Category: Biodynamic

過了一年，再次感受春季才明白 Rudolf Steiner 曾經說過的一段話，他說過春天的花和秋天的花會給人的感覺會有很大分別，正正是人們心靈的寫照

在春天，黃水仙 (daffodils) 和番紅花 (crocus) 通常是在雪後最早開花的植物，春天的花那種感覺是十分純潔的。不過，如果是用來做香料的番紅花 (saffron)，是秋季開花的 Autumn crocus，多了兩條紅色花蕊，感覺便完全不同了，像含有不少世俗的慾望，大家可以看圖比較一下呢，以前只看文字是不容易理解的

 On the other hand let us look at the blossom. When we observe the blossom with the eye of the spirit we only experience it as our own soul, when it cherishes the tenderest desires.  

Only look at a spring flower; it is a sigh of longing, the embodiment of a wish. And something wonderful streams forth over the flower world which surrounds us, if only our soul-perception is delicate enough to be open to it. In spring we see the violet, maybe the daffodil, the lily-of-the-valley, or many little plants with yellow flowers, and we are seized by the feeling that these blossoming plants of spring would say to us: O Man, how pure and innocent can be the desires which you direct towards the spiritual! Spiritual desire-nature, desire-nature bathed, as it were, in piety, breathes from every blossom of spring.  

And when the later flowers appear — let us at once take the other extreme, let us take the autumn crocus — can one behold the autumn crocus with soul-perception without having a slight feeling of shame? Does it not warn us that our desires can tend downwards, that our desires can be imbued with every kind of impurity? It is as though the autumn crocuses spoke to us from all sides, as if they would continually whisper to its: Consider the world of thy desires, O Man; how easily you can become a sinner!  

Looked at thus, the plant-world is the mirror of human conscience in external nature. Nothing more poetical can be imagined than the thought of this voice of conscience coming forth from some point within us and being distributed over the myriad forms of the blossoming plants which speak to the soul, during the season of the year, in the most manifold ways. The plant-world reveals itself as the wide-spread mirror of conscience if we know how to look at it aright.

雖然農夫先生同太太去到英國唔能夠如願進修，亦唔能夠繼續同土地工作，內心曾經抱怨，但畢竟相信上天嘅安排總有原因，待係英國嘅日子還是可以親身體驗史代納博士對地球一年四季變化對應靈性修行描述。

地球係冬季，係處於比喻人日中清醒嘅時候，以頭腦回歸自我內在嘅沉思。英國嘅冬天日短夜長，下午四時已經天黑，室外非常寒冷，大多數人都會留係屋企；樹木上嘅葉全落，減少能量消耗，當然亦因爲日照不足，再長葉作用不大。根部在温暖嘅泥土內重整同期待春天來臨，再一次為地球展現自己。

所以人智學對由平安夜開始到主顯節的12個聖夜非常重視，人好好靜思12個道德，回顧過去，展望未來，為來年做預備。

人類文明已經去到臨界點，希望大家努力回到自己內在，覺察，反省，創造有愛嘅世界。

共勉之。

在香港做生機互動比在外國難，土地不多，連飼養一隻牛也很困難。在沒有牛或動物，沒有動物糞便的情況下，我們只可以做到以雜草做的堆肥。由每次除草，收集，到做成一個堆，動輒用上一至兩個月時間，非常艱辛。但當看到種出來的植物有其本質，菜是菜，瓜是瓜的時候，再辛苦都覺得值得。

為什麼要做堆肥，而不直接用買回來的肥料（不論是「有機」還是「化肥」）？

在史代納博士農業八課以外的演講，農夫太太讀到這段文字：

You can see that it is also a question of giving proper nourishment to the plants themselves. And that means, we must realize that plants are living things; they are not minerals, they are something alive. A plant comes to us out of the seed we put in the ground. The plant cannot flourish unless the soil itself is to some degree alive. And how do we make the soil alive? By manuring it properly. Yes, proper manuring is what will give us really good plant protein.

We must remember that for long, long ages men have known that the right manure is what comes out of the horses' stalls, out of the cow barn and so on; the right manure is what comes off the farm itself.

And you can see, gentlemen, when one uses mineral fertilizer, it is as if one just put minerals into the ground; then only the root becomes strong. Then we get from the plants the substance that helps to build up our bones. But we don't get a proper protein from the plants. And the plants, our field grains have suffered from the lack of protein for a long time. And the lack will become greater and greater unless people return to proper manuring.

There have already been agricultural conferences in which the farmers have said: Yes, the fruit gets worse and worse! And it is true. But naturally the farmers haven't known the reason. Every older person knows that when he was a young fellow, everything that came out of the fields was really better. It's no use thinking that one can make fertilizer simply by combining substances that are present in cow manure. One must see clearly that cow manure does not come out of a chemist's laboratory but out of a laboratory that is far more scientific — it comes from the far, far more scientific laboratory inside the cow. And for this reason cow manure is the stuff that not only makes the roots of plants strong, but that works up powerfully into the fruits and produces good, proper protein in the plants which makes man vigorous.

Lecture 7 1924