Introducing the Seon Eco-village #2

Introducing the Seon Eco-village

Those who often visit this blog might know that I live in an Eco-village.
I used to run a big clinic in the center of Seoul, the largest city in Korea.
There I usually treated patients with nasal problems. Patients who suffer from
rhinitis or sinusitis also suffer from low level of immunity. Actually this has a lot to do with
environmental problem. When I was little, the air of Seoul was fine. Therefore, those who suffer
from respiratory diseases were rare. This is one of the reasons I moved to country.

My clinic is located in the south-end of Goheung. It is almost 6 hours away from Seoul. A country like Korea, this is a quite a long distance.

Anyway, patients who suffer from rhinitis, sinusitis or snoring gets a lot better after they stay at the eco-village during their treatment period. Why? Respiratory diseases are a lot to do with environmental matters, thus when they stay in a clean area, it gets better very soon.

So, let me introduce my eco-village today. Yeah!

The Direction and Vision of the Seonae Villages

Here follow the direction and vision which the Seonae Villages pursue:

1. It is an ecological community. We are planning to solve the issues about managing one’s lifestyle based on ecological principles. For this, firstly we grow crops organically. Secondly, we build our houses eco-friendly way (such as eco-toilets and natural housing materials). Thirdly, we use alternative energy sources (such as sun rays and geothermal power). Fourth, we save and recycle the natural resources of the Earth (such as using rain water and recycling sewage)
2. It is a community of love. We are trying to live with love as our fundamental value by loving one’s self, nature, the world, Heaven and the Universe. In order for this, we are practicing the 11 Health Guidelines and 18 items of the precepts.

3. It is a community of spirituality. We are trying to live a life where we join in with evolution, which is the purpose of the creation of the Universe and human beings (the life that accords with the direction the Universe pursues). Recently, human beings spend so much energy and time on doing too many things in the complicated world, that they can’t pay attention to growing and enriching their spirituality. We don’t know why we were born, what we have to learn through experience on the Earth and what kind of life we should live. To attain this we do deep breathing training with universe energy as a daily routine.

4. In the time of emergency, Seonae Village will play the role of being the Green Base of the Earth. In preparation for the impending Peak Oil (oil depletion) and food crisis, which we don’t know when will visit us, we are trying to establish the system for a long-term food supply. To attain this, we are preparing for sharing how to preserve and store food for a long time to the world.

Besides these, it is a community which has the Seon culture contents with which to realize an art culture which is close to the human original nature, which contains the waves which can console and energize people’s mind. Also it is the community of alternative education and medicine. The Seonae Villages try to be a model that can be assumed by anyone as an adoptable form of life. We suggest a model of life in which humans can become one with nature, attain self-sufficiency in terms of food and power, have education that nurtures spiritualty and ultimately accomplish a beautiful completion by realizing life and death are consequently one. It will become the alternative space where the
language of human original nature, which can’t be understood in material civilization, is realized and we can make a breakthrough from the current situation of the Earth. The Seonae Villages will be on the frontline to share hope and will receive the new generation.