206 apple trees planted.

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 Thats 206 heritage Irish apple trees phantom planted so far in the past month. Over 200 more to go. Most of which will be planted at our Lisnabreeny community orchard where everyone can go and enjoy.


For over 10 years now I've been randomly phantom planting fruit everywhere I normally go. A green patch here or a layby there. I eye up the spots and fill them up with fruit trees.


It was around 7 years ago when I really started to up my phantom plantings.

I managed to escape the alcohol trap and had so much extra time and money on my hands from not hanging around bars drinking all the time.

So I decided to use that time and money to buy trees and phantom plant them.

It was an antidote for me, in Buddhism they talk a lot about antidotes. The antidote idea sat so well with me. As when I tried to give up drink or types of drugs in the past it was slowly being replaced with some other type of unhealthy desire. Give up drinking, all of a sudden you start to smoke more weed. Give up the coke and all of a sudden micro dosing LSD was creeping in. Then theres prescription pills. Thats just another mental minefield to go through.


I didnt want to have to take anything to get me by in life. Its all mental desire at the end of the day. If you've to take stuff daily just to take the edge of things in my head it was all still controlling me. I thought micro dosing LSD was great until I couldn't get any and my mind was thrown right back into that addictive turmoil.


Maybe its ok to carry on popping pills or micro dosing for the rest of your life, who knows! 


But for me the real challenge is gaining ultimate control of my own mind. Buddhism advises against all intoxicants and the distortion of reality. Good sound advice. 


This reality we are in is already one big hallucinating trip. Be careful what other portals or realms your going to open with all these mind altering substances around, especially if our minds are already weak and not well trained. There are all sorts of dark entities out there just waiting to hijack and trespass our consciousness.

I still have my own vices I go too, I'm far from pure but my motivation is to become pure in the mind. Free from all desire.


Its all a practice and Buddhism always advises to stick to the middle path, dont go to extremes. Dont try to do everything in one go. Our brains are hard wired with certain patterns. It took years to develop these addictive traits. They arent just going to disappear overnight.


The Buddhist Eighfold path talks of right view, right motivations, right thoughts, right speech and right action. All these should align to where you want to be.


What is your motivation to want to give up drink and drugs? Mine is to help contribute to nature more.


Hope you enjoy another phantom planters ramble!


If you fo phantom plant a tree. Antidotes is where its at guys. 


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter


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