Description: CHITTAUM is a take-action community. Our members reflect on our conditioning and conditions, then suggest ways to help ourselves, our fellow beings, and our environment. We debate which suggestions are the best choices to integrate into our daily lives.
Human beings are born helpless and incomplete. Our entire life we remain wanting—for being alive means having needs which create desires.
"If our stomach is empty, we'll feel hungry—i.e., we'll desire food. We can't help but desire food, it's part of being physically alive..." ( Kaufman, 2001, p. 366 )
To stay alive—our body constantly tries to fulfil its physiological need by balancing oxygen, water, food, activity, sleep, and maintaining the correct body temperature. Without the essentials our body can survive for only