Recommend:Sarvodaya Means "Everybody Wakes Up"
An Essay on The Great Turning by Joanna Macy
EarthLight Magazine #45, Spring 2002
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[excerpt] I return from Sri Lanka where I saw how a country, devastated by civil war, can proceed to reunite and rebuild. Sarvodaya -- the name means "everybody wakes up" -- is a Buddhist-inspired community development movement active in well over 12,000 villages in all parts of the island republic. Its campaign for peace, moving into high gear with the fragile but promising ceasefire signed in January, aims to restore not only interethnic harmony, but also the bases for economic wellbeing. These two are inseparable in Sarvodayan eyes, along with respect for the land and for the human spirit. Having loved and learned from this movement for twenty-six years, I flew to be on hand for the event of March 15th, a mammoth peace meditation kicking off their "village-to-village, heart-to-heart" link-up program. I come back with these lessons: ... [end of excerpt]
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