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This short film is about what I believe to be important in regards to ecology.
My family and I live in Latvia, a beautiful country in Northern Europe,
where we have blue sea and many green forests.
We enjoy spending time outdoors, playing at the seashore,
sitting in grass, climbing up trees, and breathing fresh air...
When I look at my children, I feel that to them this life is a wonderful mystery.
As we become adults, we learn to define our experiences.
And eventually, the magical feeling of present moment becomes clouded with our definitions,
some of which are negative and bring misery to our lives.
Most of us remain unaware that the reality we experience is constructed within our mind.
We blame each other for our misery and instead of eliminating our negative mind-set, we supress it.
Suppression amplifies our misery, causing stress.
We seek relief from our stress in food, alcohol, cigarettes, clubs, television, internet,
conflicts, quarrels, constant thinking and preoccupation –
anything that keeps our attention away from the emotional imbalance we are carrying within ourselves.
While we run away from unpleasant experiences we become addicted to our desires.
It’s our addictions paired with lack of appropriate education
that I see to be the root of all ecological problems we face today.
If we become slaves of our desires, while lacking education about humanistic values,
we start to consume more than we need, not caring about the impact it has on this world.
In endless chase to feed our insatiable appetites and create more profit in less time
we poison our food, water, air and cloth.
Our mind, overwhelmed with false needs and hostile ideas, becomes our enemy.
Good news is that we can turn this enemy into our friend,
if we learn to be more aware of our mind, instead of reacting to every thought it produces.
The awareness can be trained by practicing meditation.
There is a simple technique called Vipassana.
One way to practice it is to sit quietly in still posture
and learn to witness our thoughts and bodily sensations without reacting to them.
If there is a pleasant sensation, we are not trying to prolong it.
If there is pain, we are not trying to get rid of it.
As our dependencies from pain and pleasure decrease,
we become more capable to make wholesome decisions.
The less we are addicted, the more beneficial is our thinking.
The food we eat has noticeable influence on our clarity and overall well-being.
Eliminating meat from our diet and switching from cooked meals to raw fruits,
vegetables, nuts, seeds, greens and plain water, increases our energy and health.
Raw food and plain water do not cause dependency,
as oppose to cooked meals, salt, sugar and unnatural or alcoholic beverages.
I recommend you to evaluate Mucusless Diet Healing System by Arnold Ehret.
Turning away from meat or at least reducing its consumption to minimum
is a crucial step from ecological and ethical points of view.
You can read more about it on “Stop Eating Meat and Heal Our Planet” petition site.
I read it takes 20 to 40 days for a new lifestyle to become a habit.
So it may seem tough to break an addiction,
but after those 20-40 days you’ll appreciate that you did it.
We teach our kids that everything in this world is alive.
We teach them to respect and care for the nature.
In such way we support their feeling of unity with this world.
We dream that one day the art of harmonious living
will be taught in schools by true masters of this art.
Until then we count on ourselves and educate our children to our best humanistic knowledge.
We encourage everyone to develop positive mind-set
and feeling of unity with this beautiful world.
And this is our message as of May 16th, 2012.