Today I Went Into Nature

[Butters]

I'm a city boy and I hadn't been in real nature in a long time. Today I went out in REAL nature here in Portugal. Not only was it breathtaking but I ended up just sitting there, feeling connected to the earth. The nature felt very familiar, peaceful and different from the city. I would say this is something I craved for a long time but didn't know. 

Highly recommended. 

(no idea what the skeleton is from, maybe wild boar)

Edited March 13 by Butters

[Ramasta9]

Nature is not a place we visit, Nature is home. We have forgotten, and the more time we spend in nature, we remember more and more, how sick and artificial we've become, how unaware and unconscious we've become, how busy, lost and confused in our minds we've become. Yes meditation and other practices help, but being in nature is far more powerful, effective and effortless, and becomes the entire meditation in itself.

You realize that you've been offline in the city in an "artificial online world" not realize the real "online" is out there in the natural world.

Then when you return you feel like "wtf is this shit" why am I even here?

My dream home would be something like this, so its not a 2 hour drive to the mountains but a simple walk outside.

[Butters]

@Ramasta9 beautiful! I could live in one of them too for sure. 

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

20 hours ago, Ramasta9 said:

Nature is not a place we visit, Nature is home. We have forgotten, and the more time we spend in nature, we remember more and more, how sick and artificial we've become, how unaware and unconscious we've become, how busy, lost and confused in our minds we've become. Yes meditation and other practices help, but being in nature is far more powerful, effective and effortless, and becomes the entire meditation in itself.

You realize that you've been offline in the city in an "artificial online world" not realize the real "online" is out there in the natural world.

Then when you return you feel like "wtf is this shit" why am I even here?

My dream home would be something like this, so its not a 2 hour drive to the mountains but a simple walk outside.

Yeah that'd be definitely nice to be able to live like that, fantasy is always significantly romanticized compared to reality though, which sucks. You'll lack the convenience, the people, maybe you'll get used to that place over time despite how perfect it seems at first, etc. It's like, it's good but it's NEVER quite it, reasons behind that are nearly philosophical but I digress. Maybe the best thing is to have one in the city and one in a more secluded natural habitat such as this; then you can compare the 2 as you live in both of them as often as you wish. I'd say I'm half-way towards realizing that

[Ramasta9]

3 hours ago, NewKidOnTheBlock said:

Yeah that'd be definitely nice to be able to live like that, fantasy is always significantly romanticized compared to reality though, which sucks. You'll lack the convenience, the people, maybe you'll get used to that place over time despite how perfect it seems at first, etc. It's like, it's good but it's NEVER quite it, reasons behind that are nearly philosophical but I digress. Maybe the best thing is to have one in the city and one in a more secluded natural habitat such as this; then you can compare the 2 as you live in both of them as often as you wish. I'd say I'm half-way towards realizing that

Its not really fantasy if you have experience. I've lived like that in others houses situated in such environments. You still can have everything you need (stores, towns, people nearby) maybe just a little further than usual, and especially if you grow your own food and have enough land and resources, you don't need anything else. Its only shallow people who need the modern things we need today to be honest, cause we need bare minimum to enjoy life.

I've met many people who live in the bush(off-grid) in teepees and are some of the happiest / simplest people I know and have everything they need. I personally find great peace being totally alone in nature. A tiny home would suffice for me.

I've lived in the city most of my life life, almost everything about it makes me repulsive. Its artificial, UN-natural, disease-ridden environment. No soul can thrive in the city, full of toxic food, air, water, people and psychological-illness from an overstimulated / over-stressed life. People are completely different in both their health, spirituality and behaviour as you travel further from the city, and this is a pattern i noticed over and over again. We need more nature than we realize, in fact, we are so sick and do not even realize it because we have become so well adjusted to this artificial life and environment.

I've spent a lot of time in nature, and the more i spend time in nature living more naturally, the more i realize how sick and twisted everyone living in the city is. They may appear normal, but far from natural and healthy, like bio-robotic drug-addicts fiending for their next fix or pay, and you often can only notice this when you move to a more natural environment at least temporary to directly experience the contrast. Those who don't move never notice their chains.

As Krishnamurti said: It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

I think the real fantasy is the life we are living today in modern environments we call "normal", eventually you see through it and realize how distorted and lacking of life and richness it is. Its also a trap, its designed to keep you here and afraid to venture out.

 

Edited Sunday at 12:34 AM by Ramasta9