Life is easy.Why do we make it so hard?/Jon Jandai/TED×Talks
This is a 2011 TED talk by John Jandai, PUNPUN, an organic farm in Chiang Mai, an ancient city in the northern region of Thailand. The four things that were fears and worries in Bangkok, the capital of Thailand (food, clothing, shelter, and health) were no longer worries when I returned to a way of living close to nature. It became a very simple way of thinking and living, and life became more enjoyable.
Seeing this, I thought "I want to meet him someday" and "I want to meet him and actually touch the scenery" and searched for information. at the PUN PUN FARM workshop, foreigners and their families who were living in Bangkok and Chiang Mai at that time, and people from various countries including Thai people gathered and learned how to live in the nature. They learned how to live in nature. I attended the workshop to experience building a house made of natural materials, but it was a condensed version of what is necessary for living, such as yoga, cooking, water purification systems, composting, and farming. They were all given to us by nature and included things that we did not need to purchase.
These were encounters as if we knew we were walking toward physical and spiritual health before and since. Our ancestors taught us to live in harmony with nature, to live thanks to nature, and not to go against nature in order to live a healthy life. I will never forget the thoughts I had at that time and will always keep them in my heart.
The following is what I wrote down at that time.
June 2015
From Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Rocking on the Songteo
Less than 2 hours,
pun pun farm
I arrived at pun pun farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
What we can get from nature
What we can learn from nature
and everything else!
After yoga at 7am,
Garden beds/Composts
Practice to Joe's lecture.
Simple, easy, and for little money.
In the afternoon, I was looking forward to
Seedling/Seed saving
at PunPunFarm, the "seed bank.
How to get and save seeds,
how to make fertilizer, how to take cuttings, etc.
and how to make fertilizers, cuttings, etc. There is nothing new to buy.
Today, we will learn how to make drinkable water, how to make charcoal used in the system, how to make compost, how to make compost, etc,
charcoal making, composting toilets, kitchen stoves using rice husks, etc. One thing leads to another.
Using the soil from the land in the morning
Making sun-dried bricks
Making sun-dried bricks. Everyone stepped on the soil and rice husks and put them into the wooden frame.
These sun-dried bricks can be used not only for the frame but also for the formwork.
After that, we went to a house under construction nearby to learn how to make materials for clay walls, experience actually painting walls, and learn how to make clay pennants.
Even though the roof is slate and under construction, it is cool and clearly different from the outside temperature.
Last day
Health, Beauty, etc.
What to do about the conventional medical system,
How to be yourself without relying on drugs,
How to cleanse yourself easily and without spending a lot of money,
and how to protect and beautify your skin without scientific products,
EM bacteria in bananas, how to make vinegar
etc.
Jandai's experience and research will be discussed.
By knowing one thing and solving one problem, the next one will come.
The result of his serious efforts to solve each problem is becoming simpler and simpler.
Eight years have passed since then, but it still exists in the same way.
At that time, there seemed to be many foreigners, but now, as the Thai economy is maturing, many young Thai people seem to be participating, and they are enthusiastic about education.
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