The spiral from above

 Here is our spiral from above. 430m long and looking good. Cant believe myself how good it is looking. I really thought we would have to go round this a few times to get it right but I couldn't be happier with its shape. All we are going to do now is make the spiral walkway thicker. As its 430m long we need over 800 holly saplings now to line the spiral with for creating a hedge, and at every 11.5m will be one of my famous oak trees making 37 in total, my lucky number and the 37 practices of the Bodhisattvas.

Bumped into a guy who I've gotten to know from phantom planting at the spiral yesterday who was up to walk the spiral with his kids. He is a wildflower guerrilla gardener himself and does lots of great work for nature. Later that day after meeting them one of his kids decides to draw the spiral with wee betty and the trees in it and sends me it. How cool......

Past few times I've meet this guy he said I was telling him about the old business I had, my buyers of anything sellers of everything superstore. I did house clearance for years and had this store where we sold everything from teapots to double decker buses and a whole load of dodgy stuff buried amongst it all too.

But yesterday he just clicked and said I remember you! I used to go to your store all the time and still have the old drill I bought from you. He said every time he came up I was playing pool with a fridge full of beer.

No matter what time of day it was for about 10 years while I had this store I drank beer from morning till night along with a load of drugs.

He was asking me that back then was the nature and tree stuff in you, it had to have been he said. I said it wasn't, I have no idea what happened to me, these Buddha dudes did something to me I said. Or as my delboy dad would have said "them Boodoos have you possessed son".

My dad couldn't understand me planting trees way back at the start as a nature offering and a karmic cleansing practice. He used to scratch his head saying your at something son, cant put my finger on it but your not running around there planting all them trees and not making any money he would say. 

All my dads cronies thought the same, waiting on some con or scam coming. Still people who I grew up with think this today.

Most of my life I was a hood/crook, when I had that house clearance business I personally used to go through every deceased persons belongings myself, got myself a load of speed pills, fill the fridge full of beer and stayed there for days at times searching everything with a fine comb from peoples houses. I had several vans on the go and loads of workers and all the house clearances used to get piled into a massive store just for me to go through. I researched everything hoping to find the Ming Dynasty vase worth 50 million one day!

Buried in this store I had hidden hundreds of thousands of pounds in cash in fire proof boxes. I had gold, diamonds and all sorts of other precious items. I also had some real dodgy things hidden in there too.

This greedy mindset I lived by for most of my life set these dark frequencies and vibrations out into the world until one day I was living in this warehouse on my own armed up to the teeth with escape hatches and not a true friend in the world.

I was in the hell realm in my mind. 

Everyone run and left me, my family included. For the next few years I spent hundreds of thousands pounds on drink, drugs, women and casinos.

I ended up with not a pot to piss in and my soul completely diminished.

Then this girl came into my life and showed me some spiritual stuff, I then rowed this viking boat with her one day down the river shannon and jumped off drunk like a maniac which just happened to be next door to Jampa Ling Buddhist monastery. As I was at rock bottom something called me to go in and ask these monks can I stay with them. I think they knew I was coming, they welcomed me in with a smile and I stayed for 3 days.

What Buddhism made me see is we make our own life, we are self creating beings. I dug myself into a dark hole and with the right thoughts and actions I can carry myself into the light.

My life is this path now, trees and nature offerings are my form of prayer in action. I've taken enough from mother nature, I think we all have. Time to level up. There is no hiding place from your own deeds. Be careful guys, recognise delusion, practice virtue. This is Buddhism in a nutshell.

I challenge you to phantom plant a tree 

Peace and love 

The Phantom Planter