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"Life is Easy"

"Life is easy" says Jon Jandai. "Why do we have to make it so difficult?" After pursuing "success" in Bangkok for several years, Jo dropped out of university to return to village life. There, he went back to the life he knew as a child, working 2 months of the year to grow rice (with an additional 15 minutes a day to grow vegetables), dug a couple of fish ponds, built his own homes using earthen bricks, and gave up buying clothes (he has so many clothes from friends and visitors that he has to give them away). Jo contends that to be happy, we cannot just rely on money; we have to reconnect with each other.

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    Elmer

    Thanks Jon for sharing such inspiring life experienced ...

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    Robert

    When we all wake up and realize that the "pursuit" of consumerism.. is just making the wealthy wealthier and we are all slaves to the system instead of taking the time to learn what gifts we have within ourselves, to develop those gifts and talents and share these gifts and talents not for the economic gain but for what they are. Bankers and managers of companies are gifted but their talents are wasted blinded by greed. To be paid a "fair" wage for your efforts and do things because you enjoy doing it. Not because you want to become richer.

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    Prakash Yeshwant Tendulkar

    His message to laed a simple life and be peaceful and close to nature.

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    Max

    What inspired you about this video? What a beautiful man...what a beautiful mind and heart

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    KaZ Sat Siri Akers

    Words to live by and an inspiring life. Simplicity is beautiful and peaceful.

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    Climus

    he is the real teacher original thoughts actions simple humble..what I need self respect & courage to follow only to follow him

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    Polly P

    His focus on the need for connecting is well taken. Often I can have too much focus on accumulation. However, he has land, shelter, and apparently health care. For many of us we are working 80 hours to get the basics

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    Joe D

    The choice he made works for him. However, when you have people depending on you for food,shelter... the choice is not somple as that

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    Beth Ann Wodstrup

    I was just thinking about whether life was easy, and sometimes it isn't..and so I googled "life is easy"...and found Jon Jandai! He's just made my day because I feel so like him today! Thank you for inspiring me Jon ! :-)

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    Ravi Gandhi

    Why to make life so complicated.. I am sure u will like it… simple man story.. Life is Easy…. by Jon Jandai..

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    Marie A.

    The four basic need: food, house, clothes and medicine, must be cheap and easy for everybody. That's the civilization. But if we make these four things hard for many people to get, that's being uncivilized.

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    Lauren

    This is beautiful! He is right, and fortunate to live in a country where he can do this.

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    Praveen

    This man simply carries away my mind....

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    Praveen

    Being simple....Great

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    Sutheeporn

    Right! "Life is easy but mostly we lost to be difficult.

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    Guidance

    Just reading these words makes me wanna cry..very inspiring!

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    Kunuthur Srinivasa Reddy

    Living Inspirably Freely Enjoyfully is the art of life particularly for human species and this privilege is less for other forms of life on Earth. Whereas the human mind craving for material wealth and never ending desires makes it miserable and selfdestructive to itself and others around. The lifestyle of Jon Jandai is a conceptual model that reflects in true spirit the simplicity,humility,giving culture and naturality of life.It is worthy of emulation by all.

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    Spongebob

    Walter, why would you blame capitalism? You aren't forced to be involved in the free markets. Live whatever life you want and let everyone else live the life's they want. Don't blame the worlds woes on capitalism.

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    Dipendra

    Amazing, the first word which came in my mind, and the second word was disgusting. we came in this world with easiness, and learned how to make life complex. and when someone dares to live simple we say amazing. I think that i will have to think again because simplicity is universal truth, which we have forgotten. thanks for sharing the clip.......

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    Harsha

    use bicycle save the head ache of speeding tickets and parking tickets... and be healthy and be normal... I am healthy enough to be happy with my bicycle :)

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    Rosa

    I am inspired by the words to Simplify, Simplify,Simplify and not keep printing unnessarly wasting paper which now leads to clutter.

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    Jay

    This guy is a Buddha

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    walter weston

    I blame capitalism for making life hard, everything is dependent on money. And the people who have all the money because they want to be the only ones who benefit , SEE to it , that other people are miserable, all because of profit. if we abolished the monetary system or changed it the world would be a better place.

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    Carla

    the construct of the mind keeps us trapped in suffering. dissolve the ego and stay in the present and be free.

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    Anil Laud

    A friend sent me the URL.

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    Robbi Lankin

    The simplicity of thought,the message revealed and the possible, very positive outcome (action involved). All very inspiring and possible to Live Life Simply and have our basic needs met. Thank You Jon Jandai for your sense of humor and sweet reminder that Life is Easy if we believe this to be true, have the right intention and put our heart and mind to task.

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    Alina Khama-Nyane

    What a wonderful approach! I love the fact that this "light" has the capacity to simplify what we make complex. I felt ensconsed in his good vibrations. Lovely x

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    Debalina Roy

    Today onwards, this is my motto 'Life is easy'.It has inspired me to set a side all issues and perturbations to enjoy the smooth flow of simple life.

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    Ganesh

    Jon's presentation was exceptionally inspiring. Thank you, Karmatube; thank you Jon. The message from the Bhagvad-Gita embodies the same message - simple living, high thinking. Human body is a rare opportunity to understand who you are, to understand you are part of the Supreme and to understand that that Supreme Lord loves you. It's not meant to toil hard like the hogs and asses - where is food? where is food? We need to make our lives simple and use it to achieve higher grades of happiness. I was born and brought up in the city and I used to spend time in the country side when I was a child, during my summer vacations. Although, I don't know farming and other skills to live in the country-side, I am determined to make my living in the city simple in my own way.

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    Lorenzo Kunwon

    "I think life is indeed simple. It is we human that that try to make it difficult by a habitual thinking that the more you get the happier you become."

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    G Narayana

    We can live life Simple, far simple than we can believe. It only requires to change our mindset and learn to understand life from nature.

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    Rajiv Bariar

    In this fast growing life people forgot their origin, so sometime back to origin is good to life & this is nature rule that the more you want the tough is life

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    Paula

    This message is so inspiring and so true. The actions he describes may not be possible in many parts of the world but the truth of his message is that we can live much more simply than we do by changing our minds. We all have the choice to simplify.

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    N.A.F.

    it is true that we can't only rely on money but also reconnect to people? but what if the people don't have quality to be reconnected? I disconnected 70% of relatives and they call me to reconnect them but I don't think they will be better than I knew.

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    Cressa

    awsome reminds me that only I can empower my self only I can choose what kind of life I want to live thai I can choose to live easy life , even haveing a home is possible. As I watched some birds fly from their nest last spring I thought how complicated humans homes have become. This video makes me think having home making home is possible and can be simple Thankyou

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    Daya

    I would be bored out of my wits if the only options are to do things around your own commune. I would fly to the far corners of the world, connect, share and enjoy life fully and I can be a physician, artist, teacher, cab driver or a used truck salesman and enjoy what I am doing and not crib about everything possible that I can decry. I loved my time in university and disagree that the tools acquired are all destructive. What we choose to do with the tools that higher education provides us is up to us. Jon, thank you, but I am quite happy selling used trucks, paying a mortgage, buying stuff that make me happy, sharing and connecting with people across the world thanks to the internet, airplanes, modern medicine none of which are possible if we all sit around gossiping about sisters-in-law after a siesta.

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    Michele

    Less is more.

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    Brian

    Thanks guys...yes, he really has it figured out :-) Food, shelter, clothes and medicine....anything else is uncivilized.... All the best...thanks for the new Karma tube...Peace, healthful, joyful blessings. Brian

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    Yogesh

    The contented man is the richest man in the world I love Jon's quote, 'I cannot manage anything outside myself but I can manage my mind' this is so true - I would also add - what anyone else thinks of me is none of my business.

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    Sue

    We have made life so complicated that it's hard to grasp this concept of "easy" but it is attainable. It just depends on how committed we are to doing it. It's a new learning process....or un-learning. I've been working on this for a year now and I have a long way to go. But, I'm enjoying the journey.

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    Pam

    This is really interesting and inspiring, but I feel like there are some things he is not acknowledging. First and foremost, he has access to land! That, and I'm guessing a plentiful supply of clean water as well. Those are the true sources of his wealth. I don't know how land tenure works in Thailand, but for most of us getting access to land puts us in exactly the same 30-year debt trap as buying a house. And if your water supply is uncertain or your soil is poor? It's not going to be so easy.

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    Barbara

    I have been laid off from my job and my anxiety has increased my concerns about how and what I will do to provide for my family. I have been looking at what I have lost and seeing what I have. Jon's words enable me to change my mind set. Thank You

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    Sarah Forsythe

    This is it! I am looking to start homesteading with our kids - I am a physician but I will never encourage my kids to get industrialized and debt ridden by higher education. We homeschool and teach the real history of the US before it was rewritten to suit industry. The earth is a garden of eden if we don't get in the way:) Peace --I believe the people can change the world by the choice to be a consumer or not --stop consuming and we don't have a huge government run by resource snatching companies that create wars throughout the world...the people can do it.

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    Janis Horwedel

    The Plain truth. We need less government, and more of a personal constitution. Money is empty when you're full. Are we full? Jon spoke the truth about it all. It is simple and belongs tous all.

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    T

    Love it. Jon is the richest man alive!

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    Pat Chiappa

    You have to love someone who places so much emphasis on whether or not something is fun. Fun isn't always about silly, it's also lightness, being carefree, enjoyment, beauty, simple, joyous, love.....

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    Love

    I agree 100%! I've lived an effortless lifestyle for a decade. People think something is wrong with me since I'm not in debt, not a work-a-holic, and live a blissful loving lifestyle. Oh, I have little to no stress. Great video!

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    bilkis

    yes i think he is very right, in persuit of material needs, we forget our roots and do not connect with our loved ones.What gives you real happiness is your own people and a simple life with fewer needs gives you peace, good health and a longer life.

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    Lina

    Such simple, sweet wisdom he shares. It's so easy in the midst of our seemingly complex world to go with the idea of complexity, and yet when we break it down to the basics, to what's really important, as he says, life is easy. It is a matter of choice!

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    vinod eshwer heera lal

    this is the life i am working towards! letting go and simplifying to whatever extent it is possible. one day i hope to live like Jon.

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    Sujata

    I am Very Joyful that he is one of the centers of change the earth needs. Now to solve the issue how to take the vision and work it in an industrialized ownership driven western society that demands conformity, where even buying a piece of land takes one 30 years and forces you to conform to its set rules of money earning. Every aspect of western life has to be re-structured all in small pockets that can enlarge and mushroom to take in the whole or other pockets to change. I have educational degrees Master levels but there is nothing out there i want to or willing to do - just for the fact it makes me sick on all levels. I am not a lazy person, when i find something i like to do i give it my all even forgetting to eat and sleep. The hardness keeps me at bay. His entire speech is true for every human today. I would love to spend time at his center. Thank you Jon Jandai for being the change and the courage to do it.

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    Jane

    I think most of what he says is true. We tend to make our lives more difficult than they need to be. We all have so much, but do we really "need" it all to survive? I wonder.

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    Tom Duffy

    A thoughtful presentation that gives me some food for thought - Life is Easy. At a time in history when having, getting, accumulating, materialism has become the basis for life in so many lives... his message beckons to me to become part of the Common Good. I enjoyed this talk very much.

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    carol

    What he said was so true! but the countryside of Thailand is a far cry from living in a city in the UK. I have lived in the country of Malaysia and what he does is so much easier to do there! but in my country other than being at peace within yourself we have to pay the bills.

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    Sab

    line to reflect: We make it hard for who?

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  •  Pun Pun Center for Self Reliance is a small organic farm, seed saving center and sustainable living and learning center started by Jon Jandai and his wife.
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