Guest guest Posted September 23, 2001 Report Share Posted September 23, 2001 What is Needed to Begin and Sustain a Rural Community" A major consideration I think we should establish is that the rural community model is primarlily householder modelled. For it to go forward it cannot be based on single person no children dynamics. If it works for married persons it will also naturally work easier for the single persons. As a direction I would suggest we move towards establishing married persons on the land in a sustainable way. Some considerations are: 1. It should be livelihood based. The participants can obtain their life needs and reasonable wants from the system. 2. The participants are protected from victimisation by dint of weakend sadhana. 3. Land holding is based on farming practices and not on Spiritual prowess. 4. Back off zones are established to cushion the participants from intolerant management groups. 5. To be sustainable and have relevance to the cow conference it must be based on ox dependancy. 6. It should be based on the need to bring in the major income for the family. 7. It should be repeatable. These are just a few thown in comments to help with the momentum. One major conflict area which we have to sort out is are we looking at a single person and peasant model or are we looking at a 21st century we can live that way model. My personal warning is that if we go hard into the self sufficent keep away from making money model we will go nowhere as we have gone nowhere over the past many years. We should be thinking that this model must fulfill my financial needs I am currently getting from other non cow related work. ys syam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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