{"id":2412,"date":"2013-09-30T08:49:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T07:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2013-10-01T20:41:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:41:11","slug":"water-essential-spirit-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/water-essential-spirit-place\/","title":{"rendered":"WATER:  THE ESSENTIAL SPIRIT OF PLACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-size: medium\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152628\/emoto-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2424 aligncenter\" alt=\"emoto water\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152628\/emoto-water.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152628\/emoto-water.jpg 160w, https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152628\/emoto-water-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Deep inside us we all know that the challenges we face as individuals and as a community are not merely of an economical and technological nature. They concern our basic values and our fundamental conception of what it means to be human. This is the story of the substance that makes life on earth possible; water. Water has many unique and mysterious physical qualities and there is no other substance quite like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><!--more-->Water is everything to us \u2013 we would die quickly without a clean potable supply of it. Sustainability will mean nothing if we do not care for water. Water is essential to the transmission and dissemination of all elements (hormones, chemical messengers and nutrients) in our bodies and the eventual elimination of residues and toxins. Water is essential to our health and polluted water can cause great distress, chronic illness and death each year to millions of people throughout the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The importance of water becomes most apparent when it is absent. What is most missed and treasured in a desert? Anyone would say it is water and yet modern society does not care for it. The demand for \u2018safe\u2019 water is constantly increasing, whether for consumption or recreation. Science and engineering are essential to our abilities to protect, maintain and re-purify water but the more successful we are technically; the more we distance ourselves from the responsibility of not abusing water in the first place. The physical, cultural and attitudinal legacy of water we are leaving to our children is unsustainable. We need to return to caring for and loving water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Many children live a modern lifestyle with little contact or understanding of the natural elements. This modern way of life means water is seen as a necessity for daily living; washing, making tea, flushing the toilet\u2026! Water is very much taken for granted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">What do our children think? How much do they really know about water, how would they care for it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Engaging children in a positive, contemplative relationship with nature and water requires opening their minds and hearts to the wonder of its unique qualities and capacities. To facilitate this open way of learning it is necessary for children to establish a love and passion for water as a natural, environmental element and also as a fascinating physical and chemical compound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a title=\"Dr Masaru Emoto\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masaru_Emoto\">Dr Masaru Emoto<\/a> has been a pioneer of research into the effects of our thoughts, words and feelings upon the energetic purity of water molecules. He has shown through his studies the influence which positive or negative thoughts, words, sound and images can affect upon water crystal formation. Publishing his work in the popular, yet controversial, book, \u2018Messages from Water\u2019, Dr Masaru Emoto de\u00adlivers a message, which encourages us to take responsibility for our own mental\/physical health and the well being of the world around us in a way, which is accessible to all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"emoto crystal\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152628\/emoto-crystal.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">DR MASARU EMOTO<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><a title=\"Water crystal photographs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masaru-emoto.net\/english\/water-crystal.html\">The water crystal photographs<\/a>\u00a0 show the effect, which can be made by negative or positive words. Water exposed to \u2018love &amp; gratitude\u2019 formed beautiful hexagonal crystals but water exposed to the phrase \u2018I will kill you\u2019 produced distorted crystals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152629\/imagine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2420 aligncenter\" alt=\"imagine\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152629\/imagine.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"70\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><\/em><span style=\"font-size: medium;color: #0000ff\">Photograph: \u00a0exposed to <em>I<\/em><em>magine\u00a0<\/em>by John Lennon<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Dr Masaru Emoto has shown that molecules of water are affected by our thoughts, words and emotions. Through this highly visual technique he has shown to the world that the energy vibrations change the form of water crystals. Positive words and images create beautiful crystal forms and the negative creates distorted crystals (quantum pollution). These findings gave rise to the <a title=\"Hado theory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.masaru-emoto.net\/english\/hado.html\">HADO theory<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Dr Emoto\u2019s experiments suggest that water has an inherent spirit within it. We are 70% water and are primarily alive because of water. Within the human environment, water itself becomes a living form. The spirit within us is ultimately linked with the spirit of water itself. In this context, water occupies a unique and distinctive place within our living form and is to be cherished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">It is part of human nature to want to be happy. Dr Emoto\u2019s experiments with water help guide us to the conclusion that to be happy we need to look internally and cultivate positive thinking. <a title=\"Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1wjcCgWlhXQ\">Francesco Cavalli-Sforza <\/a>explains that \u2018Happiness does not come automatically\u2026 In order to become happy, we have to learn how to change our selves\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">According to Buddhist philosophy, all phenomena are a manifestation of our continual thoughts, a manifestation of our consciousness. Buddhist teachings look at many ways of cultivating happiness through the practice of meditation. These practices involve imprinting our minds with the positive and reducing negative imprinting through the use of specialised mental imagery and prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Water is the most precious molecule on earth. The health and survival of all living things, including the planet itself, depends on water and yet we abuse, waste and pollute it. Through understanding the living, vibrating and changeable nature of water itself, we can gain a better understanding of the changeable nature of ourselves and the universe around us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">What we do to water, we do to ourselves! We need to take responsibility for what happens to us. Like the human body, the earth\u2019s surface is also 70% water and the idea of water as the \u2018Essential Spirit of Place\u2019 is environmentally relevant both personally and on a global scale. Studying and understanding this concept will help engender a more responsible attitude towards our behaviour, as we begin to realise that our actions can affect both the spirit within and the spirit of our mother Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Water is the essence of life and the great connection between all that lives. The value judgments we display in our treatment of water is intrinsically linked with how we value ourselves as living beings. With this understanding, we as individuals and as a community can work to promote a renewed understanding of the relationship between water and humankind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2429 aligncenter\" alt=\"Kumanga Chanduni Andrahennadi\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/09\/22152628\/Kumanga-Chanduni-Andrahennadi.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><strong>Kumanga Andrahennadi MA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium\">President: <a title=\"Office of Masaru \" href=\"http:\/\/www.masaru-emoto.net\/english\/\">Office Masaru Emoto UK<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:kumi@kumidesign.co.uk\">kumi@kumidesign.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Born in Sri Lanka, Kumanga travelled to the UK as a graphic design student in 2000 and over the last 13 years she has integrated her creative talent, design training, Buddhist practice and interest in community welfare into her academic research and charitable activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">As a University lecturer and PhD Researcher, Kumanga is currently developing a new approach to design practice called \u2018Mindful Heart Design\u2019 and also runs workshops and specialist mindfulness-based programmes for children with ADHD. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">As a Youth Committee member of the Interfaith Scotland, she continues to work throughout Scotland to encourage community cohesion, inter-religious understanding and\u00a0cooperation\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">In 2011 she was nominated by the Interfaith Scotland to address the Scottish Parliament. Currently as the President of Office Masaru Emoto UK, Kumanga works to promote the message: <em>how developing inner peace can inspire peace within families, communities and nations.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Deep inside us we all know that the challenges we face as individuals and as a community are not merely of an economical and technological nature. They concern our basic values and our fundamental conception of what it means to be human. 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