How Zen Meditation is Causing Global Climate Change

All right, could be that title is a bit much. It may be that zen meditation isn't the biggest factor in global climate change, but I am sure it's contributing to it. How did I arrive at that conclusion-well: people like to mow their lawns. Here in the Midwest I would say it's a major fixation of some individuals, and if they complain loudly, it usually will become the "major fixation" of the city or town they live in.
I don't think it's the lawn they like to mow or any thing about grass cutting, the majority of the population could do with-out it just fine. The Aesthetic perspective that is looks better just isn't true. In fact long grass has grace in the way the ends taper off to a point, or the way it waves in the wind. Some folks say it's for the physical activity, I can think of many other ways a body could get active with out mowing. It could be for the fact that it is uncomfortable to walk in when it's high, or attracts the bugs, in fact I would say those two would be the best excuse, but what accounts for the person who mows a lawn nobody will use.
It all comes down to one thing and that's zen meditation. The mowing pattern, the mower hum, and the steady slow pace it takes to cut grass properly is a formula to induce meditation. It's the good feeling they get from the effects of meditation that they associate with a clean cut lawn. So when they see an uncut area they have an uncomfortable agitated feeling and instead of realizing that the uncut lawn is upsetting their zen conditioning, they think of it as a civic aesthetic violation, and they want it cut. So if we could attain our meditative frame of mind in other ways we wouldn't have everybody and there cat, out using an gas engine mower. That, I've heard, will put out more polluting exhaust than a car, and at the same time the extra flora would fix carbon and output oxygen.
I must say, or state or impress upon you that I am a hypocrite. I have cut grass for all of the above reasons and more. That's not to say I don't loath mowing, I do, it's just that I have to live in a social frame work that I'm uncomfortable with. In time the lawn I mow will be converted to very low maintenance gardens, and the only mowing will be for hay.

Ian