Swiss village people doesn't like foreigners. The result
from this hostile attitude was confirmed on the last Swiss referendum. This referendum showed that, in general, people from the Swiss villages are not willing to contact, nor to interact with strangers and that
they consider them a threat for their country. Instead, they prefer to restrict
the mobility of the foreigners, and if possible not to allow them to move in.
We all know that this mentality leads nowhere, and it needs change.
Therefore, I thought of a project, which might influence the
situation, and make an impact on this hostile mentality of the Swiss majority. This
project should hit a double point. Firstly, it should improve the real
integration between the two hostile groups, the villagers and the foreigners.
Second, it should introduce foreigners (with special emphasis on the young
ones) to the one of the greatest forms of yoga, karma yoga. Unselfish work for
the other, without any recoupment - is the shortest definition for this
specific type of yoga, which unfortunately is at least known in the west.
The general idea is that the two hostile groups should join
through work. The young foreigners, many of them fond of gyms, fitness, hatha
yoga and many other forms of physical practices, should once or twice a year,
use their physical abilities to help the villagers in their big working
actions. In other words, do some karma yoga for the unknown village man or
family, for free.
That would be a perfect way for the two groups, not willing
to know of one another, but willing to vote against each other, to really start
to get along. Work gathers people around mutual goal, the feeling of something
successfully finished bonds humans stronger than anything else, much stronger
than having a lunch or coffee or shopping together. The frightened men from the
villages, together with their families, via this project will get the REAL opportunity
to meet some strangers who invade their country, will get the opportunity to
work together with them and at the end of the day to finish big part of their
endless job. Even more, they will get this help, again, for free.
On the other side, the young foreigners, students for
example, will have the opportunity to offer their abundant physical abilities
to those who really need them. The daily physical gym training will be replaced
for the same, sometimes even harder physical activity, performed this time in a
non-designed space of a stable, steep meadow, village house etc. Why paying for training, when you can get it for
free?
Actually, gyms and fitness centers were the initial inspiration
for my project, and not the humiliating referendum results. The generic fitness
practices are an inevitable part of every contemporary city life style. Gyms
are spaces designed for upgrading physical and bodily performances and perhaps
transform negative energy, accumulated during the day. However, gyms and other fitness
studios are big centers of misleading focus of egoism. They represent clearly a
substitution for the childish obsession with the perfect physical outlook. They
are full of seriously determined individuals who seriously work on their
physical shape and status. Looking at them sometimes looks is like looking at disembodied
army of soldiers who forgot the connection to their primal instincts.
Doing something for
yourself is much more easier than doing something for the other. And doing
something for the other, who hates you, and wants you out of his home, is even
harder. For this you need real muscles. That’s the real challenge. Behind sexy
and powerful bodies should lie even stronger developed soul of a hero how is
willing to help, to sacrifice, to give.
The gyms and fitness centers were initially gave me inspiration
for this project. These centers of physical power should be transferred into the
villages, where power is really needed. Thus, real transformation of the
quality of life for the both groups can step into the phase of realization. We live
in a society who needs real changes from inside. Switzerland is rich enough to
survive thousands and thousands of immigrants. But both of them, the immigrant group and the group of native Swiss,
are poor, have lack of the virtue of living in a community, living together for
a mutual goal.
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