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“雪峰”被提名竞选柯兹尼共产主义践行者奖

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好消息！导游被提名竞选柯兹尼共产主义践行者奖

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Kozeny Communiatrian Award 柯兹尼（音译）共产主义践行者奖（Kozeny Communiatrian Award）是国际社区联合会（Fellowship for International Community）设立的一个奖项，此奖以Geoph Kozeny 杰夫.柯兹尼先生的名字命名，是为了纪念杰夫.柯兹尼先生，表达联合会对他坚忍不拔的精神力量的崇敬，柯兹尼先生将大半生的精力投入在了在世界范围内建立社区。设立这个奖项的目的是为了庆祝在社区建设各个领域取得杰出成就的个人或组织。柯兹尼奖下设七个类别，这次卡森草提名导游的是杰出合作领导奖。这个奖项主要将被授予在领导才能方面有杰出表现的个人，尤其是指在与人合作方面所表现出的榜样模范作用和感召力。

此奖项荣誉将授予终生有杰出表现的成就者，可以说是个终生成就奖，而非单次成就奖。评审组会主要考虑授予的对象是在北美地区成功创建社区的个人，当然，他们也不排除在其他国家地区做出杰出贡献的候选人，奖项获得者需不仅对其社区内部成员有强大的影响力，并且能够影响到更广泛的大众人群。

提名时间截止至2013年3月1日，卡森已向评审组提交了提名信并得到对方确认收悉，在截止日期后评审委员会将初选出一个最有希望获奖者的名单，最后的评审工作将在今年的4月5日至7日进行，获奖者公布后，委员会将和获奖者联系安排其在2014年某个时间参加颁奖仪式。

以下为提名信的中文翻译件，因我英文水平有限，翻译不当之处还请导游和兄弟姐妹们多多包涵。

尊敬的的评审组委员们：

今天我很高兴并很荣幸地提名雪峰先生-- 我们的导游竞选Kozeny Communitarian Award 2014年柯兹尼（音译）共产主义践行者奖 - 类别：杰出合作领导奖。

我在中国生命禅院第二家园社区生活的经历以及和雪峰导游的交流促使我有此意愿提名他。

这也是我表达对这个社区的感谢感激之情的一个方式，包括雪峰和所有社区成员，感谢他们给我了这样一个经历，让我得到了很多可以终生相伴的好朋友，感谢他们给我的关心照顾，我从他们身上获得了很多精神和心灵的能量，以及最宝贵的无私友爱。

此致！
卡森草

2014年柯兹尼共产主义践行者奖提名信

奖项类别：杰出合作领导奖

1. 被提名人的主要贡献：
生命禅院的第二家园是个社区生活方式的典范，它从创始、发展，到继续完善完美一直都有序运行着，它传播健康且有意义的社区生活的理念。第二家园目前有三个分院，分别在中国云南省的安宁市、楚雄市和临沧市。

雪峰先生精心地选择了三个乡村地区，是想身体力行地宣传敬畏大自然，并与自然和谐相处的生活理念 – 顺从自然 (道) ，不破坏自然。他将他的核心理念称为心灵花园的完美，其中包括人类心灵与外界大自然的和谐共振. 他将所有宇宙生命– 人类，地球，自然等的创造者称为“上帝”，他也是用这个核心理念来塑造他心目中理想的世外桃源的。

我在2013年1月和2月到中国拜访了这个社区的三所分院，分别在每个分院居住，和其成员一起生活工作。我和雪峰先生就他的思想和价值观有过几次探讨。这些经历让我有了提名雪峰先生竞选杰出合作领导奖的想法。

雪峰先生以身作则地示范了一个成功的领导者的品质：以远大的目标激励社区成员，让他们互助合作，开心生活工作，因此成功创造和发展了一种有效的社区文化。

他创造的这种文化可以恰如其分地被称为合作互助的生活方式，每个成员在为社区整体发展谋福利的生活工作过程中充分地体验到了被他人尊重的感觉以及劳动的光荣感，因此人人开心快乐，工作热情能相互被提升，并给予彼此纯粹的爱。我深深被遍布在这个社区的每个角落的爱和喜悦所感染和激励。大约有200位成员居住在这个社区的三所分院，这个规模让我很惊讶，并促使我写这封提名信。

这个社区最显著的也最容易被忽视的贡献是无论从个人受到的尊重，关爱，支持，参与性等方面来说，老年人会是最大的受益者，并且他们能够将他们的经验分享给年轻的一辈。对社区劳动的积极参与也使他们能够成为非常健康的年长者，无论是60岁，70岁甚至个别80多岁的，他们仍然精力充沛，做着力所能及和擅长的工作，他们的勇气和热情让人为之骄傲，我也深深地被此打动。

当然孩子们也是最大的受益者，在三个分院一共有13个孩子，四分院有一个学校，孩子们在学校接受统一的教育，他们除了学习以外，业余时间还参加喜爱的劳动，孩子们和大人们共同用餐及参与其他娱乐活动。在我看来，社区营造的这种文化环境能使孩子们的身心非常健康地成长，他们会像花苞一样美丽地绽放，并能将社区文化一代代传承下去。

在如今繁忙无序的世界里，能看到这样一群开心快乐生活着的老人和孩子们，我的心为之震动，我看了希望的曙光。

雪峰先生在个人自我意识管理方面也做得非常成功。平等对待每一个工作，没有让一个工作比另外的工作更重要，成员们有自由选择和调换他们的工作，这个理念彻底消除了社区成员的竞争意识，使成员之间实现了真正意义上的相互合作；人们常说一个成功的合作体必须存在真正的“合作”，“合作”带来的一个自然结果就是社区能够实现良性自动运转。

社区成员合作的各项工作包括种植蔬菜、水果等都使这个社区与自然紧密相联，这种工作方式使社区成员能够产生“一体”感，并消除了上级、下级的等级观念。我相信人的强烈小我意识的产生根源在于上下级的对比，当上下级不存在的时候，小我意识便缺少了生存的土壤逐渐淡化消失。这一点带来的非常美好的一个自然结果就是社区成员相互尊重，关照和爱护。

今天，经济危机时时发生，国际局势动荡不安，人人压力重重，疲惫不堪，这样一种合作性的社区生活方式似乎为人类提供了切实可行的解决办法，将人类从压力中解放出来，从而过上开心快乐有意义的生活。

我相信仅仅以上简单的一点就可以作为一剂万能药被其他社区采纳来进行自我意识的管理。

2.被提名人有能力使社区具有凝聚力从而将危机风险降到最低，并使社区在危机出现的时候能够自如地应对处理。

以上谈到的内容也可以证明这个社区完全有能力将风险降到最低程度，所以危机处理对这个社区来说是很容易的一件事。

3. 被提名人的人格魅力和能力使社区其他成员也能够在他的引导下激发并发展自身的领导才能

领导力是和人们交流沟通使他们能够才有所用，并使他们逐渐认识自己的长处和潜力。这一点似乎是雪峰先生的专长。

除了消除了成员的等级观念，依靠种植达到自给自足以外，雪峰先生也通过在社区定期学习古今中外圣典的精华理念来充实社区成员的精神和心灵食粮。因此，所有社区成员都有一个明确的灵性发展目标，除了体力劳动被鼓励外，心灵富足健康完美也是被鼓励和持续培养的；我觉得他已经创造了100个雪峰化身。。。。。。

比尔.盖茨的一句名言可以用来恰当地形容雪峰：展望下一个新世纪，真正的领袖必将是那些给人以希望的人。

同样的，史蒂芬.柯维在写了他最畅销的“高效人士的七个习惯”后也意识到其实最重要的是第八个习惯，即“从高效走向伟大”。

最基本的现实是：人并不象物品一样需要被控制，但需要被激励。因为人这种生命有四个维度：身体，心灵，心，精神。开创一个新时代是伟大的行为，它需要坚韧不拔的毅力，持续的热情和全身心的投入。达到人类智慧和领导力的顶峰需要新思维，新技能，新方法，新习惯，我们也称它为“声音”，即发现你内在的“声音”并以此来激励他人来发现他们的“声音”。

雪峰先生已经培养了很多具备领导才能的工作者和脚踏实地工作着的天生领导者。因此在社区每个领域的领导者能够意识到每位成员才能和贡献的重要性，因此人人有动力努力工作，带来的结果是人人受到尊重，他们也会成为的未来的领导者。

所以我认为雪峰在和雪峰不在的时候这个社区的表现不会有所差别。

每所分院都有电脑房，几乎所有社区成员都能熟练使用网络和外界交流。成员们也被鼓励在社区的内部网上分享完善完美家园的好点子，他们也可以将世界发生的重要事件信息等转帖在内部网上。成员之间经常通过网络来互动交流。

这对我来说好像是一张弓的两端：一端是和自然打交道的体力劳动能力，另一端是精神能量，这两端被尊重和爱的联结在一起，使这张弓能够射出最强有力的爱和鼓舞之剑。

4. 退出领袖角色后能使社区平稳过渡的远见卓识

在我以上提到的社区文化下，我觉得社区运行模式能够自然而然潜移默化地一代代渗透下去，因此这个社区能够通过领导者的顺利的自然的移交平稳地走向未来。

此外，雪峰先生也不断地将他的个人的优秀品质通过言传身教传承给社区成员，所以他有能力创造出100个雪峰的化身，如果有一天他离开了，这个社区也会过渡得很安静很顺畅。

当我告诉雪峰先生我有意愿提名他时，他微笑着告诉我：“卡森，我就像只歌唱着的小鸟，唱歌是我的天性，如果有人欣赏我的歌声，那就是对我最好的奖励”。

我在这封信中所试图描述的只是这个社区的一点概要，亲自拜访这个社区可以充分地感受到雪峰先生的出色但“看不见”的领导能力，因此，我会推荐其他社区和他们交流甚至拜访他们。

因为以上所述，我在此提名雪峰先生竞选KOZENY奖供各位评估。

再附上一些照片让你们对生命禅院的第二家园有个感性认识。

最诚挚的问候！
卡森草 - VenkateshDharmraj.

以下为提名信原文
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.