What is in the me that may thwart community?

Be aware of what resonates the must. May you be thwarting the community?

• Rigidity — hmmm. A pattern in my response. The freedom of mind, heart. The letting go — these are all so important to let the self-organzing energies of the universe work with and through us. To become partners with this force — oo, la, la!

• A restrictive vision. Deny things instead of adding new elements to life vision.

 

• Selfishness and lack of clarity will always be harmful to any organism. Our consumer behaviors as well as our lack of unity in our daily actions will put the community in awe. Sharing our best traits will help us evolve faster.

• Poor attention to physical health (not fitness); lack of rest and recreation leads to a lot of downtime due to illness.

• Physical ill-health seems to take a large tool on the energy supply that is available to be put into community. We have members who are dealing with forms of addiction which thwart them. But I’m not sure whether these are outer or inner.

• Consumer behaviour may be a thwart factor as members, residents and visitors of the community have a whole life living under a system that creates addiction to consumption and place our happiness in the outer world and not in the inner world. Have the capacity to let go this addiction will a tough task to many people participating in the community and the process may be painful. This is applied to many other areas, not only consumption, but we are talking about being raised in a culture of “having” and not in a culture of “Being”. Our relation to money and possessions will be also a thwarting factor and a process that we will have to deal with very carefully in order to find balance between Yin & Yang economies.

• This is an interesting question. We have some obese members of the communtiy who nonetheless participate in every aspect of community life, from taking long walks to the workdays. I do think we tend to do too much driving around — we choose to send our children to schools far from home — private schools, and the kids all go to different ones!) for example, that may undermine some of our sustainability goals as well as the community building for our children. The kids are often not around, for example, and when they are they may be tired after a long day away. But we all want what is best for our kids, right? I think this is an area where we need to have more community discussion

• Maybe that our own success forces us to try to do more and more, to feel more, to do more things, and this ends up damaging out health and lowering our capacities to some equlibrium point. Living slowly is porbably we still have to learn about, and our body would serve our mind and heart better.

• When individual members of the community consistently act in ways that are not aligned with the values of the community then it may create distrust unless. This individual may be isolated from the community if a minority and the broader community does not tolerate the action.

• Lack of time for participation