Our Grand Plan of building an International Intentional Community in IndiaThe Grand Plan
We are for Intentional Community Living, Eco-Village formation, Environmental Friendly Housing Solutions, Organic and Natural Farming, Permaculture, Forestation, Renewable Source of Energy, Sustainable Technology, Pollution Free Living, Eco-Friendly Products, Resource Sharing, Conscious Living and School Free Learning. We are towards building a group/intentional community/ which would be based on the concept of Resource Based Economy with Hybrid technologies with in. (A hybrid technology is a technology that uses two or more distinct power sources to run.) "Humans are the only species who pay to exist on this planet and hold personal property and may be this is the root cause of all their problems!" We believe that great ideas are necessary for social change but it is being increasingly necessary to experiment with those ideas in real life, so that people can believe in those ideas. Also it is necessary to preserve the great ideas into a culture so that all is not lost in a chit -chat but transmitted in generations. Until we give an institutional form to our concepts, nothing can be realized or preserved in real sense. Having said that, we have planned about building a community which will serve the following functions: 1) Be a real showcase to people that a money-less, non-competitive , fully cooperative and scientific society is possible. 2) It will provide the community dwellers with all kinds of life serving resources and an environment for further development of their self and will also provide challenges and purposes in their lives. 3) It will provide the future kids of the commune with all the tools and environment so that they can become problem solvers for society and preserve our ideas in this world when we are gone and also will improve them. 4) It will provide a training ground for the visitors so that they become equipped to solve their own problems without being dependent on Govt or Corporations. 5) It will provide ideas to world leaders , so that they can implement the same on a larger scale. Our proposed Eco-Village community will have all the necessary facilities like energy, food, housing ,medical care transportation and they will be built based on what is best available within that locality and what is most sustainable during that time. Sustainability will be given priority. Work will be mostly on voluntary basis. Our prime focus will be to simplify , standardize and automate all processes as much as possible. However some work might be done on a contractual basis in the beginning. Education will be of a completely different kind. The entire community will be "the School" for kids. Almost all cases , ranging from agriculture, to manufacturing, to architecture to research work in the community will be available for learning in real terms. Such will be the impact of the educational system of our community, that ,In future, the kids might get involved in actual designing or redesigning of our community. Our Eco Village Community will also engage the dwellers in exciting, adventurous and challenging activities so that they not only live a healthy life but they also live a meaningful life. We will include all kinds of cooperative , yet enjoyable sports . Hiking, biking, trekking, rafting, rowing a boat, camp building will be some of the many such activities which will fill the daily lives of the dwellers. This Intentional Community would exist on the idea of Resource Based Economy on a small scale. RBE = "Sharing or distribution of our resources without weighing a person under any scale of benefits, profits, asset, liability and contribution of quantity or quality. It is a management system for distribution of resources for our needs" More information on Resource Based Economy can be found on this website http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/resource-based-economy We would try to eliminate the need of money as much as possible. There shall be no monetary transaction among the community members. "Money should be dissolved. It has done tremendous harm to humanity – now it is time to say good-bye to it, because money can be accumulated.Man is here to rejoice, to live a life as beautifully, as peacefully, as comfortably as possible. I am absolutely for those progressive inventions which can make man happier, live longer, be younger, healthier, and which make his life more of a play, fun, and less of a torturous journey from the cradle to the grave."— Osho, The Greatest Challenge:The Golden Future "Question to Osho: Your commune in America Oregon, has been described as both, as an experiment of an alternative society and as an experiment of a real communist. Would you agree?" Reply: "Yes, I agree. I agree totally… It was an experiment for both an alternative society and as a higher quality of communism." "We abandoned money in the society, in the commune. Money should not be used in the commune. You use whatever commune can supply, and commune will try to give you as much as you need. If you want to give money, you give money to the commune. But you cannot purchase anything in the commune for money. And by simply removing money from the commune, there was nobody rich, nobody poor. Sometimes, small measurements can create great revolutions. All that is needed is that money should not be used. Then how you can make somebody poor and somebody rich? It is the money. Once there is no money, all are alike. And the commune supplies to everybody whatever is his need." --Osho, The Last Testament Whatever we need in this world, whatever, We'll work our best indeed, And take whatever we need, We'll share everything we have together. Come, let's share everything together. Whatever we need in this world, whatever, We'll make it all if we work together. Why go on shopping rampages? Why do we slave for mere wages? We'll share what we have together. Come, let's share everything together." From Book: Beyond the Land of Hattamala by Badal Sircar "The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society”. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, “Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.” - Jean Jacques Rousseau, (On the Origin of the Inequality of Mankind) "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"-- Jiddu Krishnamurti "The idea of a commune (intentional community) is beautiful: people living together in a non possessive way,neither possessing things nor possessing persons; people living together, creating together, celebrating together, and still allowing each one his own space; people creating a certain climate of meditativeness, of love, and living in that climate".-Osho "The day will come when the idea of community (intentional community) will spread through the world. Gather together those of you who share high ideals. Pool your resources. Buy land in the country. A simple life will bring you the inner freedom. Harmony with nature will bring you happiness and peace of mind known to few city dwellers. In the company of other seekers of the truth it will be easier for you to live in meditation and collective unity." Parmahansa Yogananda -- Indian Mystic, Author of world famous book “Autobiography of a Yogi” "When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you, it is you who belongs to this land."— Native American Spirit 'WHEN you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.' – J.Krishnamurti “The commune has a future. A commune means many independent individuals, not belonging to each other in the old ways of family, tribe, religion, nation. Only in one way are they related to each other: that is they are all independent. They respect your independence and the same they expect from you: to respect their independence. That is the only relationship, the only friendship, the only thing that is a cementing force in a commune: that we respect each other’s individuality, independence. The other’s way of life, his style of life is absolutely accepted, respected. The only condition is that nobody is allowed to interfere with anybody else in any sense”. -- OSHO : From Personality to Individuality |
List of Eco Villages and Intentional Communities Around the world
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