Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot(OVER)

By Tom Butler (Editor), William N. Ryerson (Introduction) Eileen Crist (Afterword), Musimbi Kanyoro (Foreword)

I found the photo essay

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot

in a bizarre bookshop while wandering in Loveland, CO.

My experience with this book lead to a 9 month long dance

with the photos, its content, and its meaning.

In tandem with reflections on Buddhist teaching I made

original music, prose and several video compilations

6.1.2021 – 5.21.2021

Overdevelopment, Over Population, Overshoot – Full Screen – HD 1080

“This Is not Mine, This I am Not, This is Not Myself” – The Buddha

The earth system

Suffering and humans

If rebirth brings us back to the same earth

What earth do we inherit…and if there is no rebirth

Then what earth do we leave behind?

Yama holds the wheel of life in his mouth

the great cycle of life and death

Samsara

The Realms of Samsara and The Earth System

In Buddhism they say:

Samsara is the cycle of death and rebirth

They say

There is the Deva Realm, the god realm and the primary emotion of pleasurable distraction wearing a crown of energy

The Asuras of the Demi-god realm know envy at the throat chakara

Humans are with earth, and have jealousy and energy at the heart chakara

The Animal realm is at the naval and knows ignorance

The Pretas are the Hungry-ghosts, greedy with energy at the sex organs

The Hell realm knows hatred at the soles of the feet

They say there is an exit through the human realm,

The Humans are with Earth

a departure from the endless cycle of Samsara…

Humans creating in the terror and torment of darkness and ignorance

have brought about machines of destruction and war

The earth has become polluted by the toilings and wanting of the hungry ghost realm

The want of more, ingrained in the systems of capital and governance

The animals and the humans of the animal realm flee the destruction, struggling to find peace and transcendence

The Asuras speak the world into existence from the throat Chakra, envy leading and misleading, professing, debating, battling the Devas and building earthly palaces. Jealousy, power and voice.

The wholeness of earth, changed and made, built and modified

The flow of the earth system rearranged by humans

The waste objects pilling up in the ocean currents and rivers, the vains and arteries of the earth clogged with plastics and oil.

The Devas, aware of the earthly condition would rather dwell peacefully above the earth,

with god like creations of mind,

swatting away the Asuras, casually defending their heavenly palace in the sky.

The knower of worlds, transcending the boundaries of the wheel of life held in Yama’s mouth

traversing the planes of existence, knowing the different realms, encountering all the realities of perception

From hell to the godly palace and back again, the knower of worlds travels around the cycle of Samsara,

adding a wobble to its rigidity.

Knowing suffering, cessation and impermanence

the heights and depths

the fires and freezing of the mind- body

the deserts of consciousness,

mental formations and form,

the ultimate realities of matter,

the ultimate reality of feeling and perception,

and the oasis of Nibbāna.

Learning of Annata, nonself,

Identity and being an individual,

If all beings do indeed pass out of life, into the death cycle and back again

Then what earth do they inherit?

The smoke stack skys, landfill cities and oil field wastelands

Do the humans build and regrow, a synthesis of worlds, across the dimensional planes of existence

the designed and the natural together

creating earths future for the facilitation of enlightenment

A whole earth and the cessation of suffering for all earths beings.

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot

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Deep Wonder (Minimal)

Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot

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