Excerpt from the book, The Sage Farmer that was featured in one of the Seeds + T newsletter: "If your administrator is provided with funds," he said, "the people will set their hearts on getting the money. The villagers will doubt the honesty of the local officials, and the officials will find fault with the people and in the this mutual distrust and contention the work of the restoration will fail, the state of affairs will become worse."
Does Kinjiro here put his finger on a cause for faliure of many projects undertaken with virtually unlimited funds? To cure poverty, Kinjiro believed, it is necessary to use the forces that poverty itself generates. Kinjiro went on to restore a large number of villages without seeking any external funding. I guess he nominated himself as a Generosity Entrepreneur, started with being extremely generous himself (with very little material resource), thereby inducing the same in others unlocking abundance that was previously unknown.
Some questions: 1) What are the forces that poverty (and any similar state) generates? 2) How could we practically explore the abundance that gets unlocked due to unconditional service and generosity? 3) If some kind of personal sacrifice is inevitable, how do we identify the kind of sacrifice that is right for each person?
On Jun 29, 2015 Ragunath Padmanabhan wrote:
Does Kinjiro here put his finger on a cause for faliure of many projects undertaken with virtually unlimited funds? To cure poverty, Kinjiro believed, it is necessary to use the forces that poverty itself generates. Kinjiro went on to restore a large number of villages without seeking any external funding. I guess he nominated himself as a Generosity Entrepreneur, started with being extremely generous himself (with very little material resource), thereby inducing the same in others unlocking abundance that was previously unknown.
An essay on the book is here.
Some questions: 1) What are the forces that poverty (and any similar state) generates? 2) How could we practically explore the abundance that gets unlocked due to unconditional service and generosity? 3) If some kind of personal sacrifice is inevitable, how do we identify the kind of sacrifice that is right for each person?