《No Destination》
2013/08/02
《No Destination》
《No Destination》 by Satish Kumar
When he was only nine years old, Satish
Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering bortherhood of Jain monks.
Dissuaded from this path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen, he became a
compaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a renewed India
into reality. Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook an
8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money,
through mountains, deserts, storms and snow. It was an adventure during which
he was thrown into jail in France, faced a loaded gun in America - and
delivered packets of 'peace tea' to the leaders of the four nuclear powers. In
1973 he settled in England, taking on the editorship of Resurgence magazine,
and becoming the guiding light behind a number of ecological spiritual and
educational ventures. Following Indian tradition, in his fiftieth year he
undertook another pilgrimage: again without any money, he walked to the holy
places of Britain - Glastonbury Lindisfarne and Iona. Written with a
penetrating simplicity, No Destination is an exhilarating account of an
extraordinary life.
本書簡介：
Satish Kumar在他年僅九歲時即從世間出離，成為男性耆那教僧侶的成員。在18歲時，其內在的聲音告訴他要離開這條原本的道路。於是他加入土地改革的陣營，致力於實現甘地復甦印度的願景。之後受到伯特蘭·羅素前例的鼓舞，他開始了800哩的和平旅程－ 從印度未帶盤纏的徒步走到美洲，途中經過高山、沙漠，也遇過暴風與大雪。期間他在法國遇到牢獄之災，在美洲經歷被上膛槍指著的險境，最後終於成功將禮物－ 「和平茶」送給了當時四位核能領導者。1973年時他在英格蘭定居，並擔任Resurgence
magazine期刊的編輯，成為許多精神生態學與教育性投資幕後的導引之光。依循印度傳統，Satish
Kumar在人生的第50個年頭開始了另一個朝聖之旅，此次也是不帶分毫的徒步走訪大不列顛島至格拉斯頓伯里(Glastonbury)
Lindisfarne與Lona的聖地。全書筆觸簡樸具洞察力，《無終》(No
Destination)為其卓絕的一生令人振奮之傳記。
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