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14 November 2007

Seva Cafe: love all, serve all



From YouTube:

Volunteer Anjali Desai explains the vision behind Seva Cafe, a pay-it-forward restaurant in Ahmedabad, India, where each patron makes a donation toward the next person's meal. Devoted to the principle of "think globally, act locally," Anjali describes how this communal experiment in giving reminds us that every individual act of goodwill resounds in the collective human consciousness.


I love this idea. "Think globally, act locally" has been my mantra for years and I think it's a very easy thing to forget as we rush around in our crazy lives. It's all about mindfulness, being in the present moment and knowing that our actions, however inconsequential, affect someone or something else. Interbeing, as Thich Nhat Hanh believes.

Would the world be in the shape that it's in if we truly believed in a collective human consciousness? I don't know about anyone else, but I feel a paradigm shift coming on.

2 comments:

girl30 said...

i love this! i've got the slowest net connection in the world so can't open the moving stuff but the whole idea behind that restaurant is SO with my thinking... it's glorious! xx

Anonymous said...

Pay it forward - nice idea. Good idea.