Text Box: Sonadanda Sutta 1:22 from the Digha Nikaya of Buddhism …For wisdom, O Gautama, is purified by uprightness, and uprightness is purified by wisdom. Where there is uprightness, wisdom is there, and where there is wisdom, uprightness is there. To the upright there is wisdom, to the wise there is uprightness, and wisdom and goodness are declared to be the best thing in the World. Just, O Gautama, as one might wash hand with hand, or foot with foot, just even so, O Gautama, is wisdom purified by uprightness, and uprightness is purified by wisdom. Where there is uprightness, wisdom is there, and where there is wisdom, uprightness is there. To the upright there is wisdom, to the wise there is uprightness, and wisdom and goodness are declared to be the best thing in the World.’ (Gautama): ‘That is just so, O Brahman. And I, too, say the same. But what, then is that uprightness and what that wisdom?’
Recent Progression

The specific planning for this InterFaith Settlement began through an interFaith online forum maintained by the Text Box: Arial Photograph of Kibbutz Urim (by Yad Tabenkin Archives and International Communes Desk, www.communa.org.il) Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.  Within this interFaith online forum, there was the consideration of how the message of mutual tolerance and mutual understanding can be communicated to religious adherents who have been less receptive to the notion of interFaith dialogue and cooperation.  Two of the responses that continue to be provided to this consideration are that actions are more effective than words and that such a message is more effectively communicated by example.

 

And thus the practical notion emerged of communicating the message of mutual tolerance and mutual understanding through the immediate and pragmatic interaction of respective adherents from different religious traditions within a community that is intentionally predicated Text Box: Peace Area at Auroville (by Auroville, www.auroville.org) upon such interaction.  In this way, this InterFaith Settlement is distinguished from certain urban areas where there are collections of neighbourhoods of respective adherents of different religions and from other cities, suburbs, and rural areas where respective adherents from different religious traditions reside in proximity to each other.  In each of these other circumstances, the proximity of the respective religious adherents is predicated upon additional socioeconomic circumstances that have enabled the respective adherents of different religions to effectively avoid each other when uninclined for such interFaith effort. 

 

The emphasis of this InterFaith Settlement is the intrinsic reliance that is maintained by the residents within this InterFaith Settlement.  Rather than attending a joint meeting of congregations or a townhall meeting organised by a local

official and then returning to their respective religious groups and considering how the wellbeing of their respective religious group can be maintained within the context of the aggregate actions of the city, suburb, or rural area, the wellbeing of all the respective adherents of the different religious traditions residing within this InterFaith Settlement is immediately derived from the aggregate wellbeing of all respect adherent of each respective religion residing within this InterFaith Settlement.  This is the notion of pragmatic interaction compared with polite interaction.

 

 

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