Polls progress: Phase 5, 6 and 7 campaigns continue. We hear lots of flows. Free transport. Or costs of transport. Fee for voting.
We have 80% India with mobiles. 50% India with internet use. Digital is part of our daily life – apps, webs, and social media – water, food, groceries, travel, goods deliveries, entertainment, music, news, payments-receipts, reading, learning, language translations, messaging, word meanings, dashboards, tracking, geo-tagging, geo-fencing, satellite data, technical support, research, surveys et al.
Can we coexist with or in nature in harmony? Living, farming. With oceans, seas, rivers, streams, forests, lakes, et al. Really? In urbanization? Can we appreciate, recognize and safeguard the rights of nature, living beings, and local communities? When planet earth has exceeded 6/9 planetary boundaries – spaces for humanity to operate safely. Earth is hotting up: 100 billion work hours are being lost to heat, for example.
Can we turn the direction backwards to virtuous, regenerative living, farming? Can we maximize the photo-harvesting by 365-day, multi-layered multiple cropping on the arable land of the country? 60% of Indian landmass is arable. Can we seed natural farming everywhere in this world, duly customized, adapted, in the next decade or two? Can we improve human-animal-plant-soil-planet health? Can we postpone the ‘extinction’ by a century or two? Can we cool the planet? Can we improve the climate resilience of the crops? Can we improve the food-nutrition-health security of the 10 billion people? Can we improve the well-being of the farm, farmworker, farm service provider families and value-chain players?
Can we discuss, argue, dialogue, question-respond, inquire, and analyse? Can we observe, experiment, try, and pilot? Can we listen to the ground? Questions, reactions. We agree plants have life, emotions, feelings and so on. Now, intense experiments are confirming: Leaves pick up the sounds of chewing caterpillars and mount appropriate chemical defences; Flowers sweeten their nectar when they sense pollinators flying by; Flowers and bees sense one another through ever shifting electrical fields; plants seem to use memory to adjust their growth and even minute-by-minute presentation of pollen. Plants demonstrate intelligence. Plants sense, remember and make decisions throughout their bodies. Plants are in constant touch with their allies – microbes. Can we see, appreciate and work based on this appreciation? Can we?
Only wishful thinking, however deep and intense, does not deliver. It does not matter. Thoughts have to flow into Actions, and Actions have to flow into Results. Then, this flow architecture causes incredible performance. Can we build this architecture, infrastructure, and matrix up?
Human brain is the most sophisticated object, instrument, and tool in the universe. Billions of connections, circuits, and flows. Single, dual, and multiple inter-cell connections. Neural, blood. Can we understand it fully? One brain. Emotions, Intelligence, Perceptions, Memory, Behaviour, Habits, Thoughts, Instincts, Temptations, and Insights. Can we understand the microbiomes fully? Can we understand the universe fully?
Metabolism dysfunction causes death 93% of times. Health is a functioning metabolism. Low fasting sugar; low cholesterol; lower triglycerides; normal blood pressure; and waistline. Diet, exercise, and happiness – a choice, a state of mind, a sense of purpose, and strong relationships – take/keep us there. Gratitude, mindfulness, generosity, kindness, forgiving, and usefulness are the tools for a ‘happiness’ journey. Can we be hybrid happiness entrepreneurs, mentors, and leaders? We are entrepreneurs by birth, by default. We lose this niche as we grow old. Can we have a ‘happiness’ entrepreneurial portfolio – risky but cross-supportive items, teams?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flow towards an end. For flow in N? In aanandayoga for 7L.
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