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Health Dictionary on Plant alchemy plant alchemy (spagyrics): A form of herbalism based on astrologic and alchemic (parachemical) principles. One of the major goals of alchemy, a mystical art, was to find the elixir of life: a panacea that could make humans immortal or semidivine. Plant alchemy holds that three essentials - termed Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt - constitute the basis of all matter. , Sulfur is the masculine world soul, Mercury the feminine vital power (prana), and Salt the material vehicle. Spagyrists seek to extract these essentials from plants for use as remedies. (See also: Plant alchemy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)
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Enlightenment Dictionary on Enlightenment of plants Enlightenment of plants (Jpn.: somoku-jobutsu) Also, enlightenment of insentient beings. The enlightenment of grass, trees, rocks, the land itself, or anything else that has neither emotion nor consciousness. The doctrine that insentient beings can attain Buddhahood derives from T'ien-t'ai's doctrine of three thousand realms in a single moment of life. One of the component principles of this doctrine is the realm of the environment, or the insentient objective world. The doctrine teaches the mutually inclusive relationship of living beings and their environments, or that of sentient and insentient beings, thereby revealing that both manifest the same state of life. Therefore, when living beings manifest the state of Buddhahood, their environment simultaneously manifests the state of Buddhahood as well. In The Diamond Scalpel, Miao-lo (711-782) refuted the arguments of Ch'eng-kuan, the fourth patriarch of the Chinese Flower Garland (Hua-yen) school, who asserted that insentient beings do not possess the Buddha nature. Miao-lo wrote, "A plant, a tree, a pebble, a speck of dust-each has the Buddha nature, and each is endowed with cause and effect and with the function to manifest and the wisdom to realize its Buddha nature." (See also: Enlightenment of plants, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)
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Enlightenment Dictionary on Planting the seeds of Buddhahood Planting the seeds of Buddhahood (Jpn.: geshu) Also, sowing the seeds of Buddhahood. One of the three benefits described in T'ien-t'ai's teachings: the benefits of sowing, maturing, and reaping the seeds of Buddhahood. The process of attaining Buddhahood is compared to that of cultivating plants. In this regard, Nichiren (1222-1282) states, "The Lotus Sutra is like the seed, the Buddha like the sower, and the people like the field". In teaching people, the Buddha begins by sowing the seeds of Buddhahood in their lives. The phase of sowing is divided into two stages: First, the Buddha causes the people to hear his teaching, and second, he leads them to take faith in it. These are termed respectively "sowing the seeds by letting one hear the teaching" (Jpn mompogeshu ) and "sowing the seeds by leading one to arouse faith in the teaching" (hosshin-geshu). There are cases in which a person takes faith immediately upon hearing the teaching. There are also cases in which someone hears the teaching and later takes faith. In either case, the Buddha's teaching has the power to influence one's life, whether or not one takes faith in it immediately. In The Annotations on "The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra," Miao-lo (711-782) states: "Whether one accepts or rejects the teaching, it enters one's ears and one thus establishes a bond with it. And then, though one may comply with or go against it, in the end one will be able to achieve liberation because of this bond." "Sowing the seeds by letting one hear the teaching" in this sense means that simply by hearing the Law one forms the cause, or seed, for attaining Buddhahood eventually, even if one should reject it initially. See: Sowing maturing and harvesting (See also: Planting the seeds of Buddhahood, Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment, Buddhism Enlightenment Dictionary)
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Theosophy Dictionary on Agnus-Castus Plant Agnus-Castus Plant A species of Vitex, a willow-like tree sometimes called the chaste tree (from hagnos chaste vs agnos willow-like) . "Prometheus is represented as crowned with the Agnus-Castus plant (logos), the leaves of which formed the Crown of the Victors in the 'Agonia' of the Olympic games; . . . This Agnus-Castus plant was used also in the fete of the Thesmophoria, in honour of Demeter -- the law -- 'nomos' -- bringer, whose priestesses slept on its leaves as encouraging chaste desires. In Christian times this custom survived among Nuns, who used to drink a water distilled from its leaves, and Monks used knives with handles made of its wood with the same intention of encouraging chastity" (BCW 9:267). (also BCW 10:90) (See also: Agnus-Castus Plant, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary)
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Social Studies Dictionary - Distribution of Plants & Animals Definition and meaning of Distribution of Plants & Animals Distribution of Plants & Animals (Ecosystems) - [World Geography] Ecosystems are a key element in the viability of Earth as a human home. Populations of different plants and animals that live and interact together are called a community. When such a community interacts with the other three components of the physical environment (atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere), the result is an ecosystem. Earth's environments form a mosaic produced by regions of distinct ecosystems which vary in size, shape, and complexity. They exist at a variety of scales from local (a single stand of cedar trees) to larger areas (a beach). Larger scale ecosystems form continent-wide belts, such as the steppe. As one moves from east to west across Texas, one moves from ecosystem to ecosystem, from forest to savanna to grassland to desert, each with a different complex of plants, animals, and soil types produced by different climatic elements. (Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University ) Also see these pages: Social Studies, Social Studies Sitemap, History, History Sitemap
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Social Studies Dictionary - Distribution of Plants & Animals Definition and meaning of Distribution of Plants & Animals Distribution of Plants & Animals (Ecosystems) - [World Geography] Ecosystems are a key element in the viability of Earth as a human home. Populations of different plants and animals that live and interact together are called a community. When such a community interacts with the other three components of the physical environment (atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere), the result is an ecosystem. Earth's environments form a mosaic produced by regions of distinct ecosystems which vary in size, shape, and complexity. They exist at a variety of scales from local (a single stand of cedar trees) to larger areas (a beach). Larger scale ecosystems form continent-wide belts, such as the steppe. As one moves from east to west across Texas, one moves from ecosystem to ecosystem, from forest to savanna to grassland to desert, each with a different complex of plants, animals, and soil types produced by different climatic elements. (Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University ) Also see these pages: Social Studies, Social Studies Sitemap, History, History Sitemap
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