Shramadana: Personality and Group Awakening through Shramadana
Theory Summary
How the Shramadana Camps help to achieve the objectives of personality awakening promoted by the Sarvodaya movement can be seen from the following:
Personality and Group Awakening through Shramadana includes:
- Repairing and building tanks, irrigation canals and wells
- Soil Conservation, clearing land for farming
- Cutting access road to villages
- Construction of school buildings, toilets, community centers, rural housing
within...
Shramadana Camps
where, as a result, there is...
Personality Awakening
1. Loving Kindness
2. Compassion
3. Sympathetic Joy
4. Equanimity
and...
Group Awakening
1. Sharing
2. Pleasant language
3. Joint work
4. Equality
Source
Communications Systems for Planning Change - from the Chapter entitled - 'A Buddhist Approach to Development - A Sri Lankan Endeavour' pps. 48/49.
Placed on the Communication Initiative site November 11 2003
Last Updated November 11 2003
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The information here is a start, but there is much, much more worth learning about regarding the Sarvodaya Movement. Check www.sarvodayausa.org for further research and opportunities. Happy to discuss this in detail. Rick Brooks, UW-Madison rbrooksster@gmail.com 608-265-4077 March, 2008