Conscious living (2 Oct)

Let us treat all as we would like to experience it

Walk Day 2 

As we started walking up to the Blockhouse today at 6am, in solidarity with the survivors of gender based violence, I was feeling slow, just emerging into the new dawn. 

Then I heard the natter amongst the four men accompanying me, and their conversation awoke my mind. 

"Imagine," one said: "If AI could empower us to really hear and talk to other beings on earth. What would Betty, the poodle, be saying? What would the proteas be saying?" 

Another mused: "I don't think the meerkat stops and say that this is a beautiful morning. It is our consciousness that enables us to exclaim 'that dawning light is so beautiful'."   

And the other responded: "We are the universe experiencing itself." 

Conscious living in the world

And I thought: "Let us treat all of the universe - children, women, men, people of all genders, animals, plants, all life - as we would like to experience it."  

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October Walk Details in Cape Town

• Date: 3 October 6.00am
• Difficulty: Moderate
• Duration: 2.5hrs, 7.5km
• Route Vredehoek Jeep Track: From Vredehoek (mountain end of Chelmsford Rd), to Blockhouse and back. Click this PIN for starting point.
• Click here to join future walks.