Living The Mala
Living the Mala is when we realise that instead of being pessimistic about the problem and wondering “Why don’t they fix the road? Why don’t they clean up the garbage?” we can actively choose the world we live in by contributing to the solution. We can choose not to regard our world as a reactive, ugly, complaining and disappointing place. Instead we choose to actively see and shape our world into a clean, green, nurturing, proactive and regenerative environment.
Living Mala Projects
Many of our projects have developed from and support our event ‘theme days’. Others reflect our community and relate to networking the people who have helped the Samui Mala as volunteers or as host venues or as supporters.
On October 4th, a week after the Samui Mala final celebration, our first Samui Mala project for 2009 was launched at Ban Thai beach. This was a Biorock installation to regenerate a reef and we hope it will serve as a prototype for many more on the island.
On the same afternoon we met to explore ways to make www.samuimala.org a virtual portal to an alternate view of Samui island – a way to both present and support a new way of living in our world. We will feature events, people, forums, blogs, activities and places that support this vision. We hope you will bookmark this site as it grows with the input of a whole collective of people who care and share on Samui.
Our first meeting for the fledgling ‘healing circle’ that grew out of the Samui Mala healing forum at Kamalaya was held November 7 at the Kamalaya Yantra Hall. A healing clinic is being planned, and another healing circle meeting will meet on January 16th at Absolute Sanctuary.
On October 4, 2009: a Samui Mala / Biorock prototype project to regenerate the reef was launched at Ban Thai beach. Samui Mala hopes to continue this kind of work on other beaches on the island.
On October 4, 2009 a process started to develop the Samui Mala website as a virtual portal to an alternate Samui, including directories of resources, people, events and information.
A regular healing circle is currently being established featuring healing activities, workshops and activities.
On Sunday November 1, members of GIDOA the ‘green’ dive operators on Samui, responding to an urgent call for help channeled via the Samui Mala, volunteered to remove a fishing net entangled on the reef at Laem Sor. In addition, it was decided that future actions like this could be incorporated into educational outings for children.
Samui Mala has helped a supplier offering home delivery of fresh and local food that is organic, tasty or home made with love to find support to start the business and will promote this service via mailing lists and the website.
Samui Mala is working on ways to support regular day yoga retreats.
Samui Mala is promoting and contributing to a series of educational talks, inspirational and educational movies at June’s café in Bophut.
Samui Mala is helping to promote and network contacts for a growing recycled tealight project.
Samui Mala is talking to educators about continuing educational work with children during the year, especially Blue Water School and the “Low Carbon Schools’ of the Thai Hotel Association. Samui
Samui Mala is in discussions with the Thai Hotel Association on ways to contribute to their Green fingers club along with representatives of the municipality and media.
These projects and more support our "living the mala" philosophy, where we all begin to see that health, change and wellbeing are not just part on an annual event, but integral to our lives and lifestyles.
Living Mala Media:
Samui Mala inspired a feature about the Healing Art exhibition at Kamalaya which appeared in November in the Nation newspaper.
Samui Insight TV produced a video about the Samui Mala
A feature about ‘Can Samui stay Green’ was written and produced by Samui Mala for Kinnaree Samui Issue 1, a new interactive online magazine.
Paul Hawkens reminds us: “At present we are stealing from the future and selling it in the present and calling it GDP. We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it.”
Enjoy the rest of the videocasts and feel free to share yours on our pages so we may make the living mala a reality for all those visiting these pages.
The shooting, production and uploading of these videocasts were donated by Martin Amada of Sitca Productions who shared his skills as a gift to Samui Mala. Martin produces promotional and documentary video as well as screenwriting, directing and editing, rents video rigs and can you create similar content for you.