Ashram Greenhouse ~ January Updates ~ Harvest Experiments

This month’s harvest report is ripe with the results of all the loving care, attention and patience we cultivate in our greenhouse seva (service). We are so blessed to be able to enjoy and share these blissful and bountiful harvests among our sangha (community) and all of our guests.

Big Beautiful Broccoli

We harvested 42.15kg of broccoli! There were many flowers that grew in perfect shapes and colors, delicately picked at the moment they were most tender and had reached their fullest size.

Papaya Experiment

Our indoor papaya experiment is continuing to unfold. The trees have gotten much taller and are beginning to form flowers!

Espinaca Real

After months and months of patiently waiting, the Espinaca Real seeds finally began to germinate, which we have observed takes about 4 weeks. We can now confidently save seeds from our plants and do a weekly seeding to maintain a set number of plants.

Native Chile Dulce

Our stellar, native Chile Dulce patch, which produced very well this year (54.8kg in 2019), has finished its life cycle and is ready to be replaced. It did very well under the awning on the south side of Al-Kauthar.

Wild Lifeforms

Our stellar, native Chile Dulce patch, which produced very well this year (54.8kg in 2019), has finished its life cycle and is ready to be replaced. It did very well under the awning on the south side of Al-Kauthar.

Short Cycle Workforce and Workspace

The Short Cycle team is regularly expanding! This month, we welcomed Annette, who teamed up with Yannick for transplanting, and Kalki has been continuing to help out regularly during the week. We also welcomed Katrina, and Ashram Immersion students, Ian, and Kenyatta!

The entire Premaculture team joined forces to implement the renowned 5S organizational system in Karmashala, our multi-functional workspace.

  • We removed and cleaned every single item
  • Gave the entire structure a fresh coat of paint
  • Redesigned and reorganized many of the processes and workspaces
  • Gave every item a home with labels and signs

Short Cycle Workforce and Workspace

The next phase of the 5S process will require us to implement standards and protocols to continue to improve the way this space is used and help us to maintain the level of cleanliness and order we’ve reached.

We are excited to continue to explore, experiment, and participate in the great world of plants in 2020!  As the outdoor spaces dry out, our 2020 Seed Saving extravaganza will be in full swing…

Namaste,    Hanuman

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Brahmachari:

One whose consciousness has merged with Brahman, the Absolute, and thus has been liberated from all desire, fear, attachment, and material frames of reference. Thus, a Brahmachari naturally lives a life of celibacy, simplicity, and inner solitude.

Satsang:

Meditative meetings in which the highest teachings are shared. Shunyamurti also offers guidance during questions and answers to resolve the most difficult and delicate matters of the heart.

The process of non-process:

Since awakening is instantaneous, along with the recognition that one was never really in the dream, but enjoying the creation of the dream, it must be understood that making awakening into a process can only be part of the dream, and has nothing to do with Awakening itself.

The Real:

When we speak of the Real, unless otherwise qualified, we mean the Supreme Real. The Supreme Real does not appear. Appearance is not Real. All that appears is empty of true existence. There are no real things. All that is phenomenal is temporary, dependent, and reducible to a wave function of consciousness. The world does not exist independent of consciousness. There is no matter or material world. All is made of consciousness. Pure consciousness is Presence. It is no-thing, non-objective, not in space or time. All that appears in Presence, or to Presence, is an emanation of Presence, but is not different from That. This is one meaning of nonduality.

The Real is also a term used in Lacanian psychoanalysis. What Lacan means by the Real is that aspect of phenomenal appearance which is overwhelming, traumatic, or impossible. We would call that Real One. It is a relative Real, not Absolute. We add that there is a Real Two, which consists of divine love. Love is not an appearance, but it changes appearance, through recognition of its Source, into a divine manifestation, a projection of God’s sublimely beautiful Mind as infinite fractal holographic cosmos. Real Three is the unchanging Absolute, beyond all conception or image.

Dharma and dharma:

When we use the term Dharma (capitalized), we refer to our dedication to living in accord with the timeless principles of impeccable integrity that keep us in harmony with Nature and our Supernatural Source.

When we use the term without capitalization, we refer to our acceptance of the community’s processes, protocols, and chain of command with the “Haji! Spirit” of going the “extra mile” and working overtime when necessary to make the impossible inevitable, as our unconditional act of surrender to Love.