Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 August 1936
spiritual environmental facts
In fact, the environmental crisis is related to the crisis of aesthetics, crisis of social cohesion and the crisis of spiritual values.
philosophy world today
All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.
country america world
If happiness was in money or power, then America should be the happiest country in the world, but it is not.
soil stories continuum
We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story.
morning childhood fatherhood
That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.
two people one-day
We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.
perfect quality painting
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.
journey together walks
I and a friend of mine called Mannon talked together, and we both decided to walk this journey.
real buddhism world
That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
world path expenses
I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.
war personal-transformation political
Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
water three dry
Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.
age nine kind
So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.
attitude war animal
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.