Polls progress: Phase 6 campaign is ending. Phase 7 campaign is at its peak.
Natural farming, living, and well-being in harmony with nature is a mahodyamam in the making. This movement is led by practitioners for inducting more and more practitioners. Producers, service providers, entrepreneurs, enterprise workers, supply chain workers, and consumers. These are in the front. The willing movement workers become interns via successful immersion and induction. Interns graduate through apprenticeships into fellows, executives, and leaders, to be available to take the NF Movement forward in AP, India, and the World. Can we be them? Can we have more of them?
Vande Jagadgurum Buddham.
Buddha, the awakened, enlightened Siddhartha, is a wandering ascetic, monk. Achieved parinirvana – final release from conditioned existence. Meditation – with food, breath, and mind control, leads to appreciating the path(s) to liberation. With this appreciation, Buddha transcended his teachers Alara and Udaka. We are a dependent, impermanent non-self dot. A logical, emotional, spiritual label to an interconnected set of cells. We miss this essential point. Therefore, duhkha, suffering exists, with a cause, and with an end, with a path that leads to this end. Everything – physical or mental – is impermanent; and can cause suffering. This path is ashthang path – right view-understanding; right sankalp-resolve including being harmless, ahimsa and refraining from ill will to any being – thought, aspiration, motivation; right speech – abstaining from lying, divisive, abusive, idle talk, and truthful, reliable, pleasing; right behavioural conduct-action – abstaining from violence, killing, stealing, deceiving, misconduct; right livelihoods – just, non-violent; right effort – will, mind, heart, body in sync; right mindfulness; right samaadhi beginning with dhyaana. Can we get on this path? Buddham saranam gachchaami. Dharmam saranam gachchaami. Sangham saranam gachchaami. With all our six senses – eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind – sight, sound, odour, taste, touch, thoughts-words-chetana. With five aggregates – forms, images, sensations, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness.
Sangha has a ‘handbook’ – the concept, precepts, essential do’s and don’ts. Sangha travels and takes the movement forward. Sangha prepares unlearning-learning teachers, and facilitators to take charge. Sangha meets regularly and frequently, discusses, analyses, reflects, and communicates; consumes in harmony with nature; sweats; farms; shares; prepares for being ready; works together; supports each other; keeps records; tells stories; runs enterprises; sings hope, faith, promise, love, and coexistence; reiterates being together. Sanghachchatvam. Can’t we have one bowl and three robes?
Do we need to name a successor? Can the dispensation after us find the successor regime on its own? Can we not just keep working with our co-workers, with all the support we can give? Can’t they find ways forward on their own? Can’t they build their teams and co-workers? In the same vein, do we need to force fit sustainability and legacy? If an intervention makes sense, ways-how is established, will it not be maintained post-intervention? Won’t it go viral? Only the triggers for interventions may be required. Can we strategize, and seed these triggers? Apart from establishing the intervention(s).
Do we know ourselves? Are we travelling, and learning enough? Are we wealthy enough? Are we healthy enough? Are we stubborn enough? Are we tolerating enough? Are we humble? Are we wise? Can we invest in ourselves to know ourselves, to build ourselves, and be custodians of Sangha values, and nextgen resources?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, co-work, co-flow. With concomitant idiosyncrasies. In N? In chetanayoga for 7L.
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