Newsletter Week 37








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Plukrijp.be vzw – Upside-down the good newsletter
2021 – week 37

Upside down = instead of announcing what we plan to do
(& most often find out we do not need to do), we relate what we really did

Building communities of trust is fundamental
to healing our collective wound.
At Plukrijp, we offer spaces of transparency and solidarity.
The community allows people to encounter each other
in truth and so develop trust.

We do the garden for YOU
Plukrijp functions on your frequent visits & harvests. Take along for friends & neighbours, this way we recreate real networks between us all, breaking down the illusory restrictions that now still separate many of us from our fellow man = UBUNTU.
The updated list of vegetables & fruit that can be harvested this week is available on our website under the heading “Current Harvest” :
https://plukrijp.be/en/op-dit-moment-te-oogsten

If you want to volunteer at Plukrijp,
feel free to send your request to

martine.plukrijp.be@gmail.com

This week @ Plukrijp

We did:

We made a design for a future CSA garden near Vilvoorde
 

At Hei, we scratched, weeded and planted garlic, onions, and leek.

 

We harvested tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, carrots, leek, celery, Swiss chard, mosterd, spinach, calendula, thyme, rosemary, sage, rose flowers, rosehips…

 

We sorted, cleaned, sharpened, and greased all the tools to keep them prim and proper. It has never looked so beautiful.

 

We cleaned out the well. Thank you very much Peter for jumping in!
 

We did a major organizational job; resorting all the stored stuff from tunnel 6, plastic house, and the hangar, taking out the junk and restructuring tunnel 6 and the hangar.

We fixed many of the bikes here. Thank you Carlos for your very beneficial and dramatic entrance!
 

We cooked lots of crumbles. Thank you Joshka for your creative sugarless inventions!

 

We humbly learnt the workings of an efficient (and tasty) kitchen. Thank you Martine!

 

We are discovering many of the hidden gems of old cassettes and records from Frank’s collection. Thank you Frank for sharing with us such inspiring music.

We added many books to our library

Interesting Movies & Documentaries

Carpe Diem – Enthusiasm in Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg43tSTb7Wk

Enthusiasm is an important part of life.

People can’t get anything done

unless they are enthusiastic about it.

A good life is your choice,

you make it what it is.

If you don’t have a dream

how can a dream come true?

Life After

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POw_f0zrTYM

You are the sum total of that love

that you generated in the world,

and that came back

because you gave it so freely.

Glenn Mullin – Blavatsky’s Tibet:

Power Places and their Spiritual Mysteries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUsKL7nxW4

Inspiring Links

Don Juan Matus – The 4 natural enemies of a man of knowledge

https://youtu.be/Kh1uoWKords

The Subconscious Mind:

A Wonderful Servant, A Horrible Master

(Full Audiobook)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO47wBwkICQ

Inspiring Books

As World War II raged around him, F.A. Hayek wrote and published The Road to Serfdom, which became a touchstone of the campaign to preserve personal and economic freedoms. The book argues that Western democracies’ attraction to socialism will take them down a path to authoritarian dictatorships like those in Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. Government planning of economies, Hayek declares, must result in arbitrary and unfair edicts, as well as a loss of individual liberty.

A modernist work of profound wisdom that continues to enthrall readers with its subtle blend of Eastern mysticism and Western culture.

 

At first sight Harry Haller seems a respectable, educated man. In reality he is the Steppenwolf: wild, strange, alienated from society and repulsed by the modern age. But as he is drawn into a series of dreamlike and sometimes savage encounters – accompanied by, among others, Mozart, Goethe and the bewitching Hermione – the misanthropic Haller discovers a higher truth, and the possibility of happiness.

This blistering portrayal of a man who feels himself to be half-human and half-wolf was the bible of the 1960s counterculture, capturing the mood of a disaffected generation, and remains a haunting story of estrangement and redemption.

Wisdom

Self-knowledge might be the most difficult of life’s rewards —
the hardest to earn and the hardest to bear.
To know yourself is to know that you are not an unassailable fixity amid
the entropic storm of the universe but a set of fragilities in constant flux.
To know yourself is to know that you are not invulnerable.

Inspiring Text

A quote from Carlos Castaneda’s
“The teachings of Don Juan”

 

A man of knowledge is one who has followed truthfully the hardships of learning, a man who has, without rushing or without faltering, gone as far as he can in unraveling the secrets of power and knowledge. To become a man of knowledge one must challenge and defeat his four natural enemies.

 

When a man starts to learn, he is never clear about his objectives. His purpose is faulty; his intent is vague. He hopes for rewards that will never materialize for he knows nothing of the hardships of learning.

 

He slowly begins to learn–bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts soon clash. What he learns is never what he pictured, or imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, and the fear the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly. His purpose becomes a battlefield.

 

And thus he has stumbled upon the first of his natural enemies: fear! A terrible enemy–treacherous, and difficult to overcome. It remains concealed at every turn of the way, prowling, waiting. And if the man, terrified in its presence, runs away, his enemy will have put an end to his quest and he will never learn. He will never become a man of knowledge. He will perhaps be a bully, or a harmless, scared man; at any rate, he will be a defeated man. His first enemy will have put an end to his cravings.

It is not possible for a man to abandon himself to fear for years, then finally conquer it. If he gives in to fear he will never conquer it, because he will shy away from learning and never try again. But if he tries to learn for years in the midst of his fear, he will eventually conquer it because he will never have really abandoned himself to it.

 

Therefore he must not run away. He must defy his fear, and in spite of it he must take the next step in learning, and the next, and the next. He must be fully afraid, and yet he must not stop. That is the rule! And a moment will come when his first enemy retreats. The man begins to feel sure of himself. His intent becomes stronger. Learning is no longer a terrifying task.

 

When this joyful moment comes, the man can say without hesitation that he has defeated his first natural enemy. It happens little by little, and yet the fear is vanquished suddenly and fast. Once a man has vanquished fear, he is free from it for the rest of his life because, instead of fear, he has acquired clarity–a clarity of mind which erases fear. By then a man knows his desires; he knows how to satisfy those desires. He can anticipate the new steps of learning and a sharp clarity surrounds everything. The man feels that nothing is concealed.

 

And thus he has encountered his second enemy: Clarity! That clarity of mind, which is so hard to obtain, dispels fear, but also blinds. It forces the man never to doubt himself. It gives him the assurance he can do anything he pleases, for he sees clearly into everything. And he is courageous because he is clear, and he stops at nothing because he is clear. But all that is a mistake; it is like something incomplete. If the man yields to this make-believe power, he has succumbed to his second enemy and will be patient when he should rush. And he will fumble with learning until he winds up incapable of learning anything more. His second enemy has just stopped him cold from trying to become a man of knowledge. Instead, the man may turn into a buoyant warrior, or a clown. Yet the clarity for which he has paid so dearly will never change to darkness and fear again. He will be clear as long as he lives, but he will no longer learn, or yearn for, anything.

 

He must do what he did with fear: he must defy his clarity and use it only to see, and wait patiently and measure carefully before taking new steps; he must think, above all, that his clarity is almost a mistake. And a moment will come when he will understand that his clarity was only a point before his eyes. And thus he will have overcome his second enemy, and will arrive at a position where nothing can harm him anymore. This will not be a mistake. It will not be only a point before his eyes. It will be true power.

 

He will know at this point that the power he has been pursuing for so long is finally his. He can do with it whatever he pleases. His ally is at his command. His wish is the rule. He sees all that is around him. But he has also come across his third enemy: Power!

 

Power is the strongest of all enemies. And naturally the easiest thing to do is to give in; after all, the man is truly invincible. He commands; he begins by taking calculated risks, and ends in making rules, because he is a master.

 

A man at this stage hardly notices his third enemy closing in on him. And suddenly, without knowing, he will certainly have lost the battle. His enemy will have turned him into a cruel, capricious man, but he will never lose his clarity or his power.

 

A man who is defeated by power dies without really knowing how to handle it. Power is only a burden upon his fate. Such a man has no command over himself, and cannot tell when or how to use his power.

 

Once one of these enemies overpowers a man there is nothing he can do. It is not possible, for instance, that a man who is defeated by power may see his error and mend his ways. Once a man gives in he is through. If, however, he is temporarily blinded by power, and then refuses it, his battle is still on. That means he is still trying to become a man of knowledge. A man is defeated only when he no longer tries, and abandons himself.

 

He has to come to realize that the power he has seemingly conquered is in reality never his. He must keep himself in line at all times, handling carefully and faithfully all that he has learned. If he can see that clarity and power, without his control over himself, are worse than mistakes, he will reach a point where everything is held in check. He will know then when and how to use his power. And thus he will have defeated his third enemy.

 

The man will be, by then, at the end of his journey of learning, and almost without warning he will come upon the last of his enemies: Old age! This enemy is the cruelest of all, the one he won’t be able to defeat completely, but only fight away.

 

This is the time when a man has no more fears, no more impatient clarity of mind–a time when all his power is in check, but also the time when he has an unyielding desire to rest. If he gives in totally to his desire to lie down and forget, if he soothes himself in tiredness, he will have lost his last round, and his enemy will cut him down into a feeble old creature. His desire to retreat will overrule all his clarity, his power, and his knowledge.

But if the man sloughs off his tiredness, and lives his fate though, he can then be called a man of knowledge, if only for the brief moment when he succeeds in fighting off his last, invincible enemy. That moment of clarity, power, and knowledge is enough.

Laughing Buddha

https://www.viewofchina.com/laughing-buddha/

“Laugh, with open mouth, until eternity;

Sit, with exposed tummy, at total ease.”

 

“The belly is broad enough to melt any bitterness;
The laugh is gaily enough to dissolve all sadness.”

Inspiring Music

The Dubliners – “Thirty Foot Trailer”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uq30FeeLTM

The old ways are changing you cannot deny

The day of the traveler’s over

There’s nowhere to gang and there’s nowhere to bide

So farewell to the life of the rover

 

Goodbye to the tent and the old caravan

To the tinker, the rover, the traveling man

And goodbye tae the thirty foot trailer

Farewell tae the cant and the traveling tongue

Farewell tae the Romany talking

The buying, the selling, the old fortune telling

The knock on the door and the hawking

 

You got to move fast to keep up with the times

For these days a man cannot dander

There’s a bylaw to say you maun be on your way

And another to say ye can’t wander

 

Farewell to the blossom and besoms of broom

Farewell tae the creels and the baskets

The folk of today would far rather pay

For a thing that is made oot o plastic

The old ways are passing and soon will be gone

And progress is aye a big factor

Its sent to afflict us and when they evict us

They tow us away wi a tractor

 

Farewell tae the pony, the cob, and the mare

The reins and the harness are idle

You don’t need a strap when you’re breaking up scrap

So farewell tae the bit and the bridle

 

Farewell tae the fields where we’ve sweated and toiled

At pulling and hauling and lifting

They’ll soon have machines and the traveling queens

And their menfolk had better be shifting

Inspiring Images

Matthew Scott Donnelly – Pathless Path To Nirvana

Nearly 2 years lost to populist fear-mongering




Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”

– Jonathan Swift

Humor (?)

Passive Aggressive Relationship Techniques

– Ultra Spiritual Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vnKPdMXIdo

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