Whenever we are in the present. But the present, made me in the past and where I am.

Sometimes a word makes us change, we don’t even realize it at the time.

Well, in 2010, I was doing my PhD at LSE which was about Israel and Palestine and I dropped out. I was treated so well in Israel and Palestine and I don’t even know Arabic and Hebrew. I even had to take Arabic and Hebrew classes. But I didn’t know how I could have peace.

At my college I had a friend from Israel who had refused to join the Army

In Israel, young men have to be 3 years old, and women have to be 2 years old. My friend had refused to join the army. He was imprisoned for a year and asked and said he wouldn’t go, so he was imprisoned inside Palestine. They thought he would change his mind, but in 2 years in prison inside Palestine he learned Arabic.

Well, my friend was doing his doctorate about Africa, and I told him that I had seen the Israeli army inside Palestine and I had seen children being arrested and I was shocked. I went to tell him, as he knew about the injustices, I told him

“But if you speak Hebrew and also know how to speak Arabic, you can help”

And he told me

“But if you’re from a farm family, why don’t you do something about indigenous people?”

Well, I left my PhD for India and you understand where we are from because the internal prison is complex. I think I started to understand that social problems are always more outside than their society. Outside of society, it becomes clearer what has internal value.

I like India because in Dharam Sala there are Tibetan courses, that is, courses that don’t focus on material things. There I met Tibetans who are not tied to a society, their value is not fixed, it is impermanent.

This year I met Rafa and the conversation began to talk about not knowing ourselves, and our illness. Well, I asked about the college. And she told me it’s biology.

Good when I told
about my dream about trees, and she told me about her studies about how trees have feelings.

Wow, when she told me about a study, I went to see it, and I even heard the sound of the tree. I cried with emotion. Plants cry. Plants even listen. Some of the studies I saw were in Israel.

From the day I heard and saw the study I started touching the trees. As well as love for the world.

Well, because I wanted to tell you both. Because my friend from Israel who defends Palestine, and I cannot be critical of our reality like the Trees, and the indigenous people are being killed.

But one word made the agent wake up.

I can avoid reality television whenever I want to demonstrate one. The only thing I can see, in my reality, is that the sea came almost close to home, and I can’t fight the sea.

Now what I can do is admire nature, and I can even plant to try to balance nature. It is observing how a nation is a form of prison, of distancing itself from others.

Any struggle is to free ourselves from our mind. It’s holding us back from compassion.

Just as my Russian friend does not defend his country’s war. As a man I met last year who is in the Czech army, he could perhaps be sent to defend Ukraine. He explained Zelensky’s hypocritical story to me.

Just as many Jewish friends don’t like Netanyahu, and few Palestinians are from Hamas

So, like my Jewish friend who defends Peace, like my Russian friend who doesn’t want to destroy Ukraine, I would never go to war, and I understand how indigenous people have always respected nature.

So I stay close to the Trees, I try to hear their peace. All we can do is plant ourselves on the street, at home and know that our fight is to understand that our born war is meaningless. It was always about economics

Our destruction of our land is not about the nation, it is about the selfish people of money, and they don’t even realize how all of nature is changing, everyone in this world.

I think this is when we should be together with nature. So we can live. Because if we don’t help the earth and nature, human beings won’t even exist

Love,
Jules