Sacramento Sustainability Action Group
Connecting Sacramento's Sustainability Movement
This page came from the desire to harness some of the energy raised at the Sacramento Sustainability Symposium May 2008. This page is a tool for organizing future sustainability-related events. We subsequently are part of the Rising Tide North America network, which works to confront the root causes of climate change.
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Created: Jun 06, 2008
Updated: Nov 27, 2009
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Rob Grosche
economicsatyagraha
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I am an advocate for natural justice. The concept of natural justice is the basis for world wide, civil, human coexistence. Without acknowledging natural justice as an inherent human right, and placing it at the foundation of every action, environmental issues, hunger and wars will continue to dominate our planets future.
My main interest is in the formulation, finetuning and application of a concept, which is defined by the term:- Economic Satyagraha.
Economic Satyagraha basically is a blend of many ideologies which, to use the simplest term, strive to create a sustainable heaven on earth.
It focuses on building an inner strength, conviction and unshakeable degree of righteousness, which elevates its believers and practitioner to a "infinitely superior" moral plane, "compared to the one they had" Gandhi. before". This strength forms an ideology, which unites people to fosters and protect life on earth.
Economic Satyagraha believers and practitioners simply use their personal economic influence to make our planet a habitat, fit for all life. Far from being spineless, they take on the big issues like hunger, war and environmental mismanagement, by inspiring others, through personal actions, lobbing and economic actions.
http://www.i-optic.com/satyagraha/ link to unfinished book
http://qanda.abc.net.au/_Address-to-the-nation/VIDEO/753734/30560.html link to local governance issues.
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Flagged for Review Kemo about 1 month ago
Thank's for invitation. Gandhi said it the best: "We must be the change we wish to see in the World"
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Therein also lies another truth as expressed in the video. Anger is not violence. Anger is a motivator to do better, to obtain a state of internal and external peaceful equilibrium.
Whereas committing an act of violence is not anger. Instead it must be see for what it is namely:- blind hate which will fuel ever more escalating revengeful violence.
It takes an act of love to stop violence. Which in turn releases and channels anger into an act of love.
It’s so simple and so difficult all at the same time. |
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Hi Narda, thanks for your reply and below quote.
"Perhaps another, subtle, way of looking at it as suggested by the great contemporary of Aquinas, Ibn Arabi, who saw the state of
I agree ! just from a slightly different point of view.
"Anger stems from an inabillity to experience or bring-about a state of Divine Mercy (which is clear and comprehensible,
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Anger is an absense of equilibrium between what is and what could be :) |
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Yes, Rob, I agree with you.
Here is another, well-put-into-practice realization of that same matter. Whilst anger can never be eradicated from the human condition, it would be erroneous to make it a condition for vision or good action as may be implied in this clip. But I'm quite certain that Mr Sami Awad understands this very well. |
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Thank you for inviting me here, Rob,
and thank you for the very strong/bold Economic Satyagraha link which has the quote - "He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust." Aquinas, 1225-1274. Perhaps another, subtle, way of looking at it as suggested by the great contemporary of Aquinas, Ibn Arabi, who saw the state of anger as an inability to receive Divine Mercy...
So, yes, like you, I do find peace in writing yet it is by no means a sufficient substitute for the practice of seeing, admitting and accepting the human condition in myself and others...
I believe, that we, as an essentially conscious and spiritual beings could learn how to be moved to action by a clarity of vision, and that this kind of action is bound to be effective, good for all, as well as moral.
Ah! ...and I promise you, no one would really want to be anywhere near me if I enter the state you describe above ..."conviction and unshakable degree of righteousness"... :) :) not even myself... :) :)
With friendship
Narda
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Dear Rob, Have a look at our group Blue Mountains Permaculture. Ciao from M. |
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Dear Rob, Well I've just skimmed through your photos and read a bit about your interests... I gues the social entrenepeur (still havne't bothered to find a dictionary but I will) hasn't anything to do with socialites and musicians after all.
Rob I'm not into concepts of heaven and afterlife but I am iinterested in social justice, conflict resolution, empowerment for the disadvantages=social equity and the Buddhist ideas of right thought, right intention, right speech, right action, right profession etc. That's not to say that I am incapable of wrong doing or excess. I've just found that I enjoy life much much more now that I've passed some milestones.
There are some lovely landscape photographs Rob. Perhaps you would be interested in exhibiting? Ciao from Maryanne. |
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Hey there Rob. Sorry about the delay getting back. I couldn't open the PDF file for some reason, but read your "about" and I think that's all very true. We must change the inner space before what we create "out there" comes into balance. This journey we're on is so very big, with all it's drama. Sometimes I think; wouldn't it be nice if after one reaches a certain level of consciousness they would instantly find themselves on a planet of like-level persons and the planet was their direct reflection? Of course I think that during moments when it gets a little heavy and just before I get up and get back to work doing something to make this planet come into that reality. Thanks Bob, for the way you are spending your life, Dan.
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Hi Rob~ your idea of Economic Satyagraha really resonates with me~
Sincerely~ Tori |
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Rob,
Hi there Rob, I am just getting back to people after the weekend though I do need to note that when I attempted to open your PDF book file the PDF writer came up but instead of the book coming up with it, the pages were blank, gray sheets and nothing else I tried it several times and that was all I could pull up. I don not know whether the issue is on my end or yours but my PDF pulls up other files with no difficulty. It is good to hear from you and do stay in touch some of the primary principles to consider adopting across our civilization is that of the instillation of what I term universal or natural laws like that which you are discussing and I do see a lot of the kind of thinking that you are doing beginning to develop across the land with many people so I would say you are right on track. The ultimate issue shall be just how to blend all that which is now and in the coming future be envisioned into one cohesive unit for projection across society. Everyone’s input in the process is of value and I will tell you that there are very interesting times coming. Regards, Randy |
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Thanks Roger for your invitation.
I'm in the middle of two major initiatives. so I only have time to glance at anything. I did try the link, but it didn't work. sounds like a good direction you're in. Marianne Larned |
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http://www.i-optic.com/satyagraha
Feel free to read my book Economic Satyagraha (in progress) at the above link. |