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Dear all,
It is my pleasure to nominate our Guide Xue Feng for the award for Kozeny Communitarian Award 2014 in the category of cooperative leadership.
With the experiences in th New Oasis for Life created. By Mr.Xue Feng Our Guide and after meeting and talking to him I was inspired to nominate him for this award.
This is my little way of showing my appreciation and gratitude to Mr.Xue Feng -the Guide and the whole community and its happy members who gave me an experience of a life time of friendship, care, spiritual and mental strength and most of all the affection and love they bestowed on me.
With heartfelt thanks and best regards
Kasan. - Venkatesh Dharmraj. I am enclosing a copy of the nomination sent by me.
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"New Oasis for life" is a fine example of a working community created, developed, nurtured and spreading the values of a healthy and purposeful community living. The community is spread in three districts of the Yunnan province of China - Anning, Chuxiong and Lincang.
Mr.Xue Feng has consciously chosen the three locations in the rural villages of china as his values and actions speak and put to practice the core value of being and flowing with Nature - Tao and not against nature. He calls this core value as beautifying the soul garden -which includes the inside soul of humans in consonance with outside nature. All put together he calls the entire being - the humans, the earth, nature and the universe as"The Greatest Creator". He has modeled 'New Oasis for life' on this core concept.
I visited all the three branches of the community during January and February 2013 and lived in each community and experienced the life in the community being among the members of the community.I met Mr.Xue Feng several times and discussed his concepts and ideas. This experience persuades me to nominate Mr.Xue Feng for the category of co-operative leadership.
Mr. Xue Feng has modeled exemplary and inspirational leadership in a cooperative context and has been instrumental inthe creation and development of a culture:
The culture he has created can aptly be called cooperative living with dignity of every individual and dignity of labour sprinkled with joy of working for the welfare of the community and its members, thus elevating one another and promoting pure love in the community.It's heartening to see and experience this unique experience of the joy and love that pervades this community. There are altogether more than 200 members spread in three branches. This amazed me and led me to put forth this nomination.
The most significant contribution in the community that is most obvious to missed is that the aged are the most beneficiaries in terms of respect, care, support, participation, contribution which has led them to part their experience to the younger green ration, while keeping them actively participating in the community up keep resulting in very healthy aged people. In their sixties, late sixties, seventies and late seventies and a couple of elderly 80 year olds going about with enthusiasm and taking on chores that suit their strength and skill makes these aged community members a pride of lion hearted inspirers!
Of course children too are the most beneficiaries as all the children of different branches, totaling 13 are in one school at the 4th branch. They have a school and participate in the commondining and other recreational activities, apart from learning skills of doing chores which they enjoy! The healthy environment physically and psychologically,in my opinion, makes these children the buds to bloom to take the community philosophy of living forward for generations.
It is heartening to see these two aspects with elders and children which brings a rays of hope of care for all in this modern busy and chaotic world.
Mr. Xue Feng has beens uccessful in modeling of healthy ego management:
The core concept of valuing every type of work equally without making one work more important than another and the freedom to choose and change the type of work in the community, thus eliminating the competition resulting in cooperation in the true sense! It trite to say that a successful cooperative is where there is 'cooperation'! The net result and a natural consequence has been that the community is self sustaining.
Working closely with nature in the contest of the cooperative farming growing various fruits, vegetables and many food sources has, I believe, created a sense of oneness and eliminating superior (boss) and inferior (worker). I believe that the root cause of ego is the result of superior versus inferior and when these opposites vanish ego has no choice but to vanish. The beautiful side effects ofthis are respect, concern and love for one another in the community.
In these times of turbulence in the world filled with economic crisis and stress,this cooperative living seems to provide workable solutions for a happy and purposeful living.
I believe this one simple leaf can be taken from this community to be adopted in other communities as a panacea for Ego management.
The demonstration of grace and the ability to hold the group together thus reducing crisis to a minimum and also making it possible to gracefully handle some crisis when arose: The core values described above have also proved to totally minimize crisis in the community thus resolving the sporadic crisis and conflict is an easy task in this community.
His grace and ability has enabled the leadership capacity of others and flourished under his guidance: Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they cometo see it in themselves. This seems to be the core trait of Mr.Xue Feng.
Apart from elimination of superior and inferior status among the members and apart from growing food and being self sufficient, Mr. Xue Feng has introduced the spiritual concepts of consciousness soul nurturing through studying the best value of all spiritual scriptures in the community. The members have as piritual orientation as a result of this, not only manual work but spiritual well being are encouraged and fostered among the community members. He has created a hundred Xue Fengs...
What Bill Gates says aptly applies to Xue Feng - "As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others."
Similarly Stephen R Covey realized after writing his best selling'seven habits of highly effective people' the most important habit is the 8th habit of "from effectiveness to greatness".
The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional — body, mind, heart, and spirit. The call and need of a new era is for greatness. It's for fulfillment, passionate execution, and significant contribution. Tapping into the higher reaches of human genius and motivation — what we could call voice — requires a new mindset, a new skill-set, a new tool-set ... a new habit .. its to find You rVoice and Inspire Others to Find Theirs."
I find Xue Feng has created worker leaders and leader workers and therefore the leaders of the different wings of the community realize the importance of every members' skills and their contribution resulting in a hard working work people at the same time making them self respecting and potential future leaders.
So there would be no gap between his being here now and after he has gone.
That apart each branch of the community has internet cafe and all most all members of the community are conversant with the Internet and exposed to the world. The members are also encouraged to contribute their ideas in the community website and also post articles, information regarding the various events and happenings in the world. The members do reply and chat with one another.
This seems to me like the two ends of the bow - labour work in the farm and the exposure to the mental faculties tied by the rope of respect and love making the community a beautiful bow to shoot the arrows of love and inspiration all around!
Foresight to prepare well for an orderly transition to others when it was time to step down. What I have said about the working model very naturally and gradually permeates the values from one generation to another thus transition of leadership would simply be a silent and a natural process for the continuation of the community for the future.
That apart, He has permeated his qualities each one go the members by example and being one with them and thus he has been abler create 100s of Xue Fengs.Therefore, I see the transition would be a silent and beatific process.
When I told Mr.Feng about my inclination to nominate him for this award he smilingly told me - ' I am a singing bird Mr.Venkatesh, it's my nature to sing,if people enjoy listening my songs that in itself is an award for me'.
I feel what I have tried to compile in this letter is just the gist of the working of this community. A visit to this community would amply demonstrate the success of this community living with the 'invisible' leadership of Mr.Xue Feng. I would recommend communities to net work and visit this community.
I present Mr.Xue Feng for your appreciation and appraisal for this award.
Enclosures:I am enclosing some links of pictures of cooperative working in this community to give you a glimpse of this community living.
With best regards,
Venkatesh Dharmraj.
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