Drop one petal at a time

There are so many different ways of spiritual awakening and spiritual enlightenment.


Grow up~~~YES!

Open your heart~~~YES!

Open one petal at a time~~~YES!

We all know this~~~Listen to your heart~~~YES!

For flowers, dropping the petal is the one we need in order to form the seeds~~~because she needs to save all the energy to help the process of seed formation.


Work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it~~~together by dropping one petal at a time!

Dropping the petal may be the hardest thing of all in our life!

Drop one petal at a time ~~~our ego!

Drop one petal at a time ~~~our pride!

Drop one petal at a time ~~~our philosophy!

Drop one petal at a time ~~~our idea!

Drop one petal at a time ~~~our arrogance!

This is a way to return to our home~~~mother earth.

Working together to achieve a common goal by dropping one petal at a time!



What else do we need to drop?

Lessons from HaPPy flower!

We all are a drop of water

We all are a drop of water in a different form.


Each drop of water adds silently in the pond of universe.

One by one~~~one drop at a time.

Even if each drop of water are unaware that we have been together or we have forgotten that we are together since the begining, our hearts know how to return to our home.


Let's enjoy being in the majestic existence before being evaporated and come again in different forms!

Let's listen to our hearts and follow the flow of mothe nature!
Let's return to our home!

Korean Pancake with Nasturtium leaf

This is Nasturtium Flower!

This is Nasturtium leaf!

This is an edible flower!  The flower symbolism associated with the nasturtium is victory in battle, conquest and patriotism. Nasturtium literally means "nose-twister" or "nose-tweaker" because it is too hot to twist your nose.  
To me, it is too hot to eat, and to me, it stand out too much.  It is like the negative aspects of patriotism.
Since I wish no harm upon others, I am the No more wars and the No more violence!

One interesting thing about the Nasturtium Flower is the more the sun-exposed it gets, the hotter the taste it gets.   As we all know that patriotic zealots will die for in the name of patriotism.
I firmly believe that the patriotism brings out the most negative impact that has been against World Peace, which is an ideal of freedom, peace, and co-existance across all the beings.  We all need to learn Mutual Respect, not at the expense of others! 

So, for me, I usually add something over this flower to get the semi-partial sun. I usually put them in my salad by mixing with other greens because it tastes better with others! Or I cook with other vegetables. How about making Korean Pancake with Nasturtium leaf?

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Korean Pancake with Nasturtium leaf and Carrot

• Ingredients for vegetables

1. 1 cup of rough chopped Nasturtium leaf

2. 1 cup of carrots, grated

3. 1/2 cup of onion Julienne

4. 1/2 cup of scallions, root ends trimmed, cut into 2-inch diagonal pieces

5. Nasturtium Flowers for garnish



• Ingredients for Korean Pancake Batter

1cup of filtered water

2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted

1 ts soy sauce

½ ts salt

½ ts sesame oil

½ ts fresh grounded black pepper

Four garlic cloves, crushed and minced (I am a garlic crazy lover. So I used 4 --but you can use 1 or 2 cloves: no offense)

One egg (optional)

Combine all the ingredients and add all the vegetables to set aside at least 1 hour

• Ingredients for Dipping sauce

3 tablespoons soy sauce

1 teaspoon rice vinegar

1 tablespoon chopped scallions

1/2 tablespoon toasted sesame seeds

1/4 teaspoon dried hot red pepper flakes

1/4 teaspoon sesame oil

Coming all the ingredients to make Dipping sauce and keep it in a glass jar with lid for a few weeks in the fridge.



Preparation:

1. Heat a non-stick frying pan with one tablespoon of vegetable oil over medium and high heat.

2. Reduce to the medium heat once it is HOT.  Pour the mixture (about 1/2 cup pancake batter) into the hot frying pan and cook until you see bubbles rising on the surface. Spread or press to make sure that the pancake is spread evenly.

3. Use a spatula to slide under the pancake and flip it over carefully when you see the tiny bubbles and dry out on the pancake surface and the bottom of the pancake is browned

4. Cook on the other side until the top layer is also browned, then transferred to a paper towel to drain the oil.

5. Serve these pancakes when they are fresh and hot. Dip into the dipping sauce. Life is heaven!

Natural Beauty and Healthy Tips!

Cosmetic and Product Testing = Animal Suffering!


Millions of animals, such as rabbits, rats, guinea pigs and many other non-human beings, suffer and die because of inhumane animal testing for Cosmetic and Product Testing!

Moisturizer cream~~~deep-wrinkle remover cosmetics~~~Eye cream~~~Eyeshadow~~~Lip gross & balm~~~soap ~~~furniture polish ~~~oven cleaner are all tested on in order to establish the safety of their cosmetics and household products and ingredients for consumers.

Now, there are some companies claming that they don’t test on animals!



Some European countries have passed the law~~~ban on the use of animals in cosmetics testing.



What do we need to do in order to prevent Animal Suffering?

Be as natural as possible in our life and our skin!
Do not buy products from Animal Suffering, but make your own Natural Beauty and Skin Care at home!

How to reduce stress? This is a way to ease our stress~~~making

Rosemary-Apple Cider Vinegar at home!

I packed 1/3 of the clean jar with fresh rosemary leaves (without woody stem) and add apple cider Vinegar. Leave about 4-6 weeks and use for salad dressing or for rice balls. I also use for my hair rinse~~~this is super good.



This is very simple and easy to make!

... The smell of rosemary is so wonderful, and it makes my house rosemary heaven.

I love the smell of rosemary in my house.

Stop worrying and smell the rosemary!

Or smell the rosemary to reduce stress~~~releasing a happy surge!
Please feel free to add your insights and share your natural healty tips here so that we can learn from each other!

Homemade facial toner!

I have been making my own facial toner for the past two years. This is super easy and very relaxing to make.

I use:

1 cup of rain water (In winter, I get the clean snow water in the Mountain Park where I go for snowshoeing. The clean snow water from the Mountain is the best IMO because it is far from the car and air pollution. You can use distilled water)

1/2 cup of chopped fresh Rosemary, Peppermint and Sage leaves (you can use one or more herbs of your choice~~~and if you only have dried herbs, you only use 1/4 cup of dried herbs)

2 teaspoons of Apple Cider Vinegar



1. In a small sauce pot, add water and bring to boil.

2. Turn the heat off and add herbs.

3. Let it steep for 20 -30 minutes.

4. I use a paper coffee filter to strain out herbs and put them in my compost pile.

5. Add vinegar and pour into a clean bottle.

6. Keep it in refrigerator, and I use for about one month.

Feed Skin the way you eat!

Feed Skin the way you eat!

After more than one month of hospitalization in both the Critical Care Unit (CCU) and the intensive care unit (ICU) from my brain aneurysm rupture, I came home with many setbacks ~~~ I could not even walk properly, and I could not sit or stand more than one hour.


When I felt I had NO hope~~~NO life ~~~NO tomorrow, my backyard welcomed me to start a new life~~~a new chapter~~~a new-found appreciation for life~~~a new-found connection to our Mother Earth. By working in the soil, planting seeds, and connecting to our Mother Earth, I dug up the soil and asked myself, "Who am I?" and “What have I done to my body?” I sat down in my backyard and asked myself, "What went wrong?” It took about two years to figure out what went wrong. I realized I was the one who did not listen to my body. I was the one who ate all the quick processed and fast foods for convenience because I was too busy to meet other duties.

I, like everyone else, became a slave of time and money~~~selling the hours of my life to pursue material goods. I had followed the crowd to meet all the material desire and all the societal expectations that had influenced by our society~~~our world. I did not realize what I was doing and how I abuse my body and our Mother Earth. I did not realize so many different layers of selfishness and ego on my body and mind and becoming vain until I became an organic gardener after experiencing a near-death.

After two years of my healing jouney, I learned what went wrong and realized I was the one who can make a difference in my life. 

I started eating healthy foods! I started cooking, which means less store bought foods ~~~less processed foods. I started changing things in my life to see what is needed vs. what is wanted in order to regain and maintain good health physically, mentally, spiritually, etc. I started getting rid of all the stress, improper diet. UNHEALTHY & unnecessary habits and just focused on my health. I decided to reduced my sugar intakes and eat fresh vegetables that I grow.

I have decided to feed my skin the way I eat!  Feed Your Skin the way you eat!
I've been trying to be as natural as possible in my life and my skin. I used to have



Here are some tips how to have healthy skin from me!


1. Cut sugar intakes, store bought foods, processed foods as much as possible


2. Grow Aloe Vera at home and use it whenever you can.

3. This is not a juice to drink. This is the rice liquid!  I save the rice liquid after washing rice to cook. I usually wash my rice three times. I discard the first liquid, but save the second and third rice liquid so that I can use either cooking to make soups or wash my face. Just trust me, washing our face with rice liquid is REALLY good one!

4. RAW honey without chemicals and additives. Raw Honey is the best because it contains a variety of healing properties, such as antimicrobial attributes.  I wash my face with RAW honey once a per instead of using commercial chemical cleaners).  I think it is one of the best cleansers!

5. Baking soda. I use for my face cleansing and exfoliating.

Unit 731: Hushing up Crime Against Humanity!

Author: YoonOk Kim


Unit 731: Hushing up Crime Against Humanity!

By YoonOk Kim

One of the worst atrocities in modern history is the Japanese Army's human experimentation. This is so called ‘Unit 731' or ‘Biological Warfare Unit 731'. This human experimentation is biological medical science using human guinea pigs in ‘live human beings'.



Unlike the holocaust, many people do not know about Unit 731 because America and Japan made a DEAL for exchange and try to hush up the crime against humanity. In my opinion, everyone seems to know about the holocaust during the European chapter, but there are very little things known what actually happened in Asia.



America took advantage of the Japanese research by paying off direct cash payments to obtain the experimental results of ‘Unit 731' in exchange for data and secretly granted immunity from prosecution to Japanese scientists in 1946-1948 under General MacArthur as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces.



On May 6, 1947, Douglas MacArthur wrote to Washington saying that Biological Warfare Unit 731 is NOTconsidered as 'War Crimes'. The investigation was concluded in 1948 after obtaining information from intelligence channels and interviews who worked for Unit 731' according to the report written under the name of General Douglas MacArthur.



The United Nations have now considered officially Unit 731's actions as war crimes, contrary to the report generated by General Douglas MacArthur.



All the scientists or military personnel who involved Unit 731 did not need to stand on trial for war crimes against humanity, but proceeded prominent careers in post-war politics, universities, business, and medicine by taking their data and their experience with them either in the Japan or the United States. With the help of America, Japan has been successfully advanced all the research data based on torture, cruel and inhuman treatment to their next generations besides all the smuggling and stolen artifacts and art treasures from all over the Asia.



This happened during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II, ‘Unit 731' conducted a special project, code-named Maruta (meaning "logs"), committed for biological medical science using live human beings.



There have been some disputes over death toll number, like all other atrocities. According to the 2002 International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare, the total number of causalities caused by Japan Army Biological Warfare Unit using human experiments is around 580,000. According to other general sources, the total number of causalities caused was possibly as many as 200,000 deaths of military personnel and civilians for only Chinese.



Test subjects were gathered from prisoners of war, anti-Japanese partisans, including infants, the elderly and pregnant women. More than 95 percent of the victims who died in the camp were Chinese and Korean, including both civilian and military; others were prisoners of Russian and Americans or Other Nationalities. Test subjects as the live human victims were given no pain killers and as the scientists or military personnel sliced the stomach open or cut off to get livers or to slice an arm or leg. The military personnel who sliced the live body testified that he heard the victim's screaming.



When the experiment was completed, the victim was left to die. The military personnel testified that after injecting test subjects with various diseases, scientists performed invasive surgery without anesthesia by cutting organs to study the effects of disease on the human body. It was believed that live subjects were used from preventing the decomposition process. Based on a testmony, they could hear all the screaming and crying in pain until the end of last breath.



Japanese would rather not talk about Unit 731, and America would rather hush up for the valuable data exchange obtained using live human beings.



Japanese acted far worse than any other nations~~~in terms of people they killed in genocide exceeding that of the Holocaust Genocide and inhumanity and cruelty worse than Nazi Germany. The inhumanity and cruelty of Japanese not only applied most Asian countries, but also applied Australia and New Zealand.



Among countless Asian Holocaust and war crimes committed by Japanese during thier imperial expansion starting from 1894 to 1945, these are some of the merciless acts: Nanking Massacre in 1937 (death toll estimated between 100,000 and 300,000), Comfort Women (estimated 100,000 to 400,000), Bataan Death March, YELLOW RIVER FLOOD (1938), HONG KONG ATROCITIES (December 25, 1941), THE PARIT SULONG MASSACRE (January, 1942), PHILIPPINES MASSACRE etc. But, the total numbers of causalities caused by Japan died in mines, factories, etc. are unknown.



At the age of 13, my grandma witnessed armed Japanese set the fire at her house while her parents were inside still alive. This massacre of the people was done to get rid of all the influential Korean people in order for Japanese to control Korea during the occupation without hindrance.



My grandmother was shocked and horrified. After the burning of my grandma's house, which her brother also witnessed, the Japanese abducted her only brother. No one knew to where and what he was taken; he never came home.



The 36 years of the brutal and inhumane Japanese Occupation of Korea is a half of my grandma's life. My grandma was beat up by Japanese, and she saw Japanese beating my dad until the near-death. My grandma witnessed Japanese killing and slicing innocent people and some buried alive.



People with the superiority concepts can brutalize other humans terribly and inhumanely, and these brainwashing themes have been largely reflected from their behaviors towards their "Sub-Human" races.



The corruption, crime, crime against humanity, cruelty, and genocide are appeared all over the world by us, human beings—born of women's wombs—but raised by the whole world. Many are in denial but voice forward movement while trying to ignore the truth what really happened.



What will happen when our universe including trees, plants, sea, stars, moon and sun has witnessed innocent people who were sliced alive in screaming and crying to die while these two countries were exchanging and trading ‘the experimental results and hushing about what really happened?



What were in mind when slicing live human flesh, with the unbearable screaming in the background? How much did victims struggling against you?



How did you restrain them? How many ‘LOGs' did you slice when your ‘LOGs' were still alive screaming?



Do you hear the cacophony of screams louder and louder?



Do you hear the echo returning slowly~~~~but getting stronger and stronger?



The more we tried to hide or ignore the real history what actually happened ~~~the louder and louder it gets from the echo of Universe.



The more we tried to suppress the real truth what actually happened ~~~the more and more we regret that simply festers inside in you.



The more you deny the truth~~~the louder and louder it gets. The echo of the Universe is resonating slowly~~~~but it is getting stronger and stronger.



Do you feel the echo of the Universe?



When are we going to end all those Inhumane Atrocities?



When are we going to pay our respect to all those dead souls?



This is TIME to realize we are brothers and sisters!



This is TIME to realize we are family!



We all need to work To-Gether to go through this phase of our time.



We all need to work To-Gether to stop wars and violence and atrocities!



This is the TIME to see things through the eyes of victims.



This is the TIME to feel the tears of the victims!



This is to break the constant occurring through generations after generations.



This is the TIME to keep our reality real, including real history



This is the TIME to stop repeating inhumanity towards another beings~~~both non-human and human beings. We are No better than any other species in the pond of Universe.



This is TIME to move forward with expressing proper apology and heartfelt repentance through the eyes of victims. Because we are family!
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/history-articles/unit-731-hushing-up-crime-against-humanity-5115284.html


About the Author


YoonOk Kim began writing after experiencing a near-death from her brain aneurysm rupture in 2007. After more than one month of hospitalization in the ICU, she came home with many setbacks.



When she felt she had NO hope and NO life, her backyard welcomed her to start new life...a new chapter. By working in the soil, planting seeds, and connecting to mother earth, she asked herself, "Who am I?".



With her feet and her two hands, like roots, connecting with the warmth of the mother soil, she dig up the soil to plant seeds of love and healing and peace.



In the same way she dig in her garden, she dig up the story of her mother and her grandmother, while the history of her birth land, Korea, lingers in the background. Through the digging of the soil and the past, she now realizes that her family story is a part of history~~~not separate from it. Through the rootedness from the plants, she now feels and smells the soil.



This was how she started writing her stories to heal the root~~~protect our Mother Earth.