Re: Meditation, ‘yogic agriculture’ - BKWSU
Posted: 14 Sep 2019
Pink Panther wrote:the appreciation of the gift of life (why it's called ’the present’ ) ... All the rest is fluff, ribbons and wrappings.
And, yes folks, the big thing about the present being a present is ... you cannot take it back to the shop and get a refund for your money, so you need to appreciate it in the moment.
Meanwhile, an Indian rice farmer uses controversial method for record crop. A Tamil Nadu farmer produces a bumper crop four times larger than average using system of rice intensification. No cult beliefs required.
It is called the SRI Method.
I wonder who is winning the rice growing wars?
Here's where it offers a challenge for the BKs ... if the BKs are pursuing this yogic farming for the sake of the farmers, and the SRI method is producing better results than theirs, will they drop theirs and adopt and promote SRI?
Or, at worst, add theirs on top of SRI to see if it can make a reproducible difference? Apparently, farmers using SRI in Nepal have consistently doubled their yields.
At that point it gets a bit silly. SRI was developed by a French Jesuit priest Henri de Laulanié. Does rice therefore respond better to Christianity than BKism?
I wonder if BKs in the West have approached their Ministry of Agricultures and Farmers Unions to tell them about the good news?