OUR MISSION

The New Monk Project is a global community of contemplatives embracing spiritual traditions attuned to the divinity within all beings.

Our Mission is to build human bridges between ancient wisdom traditions and the ecological integral spirituality that we are helping to create.

The Purposes of the Project

  1. To affirm and manifest in a new way the value and validity of the contemplative experience as a necessary balance to our excessively action-oriented culture, and to give witness to the unity and fundamental interdependence of all beings.
  2. To move the contemplative conciousness into all aspects of ordinary life via a structural bridge such as the organization would offer.
  3. To demonstrate that ultimate spiritual values lie beyond the realm of ideology. Loving relationships with the Divine, other persons and all beings will be given precedence over difference of belief.
  4. To further the cause of world peace by illustrating this unity of heart and spirit in a community where people from various traditions live together in harmony.
  5. To work toward establishing good and healthy relations betwen men and women by eliminating stereotyping and culturally conditioned attitudes.
  6. To promote an understanding of our deaths as a progression to a new life and thus provide the right environment for this event in the lives of our members.
  7. To provide an educational framework for and demonstration of an "ecospiritually" based living system. Ecospirituality is defined as a balanced application of human ecology, permaculture technology, sustainable energy and resource management combined with spiritual practice and insight.

Hallmarks

Concepts, principles and characteristics that will inform and distinguish The New Monk Project and all its works.

  1. UNITY IN DIVERSITY and its corollary, FLUIDITY IN STABILITY, as a river flows within its banks.
  2. CIRCULARITY IN GOVERNANCE - A quaker-like pattern of shared responsibility and leadership.
  3. OPENNESS AND DEVOTION TO THE CREATOR SPIRIT - A conscious listening to the inner Wisdom, and a daring to follow it.
  4. FREEDOM FROM PREJUDICE, DOGMA AND PAST ASSUMPTIONS - A transcendence of the old paradigms, freedom to accept or reject out of new awareness.
  5. RADICAL SIMPLICITY - The beauty of the bare essential.
  6. A POSITIVE ASCESIS - Focusing on the DO rather than the DON'T.
  7. ORGANICITY - a process method of growth, among other things.