Pane. Olio. Vino. Esperienza Semplice-Dura
“Melius est invidia urgenti quam commiseratione deplorari, 1701”
“Senza senso! Senza senso!” dice il Maestro.
"Completamente insignificante! Tutto è insignificante."
Che cosa guadagna l'uomo da tutta la fatica per cui si affatica sotto il sole?
Le generazioni vanno e vengono, ma la terra rimane per sempre. Il sole sorge e tramonta, e si affretta a tornare dove sorge. Il vento soffia a sud e gira a nord; gira e rigira, sempre tornando al suo corso. Tutti i corsi d'acqua scorrono verso il mare, eppure il mare non è mai pieno. Al luogo da cui provengono i corsi d'acqua, lì ritornano di nuovo.
Tutte le cose sono noiose, più di quanto si possa dire.
L'occhio non si sazia mai di vedere, né l'orecchio si sazia di udire. Ciò che è stato sarà di nuovo, ciò che è stato fatto sarà di nuovo fatto; non c'è niente di nuovo sotto il sole.
C'è qualcosa di cui si può dire,
“Guarda! Questa è una novità”?
Era qui già molto tempo fa; era qui prima del nostro tempo.
Nessuno ricorda più le generazioni passate, e neppure quelle che verranno saranno ricordate da coloro che le seguiranno. ( Ecclesiaste 1:1-2:11 ).
La maggior parte delle guerre vengono vinte o perse nella nostra mente/cervello.
Nessuno è più forte e felice di un uomo che riesce a padroneggiare la sua mente/cervello. Lo usiamo come motivazione per avere l'esperienza più importante della nostra vita:
esperienza di Stelle e Semplicità.
"Che ce ne rendiamo conto o no, sono le nostre ferite, o il modo in cui le affrontiamo, a dettare gran parte del nostro comportamento, a plasmare le nostre abitudini sociali e a informare il nostro modo di pensare al mondo".
Gabor Mate
The truth is that our mind/brain is on our side very rarely. When our mind says we are done, we're just 40% done.
Every day when we wake up we have to fight the habits that will make us weak and take us away from our Seity.
It is a constant battle, but is worth it in the end.
You will proud to face the man in the mirror or you will listen tothe voice inside your head that tells you to sleep, to stop, to escape, tells you that you have already done enoughetc. It is your choice, as always.
“It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution”- said AlvinToffler.
Every day- the choice.
If we told you that we are all addicted to something,
what would you say?
Now your first thought will probably be a quick
“I have no addiction.”
You might think about the addiction to methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, cigarettes... to multiple substances at once.
You know the toll that addiction takes on health, relationships and life, and you know that people can’t regain control.
This is the addict’s vicious cycle.
“I am different, amn't I?” - you think.
And you are right.
But we insist that we all have daily addictions.
We all need a simple way to break a bad habit.
B.O.W Experience is our Simple Path.
Oggi il cambiamento è una necessità.
Ervin Laszlo dice:
"Quando ci troviamo di fronte a un grande cambiamento, come certamente stiamo vivendo ora, diventa sempre più importante capire come affrontare questa sfida del cambiamento, che è la trasformazione della civiltà, la trasformazione della nostra mente, e per questo motivo diventa assolutamente imperativo studiare la coscienza individuale e ciò che Jung e altri hanno chiamato 'coscienza collettiva'.
Come un'intera società, una civiltà, una cultura reagisce a un cambiamento, come percepisce la sfida che si trova ad affrontare".
"Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals him."
James Allen
Justice isn't an overnight evolution. Happiness comes to those stubborn few that choose to ignore the temporary discomfort of setback for the long-term strategy/culture of delivering Value.
We cannot paddle the boat alone. We must have someone to share our life with. We need a person we can trust.
"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
Oprah Winfrey
We must be prepared to lean on him/her in times of great stress. Accept both his/her support and criticism with equal grace. And be a trustworthy person for him/her. Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds. At Vir-kun-en.com it is all about the team. In suffering as in happiness, we stay together, always a team! The true union never dies. Vir-kun-en.com is "team guys." It is friendship, and something beyond friendship, that binds our Network together.
"The whole is more than the sum of its parts"
Aristotle
Everyone knows it, right? That is why Vir-kun-en.com stands for Co-Working and Co-Living.
Insieme è meglio
Dietro i volti sconosciuti
delle persone che mi sfiorano,
tanta vita, tante aspettative di felicità,
tanti momenti vissuti,
mondi ancora da scoprire,
splendidi universi accanto a me...
Gen Verde
When you work in a team instead of working alone, you get so many new ideas or innovative ways to solve a problem (of land/world or personal). In addition, working in teams gives you more confidence and makes you stronger than ever.
Vir-kun-en.com never forgets that our success depends on others.
"Setting a goal is not themain thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan”
Coach Tom Landry
We wage WAR on ourselves. We rise above ourselves.
Rising above yourself
is creating a better version of yourself.
Rising above
is the only way out that is above all your conditions and circumstances.
Rising above
is your search for harmony, unity and love, which brings your essence (Seity) to light.
Rising above
is your new vision, your growth of consciousness.
Rising above
is living above the common level of life: to be noble when others may be unprincipled, to be happy when others may be sad, to be free when others can be limited, to be honorable when others may be shameless,
to be human being of integrity when others may resort to dualism and dishonesty. The character and having for what and for whom live
(a Value, a personal code of honor) are important!
...Who is in Doubt, Overload!
When you have lost hope, when you meet betrayal, do not be disappointed and betrayed,
do not give up yoursacred aspirations - rise above your frustration, your loss, your suffering; rise to “WE”.
“WE” is above you, is worth more than you. When things don't go our way, when they don't go as planned, don't be bitter, do not look for the emergency exit, an illusion- rise above your bitterness to “WE”.
When you are afraid or stressed by the world, full of violence and dangers, do not be stressed, scared, blocked, do not seek human certainties - rise above your fear, your stress to “WE”.
Life isn’t supposed to be fair, much less bend to your every whim. Everyone fails sometimes. Rise above! “WE” is a Value, a personal Code of Honor.
We all are at such height as we have chosen.
Everyone has a ceiling.
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations,
we fall to the level of our training.”
Archilochus
Our life makes this true, we harden to be ready
for all the situations.
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
George Bernard Shaw
We believe the same, we create ourselves from scratch to become Happy and have Justice. We have high standarts.
“You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that”.
Michael Jordan
We agree.
“The only Astro del Ciel is higher than us, the only Mungibeddu is steeper than us,
the only Acqua is more flexible than us" - is the unofficial Motto of Vir-kun-en.com.
Our general motto is extremely ambitious, but absolutely right.
John Jenkins said: “Let no one ever say we dreamed too small.”
Vir-kun-en.com has a bold vision.
And inaddition to that vision, we have a firm foundation in mindfulness, detailed planning and hard work
(not just wishful thinking). We live our life by a Value, it’s our shoreline, it’s what guides us home.
And trust us, we’re always trying to get home!
"My shore! Show yourself afar,
Just an edge, Just an outline..
The sun shines there, even if it rains!
Near the water, in the small garden the flowers have already bloomed;
Ther's as bright as it was in childhood..!!
Even if the place is hidden from us with clouds, we fly and on the way, we are satisfied with bread and quenchour thirst with very little wine. In the oil-tree do we seek the answer.. "
We fly on the clouds from the shores touching the white apple of the moon
and the red apple of the Sun!
The clouds are just like little horses with white manes!
“Clouds! You run like the wind! Do not look at us from above, make us rise up..!!" - And we fly into the space, that is behind the clouds... Imagine? One Star descends to us silently and it remains in our hand like a daisy...
We've moved, changed, studied and trained for a reason: to be happier than the world we live in, to use our skill to have Justice in our life, and to accept the risks.
As warriors for people, land, Earth, it's our obligation to share our Happiness and Justice.
Service is selflessness - the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in world today.
We cannot praise those, who do nothing, or those who gather together not for the better, but for the worse.
In modern world, when people gather together, there are divisions among them.
At Vir-kun-en.com, in our Environment, in our midst there are those who pass/have passed with honor the test of life. The people who appear in Vir-kun-en.com's Environment - and others who we don't know - are our role models, our Stars. They live out the ideas expressed in the Bible : "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13), “One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much" (Luke 16:10)
We gather together to celebrate great people who lived before us. They shoveled the shit so we, our Network, our families, so the Sicily, can see the Stars, have what we have and live the way we do.
We gather in our Environment not to eat or drink simply.
Our Environment is not for relaxation and excellent food.
Our Environment is not to get an excellence of accomodation. Our Environment is for sustainabile celebration of our Stars, the Sicilian Mediterranean Stars, first of all: Leucaspis, Ducetius, Calogerus the Anchorite, Sciascia, Caravaggio, Empedocles, Archimedes, Aeschylus, Macalda di Scaletta, Gorgias, Italo Calvino, Enzo Maiorca, Paolo Orsi, Salvatore Maniscalco, Vincenzo Consolo, Giorgio La Pira, Di Blasi who wrote about happiness - and many many others.
They are the Stars of the Land where we live in.
Vir-kun-en.com without Stars is like clothing without buttons.
Vir-kun-en.com gathers Salons, using A.I. talks to great antiquefiguers to address the urgent questions of men and women of today.
Salons and AI are just a part of the mission for which our Network was created.
"...the wisdom from above is indeed first pure, then peaceable, gentle,reasonable, full of mercy and of good fruits, impartial, sincere" (James 3:17)
Vir-kun-en.com underlines the need to breathe fresh air into the Environment we are in and to renew ourselves because our era needs to be renewed.
We need to change our consciousness, our mentality. Change can happen if everyone realizes that his/her contribution is needed. Changing our mind/brain is not something we do only for ourselves — it is something we do also for others, for our land and for the Earth. We don't have to like It, we just have to do It.
All the great prophets and sages of history knew this, Jesus Christ as well as our Stars, the Buddha, Mohammed as well as Zoroaster, Bahá'u'lláh the same as Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard de Chardin, Giorgio La Pira and the Dalai Lama.
Let's reverse the terms. Not so much "Our Stars like God" but "God like our Stars".
Because our Stars are like Christ. Here, to understand this correctly, let's keep in mind that Christ reveals to us how God "works": the humanity of Christ who welcomes and bends over people whose life has somehow hurt, his welcoming without any prejudice, his compassion that opens even to the "enemy", his taking care of the life - every day reveals and reveals the face of God to us.
For Christ there are no worthy people, people who "deserve" (finally, the categoryof "merit" dies with Jesus Christ!): God does not look at merits (which not everyone can boast, for the most varied reasons), but at needs (which we all are all full of).
“We have always said: the edifice of peace requires the peace of peoples with God, first of all."
Giorgio La Pira
Having understood this, Vir-kun-en.com "goes on and does the same".
Each of our team is an explorator, an innovator of the Path, apart from the rules, established by the modern world.
“Ignorance is the night of the mind,
but a night without moon and star.”
Confucius
Each of us individually and we together in our Network (team) is a unique person. Our meaning of existence consists in following a heavy path of our Stars. This following can change each of us, defeat death, bring joy, success and happiness.
We are leaven through a spirit of our Stars which incarnates in various realities to live them with the love of our Stars and thus transfigures our present reality.
The Value of our WE is high, because we are full of Stars. Talent and passion are only useful tools if we have the Value to back them up.
It is heavy to create the best version of yourself.
It matters. But bit it’s hard. It is not easy to rise to a Value. It is courageous to live above the common level of life. And not everyone can handle it.
Not everyone is a good fit for this role.
“everything in war is simple, but the simple things are difficult.”
Carl von Clausewitz
It is difficult because we may have to admit failure.
It’s difficult because the right decision may affect our friends and colleagues.
It’s difficult because we may not personally benefit from doing what’s right.
Yeap, it’s difficult, but it's right.
Plutarch said: "The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
Vir-kun-en.com believes the same.
According to us, our mind/brain is the epicenter of our growth. We desire with desire to master our mind/brain.
How do we take control of our mind/brain and avoid the chaos the world throws at us at every moment? Well, we strengthen our mind in silence and control our thoughts. If we can do so, we will remain Happy in any difficult situation and are able to make Justice.
Vir-kun-en.com is attracted by the taste of bread,
the color of blood,
the smell of goodness
and the joy from a sip of wine! All this is simple and right!
All this springs from the vital Spirit!
“When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom; by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge. (Proverbs 21:11)
B.O.W - Bread, Olive Oil & Wine - a Mediterranean Trilogy, ancient ingredients full of history and flavours. Bread, olive oil and wine are three ingredients of the Mediterranean Lifestyle that have been with us for eight thousand years. They’re rooted in our culture and part of our daily lives. But how well do we really know the mand do we accord them the importance they deserve?
...is needed to breathe, to use the Enneagram of each of us!
"If you breathe, I breathe..." - as if our Stars tell us...
B.O.W
... is needed to have eyes, so deep and wet, like two mountain lakes!
B.O.W
... is needed to speak and answer silently when words are not needed.
B.O.W
... is needed to build the dialogue for which words are not enough.
The dialogue that is the bridge between hearts/souls!
B.O.W
... is as if we are going on the Milky Way bridge and our souls, free as clouds, are flewing towards their common shore...
B.O.W
We BOW before our Stars. Why?
Because of one response of one Star. It may be the best response that we ever heard.
“No one else was doing it, so it was up to me.” It is the essence of Sua Sponte...
Xerxes wanted to know why the three hundred Spartans had fought so hard. Why had they sacrificed everything for this King Leonidas? What was it about the king that made him such a great leader? And the Spartan replied:
“A king does not abide within his tent while his men bleed and die upon the field. A king does notdine while his men go hungry, nor sleep when they stand at watch upon the wall. A king does not command his men’s loyalty through fear nor purchase it with gold; he earns their love by the sweat of his own back and thepains he endures for their sake. That which comprises the harshest burden, a king lifts first and sets down last. A king does not require service of those he leads but provides it to them...”
"Then beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity—I mean the true simplicityof a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character".
Plato
Bread, Oil and Wine for the rest of your life isn't sobad!
We become addicted to B.O.W Simple-Hard Experience!
“A religion is not the church a man goes to but the cosmos he lives in.”
Chesterton
We live in B.O.W Cosmos! Our sensation has become perception, our perception has become concept, and now the ordered sequence of concepts becomes our thought. Thought is connection, harmonization, orchestration of individual concepts, to thepoint of forming with them an architecture, a dwelling of the mind from which to have a “vision of the world”.
Infact, only the ordered and hierarchical succession of concepts can be called Thought, as when we say “the thoughtof Aristotle”, “the thought of Tolstoy, “the thought of Gandhi”.
Having a thought, a vision of the world, a philosophy, a religion, a system of values, a spirituality: everyone uses the terms he/she prefers, the essential thingis to aim for a perspective that allows us to be in the world without passively undergoing it but understanding itand living it actively, as far as possible. Whoever is able to put together and organize a logical structure, which ishis/her own Vision, is important, because it means that he/she has something own on which to base his/her life.
“For men only one law and one goal apply: the law of love and the reward of love. All the rest is falsehood and meaningless.”
Giorgio La Pira