Love
and Peace, Members of Our अΣO אن冬宮.
שלום.नमस्ते.สมาธ.Pax.سلام.Peace.साटीनाम.صلح.Kwey.Amani.Udo.Barış.ειρήνη.Pace.Paz.Paix.Fred.
Frieden.Vrede.Siochana.мир.امن.和平.平和.평화.Ingatka.Wominjeka.Aloha.
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Love
and Peace to our families and friends.
My
name is Peter Frank Womack Johannesen Osisi, and it is with significant and
humble joy that I share with you a brief description of some of the inaugural
programmes offered by our अΣO אن冬宮 (Asona Ashram).
Whilst this is an
endeavour that is many years (and even many millennia) in the making, we are recently
able to officially open the doors to our अΣO אن冬宮. Our अΣO אن冬宮 is a
plural and diverse gathering place that welcomes families and friends from all
religions, ethnicities, languages, cultures, and traditions. We are currently operating out of interim
facilities, a residential flat within our Coventry neighbourhood in our Φ; स.僧伽.С.Σ.ω.S.
.サンガ.ᄉ.س.
.:*.U.ส.ש
.サンガ.ᄉ.س..:*.U.ส.ש
(University Circle Sangha), on the East Side of our
Cuyahoga area: 2724 Mayfield Road #10. We are working to move our interim facilities
to a house (also within our Coventry neighbourhood) within the next few
months. And we are building our
long-term facility nearby, within our UNI Village, on the corner of Louis
Stokes Blvd and Cedar Avenue, God Willing, B’ezrat Hashem, En’sh’Allah,
Samadhi, Om.
We invite each of you to come and visit us for some
tea, coffee, and conversation. We have a
ready supply of an international collection of teas, including some from
Phoenix Coffeehouse; and some tea and
coffee forthcoming from both Phoenix Coffee and 10,000 Villages. And if you let us know ahead, we may be able
to secure some biscuits, cookies, and/or something else to complement our
drinks.
Today, we have a modest assortment of activities
that we offer. We have 3 weekly
programmes:
Multiculture
Mondays (Mondays at 19:00h): This is an informal, organic gathering that
celebrates music, art, poetry, spoken word, and additional expressions from our
many different cultures. Members are
invited to share original and favourite selections, and to provide further
descriptions, historic narratives, and explanations of each selection. Emphasis is also placed upon group
participation, with the entire gathering joining in within appropriate
selections. This is the moment to bring
your djembe, your guitar, your violin, your maracas, your prose, your
works-in-progress, your interpretive dance, your giggles, and your spontaneity
skills. We are building a cultural
atmosphere of light hearts and depth of thought, with smiles and laughter.
19:30
Wednesdays (Wednesdays at 19:30h): This is a discussion group that addresses
different topical issues each week. From
comprehensive geopolitical agendae to origami and recycling, we consider different
contemporary circumstances and methodologies through which we can improve the
comprehensive Peace, understanding, and cooperation within our international
community and throughout the Universe. Each
discussion is scheduled for approximately 1½ hours, and we determine each
weekly topic on a rolling basis, for the next 4 weeks only. The next four weeks are scheduled in the
proceeding manner:
119.11.5;67;4•10:
Cooperative Economics (And The CoCa Coop System)
119.11.12;67;4o2:
Global Agendae For The Next 20 – 50 Years
119.11.19;67;4o9:
The Multiethnic Experience
119.11.26;67;4•1:
The Passivhaus Paradigm
We invite your suggestions for additional topics,
and we welcome you to become discussion moderators.
Multiethnic
Multiplex Presents… (Thursdays at 19:00h): This is an international, intercultural, interlinguistic,
interreligious, and “inter-additional” cosmopolitan film club. Each week, we view a film from a different
country, usually within the original language, and then we discuss the themes
and issues that are expressed through the film.
There is also the consideration of occasionally convening a series of
successive weekly screenings of different films addressing a similar topic, and
building our discussion around a comparative review of the films within each
series. We are also working to acquire a
projector to make viewing of the films easier and increasingly communal. Until then, we invite you to bring your
laptops/ipads/mobile phones and earplugs, to view and discuss the films
together. We also welcome your
suggestions for additional films and series.
The next film we are planning to view is entitled, “一個都不能少”
(“Not 1 Less,” “Yi ge dou bu neng shao”),
provided by our friends with the Confucius Institute Online, http://video.chinese.cn/en/article/2009-09/02/content_36298.htm.
This Chinese film is about an adolescent
young woman who is charged with the responsibility of being the only teacher
for a rural village’s elementary school.
Within
The Next 2 Months:
Within the next 2 months or so, we are planning to
host and convene a number of religious- and culture-based events within our
facilities:
This includes a daily recitation (in English
translation) of succeeding portions of the entire Koran throughout the month of
Ramadan (regularly at approximately 17:00h, each day). This also includes occasional, modest
receptions for breaking the fast (after Sunset).
We are also planning to provide a modest meal on
the occasion of the Baha’i feast for the month of Kamal (after Sunset).
We are planning a modest class commemorating the
observance of Asalha Puja (Dharma Day), practised within Buddhism (and
specifically within the Therevadan tradition);
tentatively at 16:00h.
We are planning a very modest, informal commemoration
of the observance of Lammas, around Noon.
We are also planning to host very modest, informal,
and neophyte services for the Jewish High Holy Days, scheduled for nearly 2
months from this point. It is
appropriate to provide that our अΣO אن冬宮 abstains from convening these services itself; we simply provide our facilities as a venue
therein for additional members to conduct
such events, programmes, and activity.
Throughout the 12th month of our
interFaith calendar (beginning in less than 4 weeks), there is a continual
celebration of the experience of family, “Dias De Las Familias.” On each day of this month, individuals are
encouraged to be increasingly mindful, and appreciative of the positive family
circumstances that we each respectively experience.
Additional
Hosting:
For a considerable period in the recent past, up
through today, our अΣO אن冬宮 hosts an interFaith service on Tuesday before each
New Moon, and the Tuesday before each Full Moon. This continues.
Our अΣO אن冬宮 also provides space for members, from the धर्म עולם תקן (“Dharma
Of Tikkun Olam”), to convene a daily Mantram recitation (approximately at
6:00h), as well as a Shabbat service (which, throughout the day, includes
recitations from the “Etz Hayim” Chumash [in English and Hebrew], the HafTorah
reading [in Hebrew], recitations from additional Holy Scriptures [respectively from
Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam], Yoga, Salat, Davening, and the
sharing of songs, chants, teachings, prayers, meditation, and blessings from
many of our respective religious and cultural traditions).
Also during this period, we are able to accommodate
a number of members who visit and stay with us.
We receive a steady supply of oatmeal, rice, fruits, and vegetables, and
are able to provide regular meals and refreshments. And we are working to build upon this. Amidst this, we are able to host a number of
interesting conversations and to provide office facilities for convening
organisational meetings and conducting additional work.
Classes
(Next Semester Beginning In 2½ months: 120.1.20).
Amidst the numerous activities and development of our
अΣO אن冬宮, we
are dedicating only minimal efforts towards arranging classes for this upcoming
Kartak semester. We welcome any
suggestions for classes as well as volunteer teachers to conduct the
classes. We are making additional plans
for the next Baha semester, which is scheduled to begin in less than 6 months.
Needed
Resources:
Our अΣO אن冬宮
operates through the contributions that are provided by our members: our families and friends. We are able to recently post the inaugural
version of our “Resource Budget Tote Board,” http://asonaashram.blogspot.com/2013/07/o-resource-budget-tote-board-for-120.html,
which provides a general description of the basic material and service needs
that we anticipate for our अΣO אن冬宮 for
the next fiscal year (120), which begins in less than 2 months. Our अΣO אن冬宮 abstains from utilising money, and we abstain from
soliciting monetary contributions. We do
accept direct material and service contributions, and we specify our annual
material and service needs into smaller, incremental segments, to facilitate
increased ease in making such contributions.
The idea of the tote board is to encourage our members and supporters to
pledge to provide simply a segment of our material and service needs, whether
it is a monthly allotment for our housing arrangement or our weekly ration of
olive oil. We also accept gift cards,
and we are amenable to additional, unconventional forms of cooperative
economics. Contributions to our अΣO אن冬宮 can
also be made, on our behalf, to the InterFaith Settlement Foundation.
A considerable
majority of the recent visits to our अΣO אن冬宮 are made by men;
and some of the increasingly conservative element amongst our members
solicit additional visits from women, with particular consideration towards
helping us with cooking meals, tidying the kitchen, shopping for groceries, and
additionally.
We can also utilise
some help particularly regarding the relocation of the interim facilities of
our अΣO אن冬宮, from the current residential apartment
to a nearby residential house. This is
to accommodate our members who frequently visit and stay with us; as well as to provide proficient space and
hospitality for the different programmes that we convene and host (particularly
those that occur concurrently). The
intention is for us to stay within this residential house until the long-term
facilities for our अΣO אن冬宮 are constructed and prepared. Do you maintain stewardship of a house in our
Coventry neighbour, and/or do you know someone who does? Perhaps we can make some arrangements.
Long-Term
Facilities.
We are building
our अΣO אن冬宮
facilities with the Passivhaus construction and maintenance methodology, www.passivhaus.org.uk/. This involves strict energy efficiency
construction that significantly reduces energy requirements throughout the
year, and particularly during the cold Winter months. Additional unconventional construction
methodologies that we are utilising include:
rainwater collection, solar energy, greenhouse gardening, composting,
closed-circuit sewaging, and additionally.
Our long-term अΣO אن冬宮 facilities are being constructed in a manner that
is autonomous from the local infrastructure:
off the power grid, off the plumbing and sewage system, off the gas
lines, and additionally. We are making
arrangements with construction agencies who are experienced within these
construction methodologies. Given our
abstinence from money, we are also negotiating arrangements to facilitate the
construction of our अΣO אن冬宮 through cooperative economics. This includes advanced reservations for
accommodations and programmes within our अΣO אن冬宮 for religious and organisational affiliates of the
construction agencies and additional OAFFs who contribute to the construction
of our अΣO אن冬宮
facilities; and this includes additional
forms of compensation and trade (including utilisation of the CoCa Coop System,
www.cocacoopsystem.blogspot.com).
We are also negotiating with
appropriate international and interreligious entities to establish our अΣO אن冬宮, and
our अΣO אن冬宮
facilitites, as politically autonomous entities within our international
community: beyond the jurisdiction and
authority of the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, the State of Ohio, the
United States of America, and additionally (similar to standard, conventional
arrangements for embassies, UN offices, and additional facilities).
Within the past
few weeks, we initiate a weekly vigil (Wednesdays at Noon), to facilitate the
establishment of our अΣO אن冬宮 facilities within the long-term location on the
corner of Louis Stokes Blvd and Cedar Avenue.
This weekly vigil consists of songs and chants from our many different
religious and cultural traditions, sharing messages of Love and Peace, healing
and belonging. The purpose of this
weekly vigil is to prepare the land, the nature, and the people in this area
for the construction of our अΣO אن冬宮 facilities:
preparation that is direct and esoteric;
physical, psychological, social, political, economic, diplomatic,
religious, spiritual, and additionally.
Upcoming
Local, Global, Universal Events:
The proceeding are
some local and global interFaith events that are being planned within the next
few months:
InterFaith Iftar at the Islamic Centre Of
Cleveland (Sunday, 19
Ramadan):
www.cairohio.com/events-programs/cleveland-events-a-programs.html?task=view_event&event_id=60; www.iccleveland.com
Akron Area InterFaith Council Meeting (Tuesday, 6 August):
Interreligious Peace Makers Monthly
Meeting (Thursday, 8
August; 14:00h at Trinity Commons on
Euclid Avenue)
11 September Event (TBA):
(Previous
Year: http://students.case.edu/programs/sharethevision/september9.html)
CEIRS (Cleveland Ecumenical Institute
Of Religious Studies) Joan Chittister Speaking Engagement (Canceled, 10 November; Trinity Cathedral):
Arts Of Thanksgiving (Tentatively Sunday, 24 November):
(Previous
Year: www.facebook.com/events/331177610311217/)
North American InterFaith Network
Annual Connect (11 – 14
August; Toronto, Canada):
Parliament Of The World’s Religions Webinar
Series (Ongoing,
Internet):
NAIN
Young Adult Conference Calls (Ongoing,
Internet):
InterFaith Conference Of Metropolitan
Washington Annual InterFaith Concert
(Tuesday, 19 November; Potomac Area,
Washington, DC):
URI Global Youth Forum (Ongoing, Internet)
InterFaith Youth Core Leadership
Institute (11 – 13
August; New York, New York; also periodic within additional locations):
World Congress Of Faiths Annual
Younghusband Lecture (With Yehuda Stolov) (19 August;
London, England):
WCF, IARF (International Association
For Religious Freedom) Joint Conference (20 –
23 August; London, England):
IARF USA West Coast Tour (14 – 21 September; Commencing in San Francisco, California):
IARF 34th World Congress (24 – 27 August 2014; Birmingham, England):
(Tentative) Brussels Conference On
InterFaith Work And Social Activism (TBD,
Northern Summer 120; Brussels, Belgium)
Additional
Resources Are Available With:
Pluralism
Project:
Elijah
InterFaith Institute: Wisdom Newsletter:
The InterFaith
Observer:
Contact
Information.
For additional information, I can be reached
at: peter@interfaithsettlement.org,
pfwjo1@gmail.com; +1 216 534 6949 (mobile/text); and peterfrankwomackjohannesenosisi (Skype). And again, the street address for the current
interim facilities of our अΣO אن冬宮
is:
2724
Mayfield Road #10
Within the Coventry Neighbourhood of our Φ; स.僧伽.С.Σ.ω.S..サンガ.ᄉ.س..:*.U.ส.ש (University Circle Sangha), on the East Side of our
Cuyahoga area, Oyo, Earth, Galaxy, Universe.
.サンガ.ᄉ.س..:*.U.ส.ש (University Circle Sangha), on the East Side of our
Cuyahoga area, Oyo, Earth, Galaxy, Universe.
For additional information regarding our अΣO אن冬宮, you are welcome
to review our Prospectus, http://asonaashram.blogspot.com/2013/07/o-prospectus-11910276743.html; as well as a compilation of teachings that
guide and inspire the work of our अΣO אن冬宮,
(beginning at: http://asonaashram.blogspot.com/2013/07/o-holy-scriptures-compilation-15.html). You are also welcome to consult with our
2-year calendar, listing numerous religious and traditional observances,
(beginning at: http://asonaashram.blogspot.com/2013/07/o-asona-ashram-calendar-120-121.html).
Your patience and consideration are appreciated,
and we look forward to continuing to build with you. May you and all beings be well and Happy.
Love and Peace,
Peter
שלום.नमस्ते.สมาธ.Pax.سلام.Peace.साटीनाम.صلح.Kwey.Amani.Udo.Barış.ειρήνη.Pace.Paz.Paix.Fred.
Frieden.Vrede.Siochana.мир.امن.和平.平和.평화.Ingatka.Wominjeka.Aloha.
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Shalom(Hebrew).Namaste(Sanskrit).Samadhi(Thai/Pali).Pax(Latin).Salaam(Arabic).Peace(English).
SatNam(Punjabi).Solh(Persian).Kwey(Algonquin).Amani(Swahili).Udo(Ibo).Barish(Turkish).Erieni(Greek).Pache(Italiano).Paz(Espanol).Paix(Francais).
Fred(Scandinavian).Frieden(Deutsch).Siochana(Irish).Mir(Russian).Amin(Urdu).Heping(Mandarin).Heiwa(Japanese).Pyeonghwa(Korean).
Ingatka(Tagolog).Wominjeka(Wurundjeri).Aloha(Hawai’ian).Peace(Common
Symbol).Peace(Common Sign).Peace(American Sign).Peace(American Braille).
Om. Amen.
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