4.　Why do we seek cooperative living?

 Why do we grow our food,build our own lodgings,
make handicrafts,work together through the year and share
our lives together?  The answaer,of cousrse ,is to survive
and to gain income. Then, how does each indivisual change
through a life like this?  Each person will grope patiently
to discover one's hidden possibilities.  But most importantly
we must recognize that through cooperative living we grow
so as to be able to accept ourselves as we are and to appreciate
our lives which are saved both physically and spiritually. 
  We bilieve that these are the basics in constrcting
a better society.

 The following are more concrete answers to the qestions
raised.

a) For those who are spoiled at home -- to be able to go
    through the difficulties and do what they should do by
    themselves.

b) For those who reject going to school -- to be able to
    become brave enough to face the fact that he or she must
    go to school.

c) For those who have lost confidence in themselves and have
    become deprressed because of physical handicaps or of
    suffering fits  --to become healthy.

d)  For those who have no families nor relatives   -- to overcome
    the loneliness and to grow.

e) For those who have trouble reading or who are bad at
    arithmetic or who are clumsy  -- to be able to do what they
    want to do with their own will.

f) For those who tend to be dishonest  --  to become strong
    enough to restrain from telling a life.

g) For those who often steal from others without much feeling
    -- to be able stir and strengthen their own conscinece.

h) For those who are selfish and lazy  -- to learn  not to make
   exucuses and to work honestly and hard.

i)  For those who value money the most  --  to be able to understand
   the value of invisible thing.

j)  For those who blame others all the time -- to respect others.

k)  For those who are confined to a wordless word -- to try
   to communicate by opening their heart and using words.

l) For those who are burdened by a fate not of their own
   knowing  -- to learn to live their own responsible life.

m) For those who set the criteria established by others into
     the center of their lives  --to learn to live their own
     life,not being afraid of others.

n)  For those who always put themselves first  --to appreciate
    others and to live for others.

o) For those who are inflexible and cannot believe others  -- to
   become brave and to believe others.



   Kyodogakusha is not a place where somebody forces
  others to change their behaviours or beliefs,but is a
  place where everybody makes efforts to attain the objects
  stated above.

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Tokyo Address
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