force out Rajapakses. The Prime Minister has gone. President has gone. He left the country too. A new president is getting elected by Parliament. Till such time, an ad hoc President, Ranil Wickremesinghe is in charge. Hope new dispensation to come will take Srilanka towards ‘normal’ to begin with, and to good governance, peace and prosperity in due course.
UK is getting ready for a new Prime Minister to be elected.
Rains came late but with high vigour. Vigour of 3 decades ago. Hyderabad and Telangana, Maharashtra, Gujarat, et al affected intensely. Government has to declare a week of rain holidays. Godavari basin is in spate. Bhadrachalam is fully drowned.
Indo-German Global Academy for Agroecology Research and Learning (IGGAARL, Academy) is launched. 7 July 2022 at Pulivendula. It is expected to transform itself into a world-class Natural Farming University in the next 1-2 years. It builds NF farmer researchers/scientists, professionals, learning facilitators for Andhra Pradesh and outside, besides it being a natural farming participatory research centre with hubs, and grassroots learning/research landscapes, a global knowledge repository and a learning platform. NF annual congress, journal(s) and national/global research collaborations help in its achieving‘ excellence’ and ‘significance’.
The window is small. We need to reform fast. We need to localize our food systems as quickly as possible. We need to reduce the food miles dramatically and quickly. We need to restore biodiversity. We need to have more forests everywhere. Natural farms, natural forests. We need to pay the farmers for natural farming and climate resilience work and caring for us, all of us. Carbon credits, eco-credits, SDG credits. We need to give a fair share in the value-chains to farmers, and farmer gods. We need policies, ecosystems, architecture, and systems to support this; we need consumers making demands and encouraging; we need changes in our behaviour for natural living and farming; we need movement(s) for this paradigm to scale, and not lapse back. We all need to let this happen. No other way.
We hear: Meditation helps us to deal better with stress, anxiety, fear, negative thoughts, loneliness, anger, regret, etc.
It improves concentration, creativity, memory, emotional intelligence and importantly wellbeing. Is this true? How does it do? Through meditation, we learn to zoom in, zoom out, pause and change channels. In the heart, in the mind, and in life.
Are not we emotional beings? Social beings? Intellectual beings? Are we playing the intellectual card more than what our lives require really? Are we intellectualizing everything and de-emotionalizing most things? Are we taking emotions to trivial levels? Are we here to live and experience life or to understand it? Should not we be living and loving life? Are we throwing/taking away the joy of life? Are we not having a compulsive need to be social? Even if we are complete introverts. Therefore, are we not coexisters? Are we not seeking to be a community of sharing? Sharing hope, faith, promise, love, emotions, thoughts, dreams, fantasies, fears, problems, and challenges. Can we be friends? With others. With the Universe. With ourselves. In the 6000 thoughts a day, we have, can we converse with ourselves? Chat, whisper, argue, explain, fight. Can we stretch ourselves, body, heart, mind and soul? Can we discover ourselves? Can we discover our ways? Solutions?
Yes, we can. Being a community. Being a loving useful coexister. Being in-nature. In the flow of N. For 7L.
Join us in the stretch yoga of relentless loving useful coexistence co-living co-action – anubhootiyoga for 7L.
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