F-san isn't scared of labor; this is clear from his farm and his practices. But it is clear he means to make something more of his practice, his endeavors mean more than simple toil.I do not particularly like the word "work".
He further divides these two as the farming of spirit vs.. the farming of intellect. Anyone who has followed my diatribes knows full well my justification of organic culture through scientific proof, and my eschewing of standardized agriculture based on it's damages to the natural world, but F-san challenges me further. It goes beyond this rational embrace of organics, to the Zen-like focus of natural farming.I went on to say that among natural farming methods two kinds can be distinguished: broad transcendent natural farming and the narrow natural farming of the relative world.
Can we in America adopt this to fit our current lifestyles? Or is this something we must embrace in contrastor even direct opposition to our modern lifestyles? Is there a middle road?...in trancendant natural farming the relationship between humanity and nature can be compared to a husband and wife joined in perfect marriage. The marriage is not bestowed, not recieved; the perfect pair comes into existence of itself.
HG