Celebrate the Earth
every day as a matter
of personal habit
Make composting your practice
to insure the continued health
of our beloved planet
That's the gist of it, really. Earth Day shouldn't be viewed as a one and done thing. It's good we set today aside to celebrate but what's far more important is what we do and how we live all the other days of the year. And that's where Compost Mentis comes in. Composting is a daily practice. And it's relatively easy. It takes only a few seconds to show our enduring love for Mother Earth by removing the label from the banana peel before dropping it in the compost bin.
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As a form of spiritual practice, composting deviates somewhat from the Buddhist tradition of the Eightfold Path, in which practitioners first learn to cultivate awareness and intention, which in turn leads to profound changes in behavior. The practice of composting generally works the other way around -- we change behavior first, simply by starting to collect our kitchen scraps in a separate bin, and from that relatively small change in behavior, consistently performed, a whole new awareness begins to take form. We become Compost Mentis. Transformation ensues.
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