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Understanding The Invisible Forces , By Pod Volunteers | ServiceSpace

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If we do something without understanding what it means to do nothing, then what we create is chaos, not harmony. Perhaps no one knew this better than a small-scale Japanese farmer named Masanobu Fukuoka. Around the time of World War 2, he was sitting under a tree one day when, in a flash, he had a realization that everything produced by the mind is inherently false. Inspired, he went around trying to share this insight with others -- and failed miserably. No one understood. Instead of giving up, this young man did something that at first glance seemed bizarre, but turned out to be brilliant. He turned his hand to farming. In doing so, he was choosing to manifest his insights in a way that everyday people could relate to. So Fukuoka took over his father's barren farm, and started experimenting with a technique he called "Do Nothing farming". By this, he meant that he would strive to minimize his physical footprint on the farm. "Let nature grow the plants," he said. And his job was to ge

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