http://www.dharmacafe.com/gaia/ en comments@christinesuzuki.com Copyright 2009 2009-12-25T20:37:54+00:00 http://www.dharmacafe.com/gaia/how-to-befriend-a-tree/ http://www.dharmacafe.com/gaia/how-to-befriend-a-tree/#When:20:37:54Z Beginning practitioners of Chinese internal organ massage (Chi Nei Tsang) are taught how to commune with trees. Shouldn’t this be part of everyone’s education? 2009-12-25T20:37:54+00:00 http://www.dharmacafe.com/gaia/descartes-and-animals-what-if-they-also-think/ http://www.dharmacafe.com/gaia/descartes-and-animals-what-if-they-also-think/#When:16:45:01Z “Before humans shifted into rational thinking, we saw our world as reflections of us; we knew we existed as a part of the great web of existence. And we therefore understood that non-human animals are different from us in degree only. We did not see ourselves as distinct, as a completely separate species. We knew that other animals operate with awareness, understand the world in different, sometimes superior ways, and respond consciously to the world. We saw them with compassion.” 2008-08-30T16:45:01+00:00