Real life is simple
"What we discover when we start to see in a simpler way, when we start to accept the complexities of life, when we don't try to control life as a phenomenon, is that life is a wonderful thing. When we live simply, life offers us more: it offers us more health, more freedom of choice and, above all, it offers us more meaning."

Koho Mello on Simplicity as a path | TEDxPelourinho
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What is Simple School?

It is a community of continuous learning, with a call for personal and community transformation. In partnership, we will share practical ways to simplify life, through a lighter, more respectful and conscious routine.

How do we explore this journey?

Through online and face-to-face activities - workshops, courses, lectures and donation classes - Simple'School is a vital space, enriched by the participation and support of our community.

It is with great joy that I invite you to take part in a unique journey at Simple'School. This is a special invitation, born out of personal experiences and reflections on quality of life, health, freedom, power and contentment with life.

Conceptual References

Space-time

The effects of our relationship with space and time are inevitable and noticeable in our existence. As human beings, there's no denying that one day we were born, but we are continually growing older.

Energy

True growth is the demonstrated ability of a society to transfer ever greater amounts of energy and attention from the material aspect of life to the non-material aspect.

Relationships

Our identities are formed from our relationships, in a process of simultaneous and interdependent emergence. Any role we play in existence only manifests itself through a relational process.

Law of Progressive Simplification

"True growth is the demonstrated capacity of a society to transfer ever greater amounts of energy and attention from the material aspect of life to the non-material aspect, and thus to evolve in culture, potential for compassion, sense of community, and democratic strength."

Why the invitation to join us?

Because we accept that it is possible to live with more contentment, lightness and a renewed look at what really matters. Simplicity is a daily practice that enables a more meaningful existence, with consistent references on a conceptual level.

Jorge Koho Mello

Brazilian, 63, he has lived in Zürich (Switzerland) for 16 years, where he works as a consultant in systemic therapy and care, and in promoting quality of life based on simplifying processes. Co-ordinates the activities of the Zürich Zen CentreSoto Zen Buddhist Practice Centre, which offers both formal and informal practices. Engaged Social Buddhism and Interreligious Dialogue.

As a constructivist educatorhas dedicated itself to developing and testing a system of social economy based on Buddhist ethics and references such as E. F. Schumacher, Sulak Sivaraksa, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Satish Kumar, Vicki Robin and Charles Eisenstein.
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