Minneapolis -I’m off to Dhamma Pakasa (the Illinois Vipassana Meditation Center- shown below) for most of the month of September… and maybe longer. What will I be doing there? Well, if you haven’t already, read my Long Essay about Vipassana Meditation. I will spend the first 10-day course serving as center staff (hopefully in the kitchen!) and will sit another 10-day course following. Then we’ll see about staying longer. Apparently I am the only confirmed staff volunteer at this point for the first course, so looks like I’ll be busy until it’s my turn to sit!
Further installments of my State of the World Address, although mostly written, are being postponed indefinitely until I get around to finishing them. More than likely, I will have a few things to say about my experience at the meditation center that I will want to get posted first, while still fresh.
In the meantime, I have recently discovered a website (a movement, really) that almost uncannily addresses the very things I was planning to say in the further extensions of my State of the World address. It is an example of the kind of thinking that I have seen emerging as I have traveled around our globe and thought about it’s future. It’s called WorldChanging.com, and you should check it out. It is about the convergence of the organic and the digital, nature and technology. It is about Designing for Life, and Cultivating the Garden. It’s about the absolute necessity of weaving core values such as compassion, tolerance, sustainability, innovation, and joy into our engineered future. It’s about the new conditions emerging in our world that provide a new context for hope.
See you in October!
Nate
Read the WorldChanging.com Manifesto.
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