Anniversary of my wee mum

  Today is the anniversary of the passing of my wee mum. 14 years ago today on Friday 13th of all days she passed away.

(She always was a bit of a witch)

What reminded me of her anniversary was I seen a few swallows yesterday when out and about. The day she passed I remember I was at by buyers of anything-sellers of everything superstore and right when I got the call to say she had passed I walked outside, looked up, and there was all the swallows just arriving from their long journey from the other end of the world. These wee birds would have nested in my warehouse every year.

Seeing these wee birds arrive that day was very comforting for me as for many years I used to love watching these wee birds come and live in my warehouse.

If my wee mum could see me now!

At the time when she passed I was right at the peak of my old dodgy life. Buddha or trees was not even a thought in my head. 

I was the richest I had ever been money ways, but I was in the hell realm in my mind. 

Negative karma that I created was ripening fast and furious in my life. To be honest though its only due to this past that has me believing in Buddhism so much. In Buddhist cosmology they talk about all the different realms of existence and that how we think and interact with the world around us determines which realms we move in and out of. The hungry ghost realm is the place of severe craving. I craved so much, drink, drugs, sex and money.

Living like this we loose sight of our morals. How we conduct ourselves in life while being controlled with these cravings turns us into scumbags. We then acquire so much negative karma which one day comes into fruition and sucks the mind right down to the hell realm where we suffer.

I was very fortunate that at the time the Buddhas teachings were presented to me that I was able to hear them. They say when you've too much negative karma lurking you cant hear the teachings. Only when so much negative karma is burned off can you hear the teachings of the Dharma.

You know yourself, when your sitting with a bottle of vodka and a line of coke and someone starts talking divine with you, you feel like telling them to do one. We are so wrapped up in our own ignorance and self gratifications.

The Buddhas teachings touched me deep within though. Listening and reading all the books was like light bulb moments for me. How I was living was wrong. Everything I was selling over the years was at the expense of mother nature. I was just another brainwashed parasite programmed to play the monopoly board. These paper and digits we all chase are a from of accountancy. To account for one thing, the destruction of nature. Every time something is mined or a tree chopped down the puppeteers of the monopoly board make up another paper or digit to account for this destruction. The more paper and digits you have the more destruction of nature is accounted for.

Its one of the reasons I believe many super rich people turn into philanthropists. They know they've been a parasite for too long, death is near and they are so uncertain.

Obviously we all have to take from nature to survive but we must keep it symbiotic.

This pic was taken yesterday, its The Phantom Planters HQ. Planting fruit trees for the community and nature is my way of trying to level up with my soul debt and my debt with nature.

And what I love about phantom planting without permission is I will always be a rogue. Phantom planting keeps that rascal in me happy. 

I challenge you to phantom plant a tree 

Peace and love 

The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty