SIMPLICITY The journey to wholeness A Buddhist story relates the life of the great saint Nagarjuna who moved around naked except for a loincloth and, incongruously, a golden begging bowl gifted to him by the King, who was his disciple. One night he was about to lie down to sleep among the ruins of an [...]
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Thomas Merton’s life of voluntary simplicity and contemplation
ENGAGED SIMPLICITY Living a life of voluntary simplicity and contemplation "Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts." – Thomas Merton In a world of ever-increasing activity where we are expected to [...]
Structuring your life through voluntary simplicity
A DICHOTOMY OF DESIRES Structuring your life through voluntary simplicity to come to an integral wholeness "There's a couple of hazards in Voluntary Simplicity. One is arrogance. Another is success (artistic, commercial, personal) which leads to temptations which lead back again to Involuntary Complexity." – Stewart Brand, The Co-Evolution Quarterly, Summer 1977 While browsing [...]
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