The Phantom Planter

 You know your selling a good mattress when the customer does a 200 mile round trip just to buy from you. This lady had already bought one of the HoneyB Galaxy pillowtops from me many years ago and said she wouldn't buy another mattress other than this and she wouldn't buy from anyone else other than myself. Her whole family she said is sleeping in a mattress from myself. I believe there are 2 types of money to be made out there. lucky money and unlucky money.  Most of my life I made unlucky money, to be honest I conned so many people in the past selling all my dodgy goods, I've even got a criminal record for deception! Business is the biggest lying game in the world is what my Delboy Dad always said. My deceptive level of selling was nothing on my Delboy Dad though!  He was the master at that and was pretty famous in Belfast among the underworld circles. He had enthusiasm like no one I've ever seen! Later on in my spiritual path I learned that enthusiasm is one of our

 Good morning guys, Making one last push here to try and reach our fundraising target for 5k to help setup Northern Irelands first native Irish community orchard. We've raised 3.4k so far and thanks to all thats supported us, I know times are tight and really appreciate your donations no matter how small. Never would have thought it back when I was up to my neck wheeling and dealing selling all the dodgy goods of the day that I'd be setting up a community orchard. Someone thats known me all my life said to me in temper awhile back that they dont believe I've changed at all and that I'm still a scumball. It didn't really come as a shock as I know many from my dodgy past probably can't believe themselves that I've truly changed. I can't believe it myself, 20 years ago I did not envision this life at all.  My soul and consciousness is maturing, I see life and the world differently now.  Please do support this amazing project for everyone to enjoy on the lin

 This is how your bare root fruit trees will come. Ring around your local nurseries today and see if they are stocking any. They are cheap and easy to plant.  It's that time of year again that I go on a phantom Planting binge. Used to be a drink and drug binge but now it's a tree planting binge. Leveling up with my soul debt with nature.     With the festive season coming around the world is being plunged into a mass of consumption at the expense of mother nature. Everything we use comes from nature. Maybe we should all try and give back this year and plant some trees.   For anyone that doesn't know the cranes in the background is Harland and Wolf where they built the Titanic..  Let's start a Titanic Tree Challenge!  #phantomplanter #titanicchallenge #Titanic

 This morning in my meditation it just came to me how much Buddhism has given me the mental and physical space to be able to offer, to even have the capacity in my mind to think for the greater good and to have the physical health to carry it out was not possible aiming for me king rat on the monopoly board! When I was locked in my own money driven greedy world the space in my mind was not there to offer any sort of help to nature, the world or the people around me.  I was caught up in so many self created problems. Like a spider caught in his own web is a person driven by fierce cravings is what the Buddha says. Being caught in my cravings for money and self gratification was destroying my physical health at the same time too. The last thing ever on my mind was planting a tree or helping the elderly . I was suffering the results of my own karma. I heard a Guru say the other day that what we see in the world is our own karma being played out. The world is the cinema screen and our mind

 A bit of a strange story for you guys. This is a pic of an apple tree we phantom planted 3 years ago, it was a memorial apple tree for the family in the pic. At this location we have around 20 other phantom planted fruit trees and we positioned this one nicely inline with the rest of the trees. I came back a few weeks later to check on the trees and this one was missing and my first thought was it got ripped out! But then as I walked on up a bit someone had moved the tree up into the bank a bit. This had me baffled. I was wondering what is going on here!! It was moved and was perfectly replanted and to this day is thriving and the family go to see the tree often. At this spot in South Belfast there is lots of old apple trees lining the bank and just a couple of years ago I learned that these were planted by another phantom planter some 40 years ago! As I was phantom planting one day a lady came out and said you've not been the only phantom planter to have been around here and went

 Chapter 20 - Slowly I was becoming an alcoholic With the type of money I was making and the lifestyle I was living at around the age of 20 or so I noticed more and more that I would be drinking daily. I could have spent the whole day in the bar playing pool and working too, as I was in the bar it was the perfect place for wheeling and dealing knocking out contraband. I always had a runner with me who would drive me around or be out delivering for me. The bar I used to always hang out in was right next to the Indian where my right hand man Butler worked at, so between the bar and the Indian lots of deals were going down daily. If I was beginning too have too much cash on me Butler would have came and collected some of it and put it by for me. Then after the bar it was up to the Indian for a feast and more beer, its amazing these little demons back then were slowly getting their claws into me. I also smoked a lot of cigarettes and took the odd hard drug back then also, but I was more a