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The Kitchen God is one of the most important of domestic gods that protect the hearth and family.
On the 23rd/24th of the 12th month of the lunar calendar, a week before Chinese New Year, the Kitchen God returns to heaven to report on the activities of every household to the Jade Emperor. People will make offerings to the Kitchen God on this day so that he’ll put in a good word for them. As a result, the Jade Emperor will not punish or may even reward the family for the coming year.
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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
More on contemplative ecology from Thoreau→
↝ https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/walden-pond.html ↜
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Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.
~Laozi
Tao Te Ching, Verse 16
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