By Hugo M. G. von Österreich und von Toskana
March 18, 2013
Source: clubdelaefectividad |
An oyster
needs very little to live. Can a human be like an oyster? Most people with no interior depth at all would say no. No, because a human is not an oyster. But
nevertheless a human could be like an oyster if he could find his interior pearl.
It really is
all a matter of perspective. We can learn a lot from a humble oyster, for an
oyster is one with Earth.
A single humble oyster is an entire civilisation. A civilisation of organised atoms and molecules dancing in harmony with the power of the spark of life.
The sickness of richness
A single humble oyster is an entire civilisation. A civilisation of organised atoms and molecules dancing in harmony with the power of the spark of life.
The sickness of richness
A man,
especially a hungry rich man with hunger for power, is a vast camp of
hungry men desiring to eat oysters, real oysters and imaginary oysters. He suffers from the sickness of richness.
Real oysters can satisfy a normal man´s hunger but imaginary oysters can never fill up a man´s sack.
Real oysters can satisfy a normal man´s hunger but imaginary oysters can never fill up a man´s sack.
A rich man´s
hunger for power is endless. He is ever hungry for imaginary oysters of power. He
is never satisfied because his hunger is not for real oysters. He instead craves for their shadows, and these that can never satisfy his bottomless hunger. He is a prisoner of his
imaginary oysters.
Unless any man disposes of his imaginary hunger for power, he can never be like an oyster. Any man can be contained in an oyster, an oyster of self-knowledge.
Only if a man gets rid of his hunger for power, he can then become one with a humble oyster
and thus one with the Oyster of the Universe.
He will then come to peace with himself and the world around him and therefore he will never
be hungry for imaginary oysters that do not fill his empty shell.
He will then need
less, just enough to live in harmony inside and outside of himself. This is the lesson of the humble oyster.
Nature could then be safe from his abuses, poisoning, butchering and slaughtering above and below.
Nature could then be safe from his abuses, poisoning, butchering and slaughtering above and below.
Rich people
could be like a humble oyster if only they were hungry for real oysters. But
they cannot become an oyster with the oyster because they are hungry for oysters that are not oysters. They long all the time for oysters of power.
Indeed it is
easier for an oyster to open its shells than a rich man opening his chest to
the real oyster of life, the one that makes you feel rich just with one real
oyster.
The following list (Table 1) shows the largest land grabbers
on planet Earth. People who do not feel rich just with one real
oyster:
Table 1. Persons or corporations who own the world. Source: The New Statesman. An acre is 40% of a hectare.
For these people just one real oyster is never enough. They
must have all the world´s oysters. They steal from the needs of all of the ones that also have needs.
In their quest for more and more imaginary oysters of power, they have unfolded and cast a giant net of businesses and enterprises just to toss imaginary oysters for all of those people around the world who are also looking for imaginary oysters and thus as a whole they have set up in motion a monster that is devouring entire ecosystems and spitting sickness and death.
Man (Homo insapiens) has put at risk the Biosphere that sustains his own life.
A humble oyster does not do this. It is one with Earth.
In their quest for more and more imaginary oysters of power, they have unfolded and cast a giant net of businesses and enterprises just to toss imaginary oysters for all of those people around the world who are also looking for imaginary oysters and thus as a whole they have set up in motion a monster that is devouring entire ecosystems and spitting sickness and death.
Man (Homo insapiens) has put at risk the Biosphere that sustains his own life.
A humble oyster does not do this. It is one with Earth.
Can you
become like a humble Oyster?
References
Rothkopf D. (2008). Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, USA. 376 p.
References
Rothkopf D. (2008). Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, USA. 376 p.
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