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
people healthy needs
People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
animal long needs
It doesn't matter where or how it is grown as long as it is packaged in plastic, put on the supermarket shelves, and bought as a commodity. In the New Story food is not commodity. Food is sacred. We need to be connected with soil, with animals that we take care of.
needs moments here-and-now
We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.
running achievement needs
It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.
needs sufficiency
We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.
addition capacity demand domestic firm fresh gross grown happening prices remain
There's not much fresh capacity addition happening and demand has always grown 1.3 times the real gross domestic product. So prices should remain firm or go up.
monks mother restless
I was a restless child. I did not go to school. My mother used to go to the monks of the Jain religion, and I would go with her.
eat items list outside
My mother, for example, made a list of 50 items which she could eat in her life, and she would not eat anything outside that list.
almost indian mile risk slight walked
With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
attend gives inner time
This gives us more time to attend the inner need.
arlington ended grave john kennedy month national walked walking
Kennedy had been assassinated a month or so before. So we walked to the grave of John Kennedy and ended our walking symbolically at the Arlington National Cemetery.
extreme grew
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.
higher standards
Some of our standards are higher than the U.S.
basic carry small
They have only handwritten manuscripts, because you can write very small and then you can carry the most basic manuscripts with you.