Kathy Blanchard: There’s a unique bond when you’re all naked together. You laugh, you play volleyball, you share meals, and suddenly you’re friends with people you’d never have met otherwise. Nudity makes everyone approachable.
There are many situations where clothing serves no functional purpose.
Clothing has many uses, like keeping us warm and protecting us when we do certain types of work.
Our simple idea is this: when clothing isn’t useful, it should be optional.
History changes when enough people quietly decide: there has to be another way.
There is another way besides the current status quo, in which people assume that their body, and the bodies of others, are inherently shameful and obscene.
Let’s move on from that harmful assumption
We Can Change the World - His Holiness the Dalai Lama believes we have everything we need to make the 21st century a peaceful, compassionate century — and it starts with each one of us. Through education, awareness, and nurturing our inner peace and compassion, we can transform our families, our communities, and our world. Video originally recorded on April 18, 2012.
We need a revolution.
Not a violent, political revolution, but a revolution in how we think and live as a species.
Throwing off the shackles of body shame, through naturism and other means, is an important aspect of “leveling up” human consciousness.