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Earth Pilgrim - Conversations with Satish Kumar (Hardcover, 1st)
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Earth Pilgrim - Conversations with Satish Kumar (Hardcover, 1st)
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Satish Kumar has been a pilgrim ever since at the age of eight he
joined the brotherhood of wandering Jain monks in his native India.
Later he walked the length and breadth of India with Gandhi's
successor Vinoba Bhave, persuading landowners to donate a portion
of their lands to the poor; and in the 1960s he made an 8,000-mile
pilgrimage for peace, which included walking from India over the
Himalayas to Paris via Moscow. In Earth Pilgrim, Satish draws on
this personal experience and also his understanding of the
spiritual traditions of both East and West. The book takes the form
of conversations between Satish and others about the inner and
outer aspects of pilgrimage: to be a pilgrim is to be on a path of
adventure, to move out of our comfort zones, to let go of our
prejudices and preconditioning, to make strides towards the
unknown. If we want to tread the pilgrim's path, we need to go
beyond ideas of good and evil, and to be dedicated to our quest -
to our natural calling. We need to shed not just our unnecessary
material possessions, but also our burdens of fear, anxiety, doubt
and worry; in this way we can find spiritual renewal and enter on
the great adventure into the unknown. Paradoxically, being on a
pilgrimage doesn't necessarily mean travelling from one place to
another - it means a state of mind, a state of consciousness, a
state of fearlessness. Satish believes that at this stage of human
history we now need a new kind of pilgrim, unattached to any form
of dogma - 'Earth Pilgrims', who are concerned with this world, not
the next, and who are seeking a deep commitment to life in the here
and now, upon this earth, in this world. We need to realise that we
are all connected, and through that connectivity we become
pilgrims.
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