Reverence for Fruit Trees
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 3 years before Apr 11, 2016
Marcia Beloved 3 years ago
Having lived in Brooklyn I've seen many Orthodox Jews on the streets in their traditional garb, including the women with their double-buggy carriages. They keep to themselves so it's interesting to get an up-to-date report on one of the principles that guides their lives:
MiBeloved 3 years ago
To get some understanding what happens when you cut down a mature fruit tree, try getting a very sharp knife and draw it across your tongue.
Nature takes offense to it and marks the person who does the act and those who influenced the person to do so. Thus in the future that person is put into a situation where their food source is cut off and where they can do nothing about it and then they feel the pain of it.
These features are like superstitions in a way but you cannot be sure that Nature will not get back at you for certain actions.
As a small boy growing up in Guyana, there were fruit tress all over Georgetown and these were considered by us kids in a very fond way just as if they were mothers and friends to us.
Sometimes we would walk long distances just to go by a fruit tree and see it or to go by it and sit under it or to touch it. Cutting down a fruit tree was unthinkable. Later in that country people got careless and did not protect such trees, and hardship came on the whole country.
Recently I advised one of my children and her spouse-to-be to plant some flowering plants. I tried to explain that if you are going to start a family you have to have fruit trees and flowering bushes which you care for on a daily basis. And you don’t set up water sprinklers as if they are grass. You actually check on them every morning and afternoon to be sure that they are feeling okay. When I first said this, they looked at me with some strangeness but I made my point.
Woman means fertility but only if the earth agrees and only if plants cooperate. If they do not like the woman, then she is a barren twig. I had a great aunt who is now deceased. She was magic with trees and plants. If she touched a plant, it lived. If she watered a plant it grew prolifically. We as children always wanted to go by her house because there were always fruits growing. She would go out and get something and then come in with a smile and share it.
The big woman here is Bhumi Ma, Mother Earth, and all the other women are her split-off progeny. So if any woman doesn't appreciate mother earth, then that is really a sorry individual.
