Watch a fly slowly dying on the windowsill.
Watch its movement and how long it takes
for it to become completely still.
Thank the fly, in your mind,
for showing what you may go through
one day.
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100 Acorns
It's been 44 years since my book of conceptual instructions, GRAPEFRUIT was first published in 1964.
On 15 June 1968, John Lennon & I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events'.
In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 ACORNS.
Starting on the 40th anniversary of the Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008, I will publish here an 'Acorn' every day for 100 days.
After each day of sharing the instructions, you should feel free to question, discuss, and/or report what your mind tells you.
I'm just planting the seeds.
Have fun.
Love, yoko
June 2008
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This is such an intriguing idea,and yet no one has commented yet.
although I prefer not to look at flies when they die,I have watched other insects as they struggle in their last moments.
(I always found it strange that so many insects have such short lifespans,and yet in such a quick time manange to mate etc.)
watching them die,
how they fall on their backs and try desperately to get upright,
only to walk a few more steps before falling again for good.
There is a fascination and fear that comes from watching any creature die or considering death in any sense.the knowledge and realization that our present bodies are mortal and temporary.
there is indeed something we can learn from the fly.
Please do not kill any living thing just to watch the process of dying.
Mahatma would be disappointed.
I've had to do that at times.
I'll honor that thought, Yoko.
I can't bear the thought of watching anything die. I can't watch the suffering, it rips me apart inside. I can't watch the faces of the starving and sick and not have everything in me scream bloody murder about the injustice in this world.
I wouldn't watch the fly die. I would crush the fly in mercy so the suffering would end. I would feel sad about it, but I would know it was right, and when my time comes I hope they don't let me suffer. I wouldn't want to be crushed but I hope they will make me as comfortable as they can.
Its probably is just on its way to its next life as butterfly. As Lennon said dieing was just getting out of one car and into another.
When I look out of the window, I tend to look down just to look upon dusty bugs. Ancient & long-dead. I like to examine them & you can't help but wonder what their last hours were like..what they were thinking..
There is something there that we can learn from the fly.
Death being just a part of life. All lives.
Not necessarily The End...
today
i watched a psychiatrist
swat a cockroach
i said "ohhhh...."
he said "is that good or bad?"
i said "i don't know
but
i wouldn't want to be your patient."
The transformation process,
from life to death,
from death to life,
spirals of light,
new life.
Choice.
LOVE AND LIGHT
I have seen this before, and many times I have to turn my head because seeing something suffer is something I just can not do. I guess since I have seen death amongst my family and friends. People who were too young, some of them suffering, fighting to keep going. I thank you for your frank idea, but I have to say it disturbs me, because I am no fly, just flying around until I die.
The flies are continually dying
at our windows, cause we put some poison there,
that looks like butterflies,
and when the flies crawl over it,
they're done.
And I thank them for that.
So I wonder
what will be 'my' poison.
with each breath we get closer to the end, or is it only the beginning?
Came home last night. Two neighbours standing on the porch watching a spider make its web. It was a good web and they described the building as beautiful. I likewise pronounced the web a good web and said i hope it stays out here.
Choose what you watch with care.
The spider might yet introduce me to a dying fly. i don't expect it to have the same production value as web building.
Walk a dewy meadow and count the spider webs made vivid by the sun.
Appreciate fragility for i knew an old woman who swallowed a fly. I don't why she swalowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die. No perhaps about it methinks but the process in getting there might mean something
Death is with us every day, isn't it.
I believe by thinking about it, it helps acclimatise to it. But not to think about it all too much either!
I observe and take it in, every part of life is amazing if you can find a way to view it from a different perspective. That is why I love art. It enriches the every day, in so many ways.
Joy.
There was a fruit fly in my bathroom tonight as I went to brush my teeth. We've had a fruit fly problem for a bit now and I've grown weary of them. I killed them with bug spray and I watched them walk around. I didn't think much of it.
Then, tonight in my bathroom, I asked myself "what's wrong with it?" so I tried to make it fly again and he just stuck to my finger and struggled. I blew at it but it wouldn't fly. Then I realized this must be its death. I felt sorry for it.
Earlier in the month I told myself "Everything should have the chance to live its life." Then in my house, during the fly problem, I told myself I have just cause to kill them. But is it truly or is that my selfishness? Do I kill it just because it's an annoyance? Does that make me arrogant towards life?
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