Hi Nathan,
I haven't thought about what you call "the tower of power" since my subarctic living days and, yes, that stuff has to get chopped down in the hole with an axe when it gets too tall in the stall...

(unless one built the two-hole wide wonder and sit on yonder other side till spring.

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I know my post here is possibly borderline from the annals of the dork-police, but I'm reminded of a fresh spring where my mom would take me to collect spring water to bring home as a treat (we lived in the burbs, had tap water...) right in the city park. We just filled up jugs of sweet spring water. So sweet.
And now, how insane: living beings (including humans) having to feed their young synthetics and dying from this.
Just like how meditation is incremental practice, so too its foundation in ethical, sensible conduct in incremental steps. So simple
Let me be the first to say I've had countless bottled beverages and that video by Chris Jordan is the first time I really see what my mind and actions amount to and that the simplest best action for me would be just to only fill up a glass bottle for myself of tap/spring water (maybe some lemon and maple); this is not an edict for anyone else.
I just am looking at what I do, why I do it, am I addicted or composed with my senses, and what results from my own mind and my own actions.
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All mental phenomena have mind as their forerunner...speak or act with an impure mind is to be hounded by its seed-to-fruit consequences