TEDxDoiSuthep - Jon Jandai - Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?

Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and rare seeds back into use. It regularly hosts training on simple techniques to live more sustainably. Outside of Pun Pun, Jon is a leader in bringing the natural building movement to Thailand, appearing as a spokesperson on dozens of publications and TV programs for the past 10 years. He continually strives to find easier ways for people to fulfill their basic needs. For more information visit http://www.punpunthailand.org

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[ablears]

Truly inspirational. Modern society is a shared delirium - it's only real if we decide it to be. Let's return to simplicity.

[EDTHEWATERGUY]

This supposedly uneducated man is smarter than most of the sheep in the U.S.

[денис каракчиев]

Ребята, мне нужны субтитры!!! Пожжааааалуйста =(

I need a subtitles!!! Pleeeeeeease =(

[GorJess JessyMarie]

Made my day <3 I love Thailand !!!!!!!

[michael castaneda]

This life I want to be..

[divertthedirt]

This is one of my favorite videos...ever. :)

[joseph mengele]

ohhhh shutup. farmers got it easy cause the cows dont talk back.

[Autosynthesise]

0 Dislikes. That says it all really. This man is a genius.

[kimono38]

I think he questioning the "need" of education. Phone, car, economic, tall building..these aren't the basic need for human to survive but somehow become "necessity" in our life. Everyone must have a car, a house in city, a job that pay well, oh, standard cloth from Zara, a bigger car when you have children, eat something good and pricey. OR, we can live without those and be happy like Pun.

[songbirdy89]

beautiful .. so true <3

[johnnymexica]

I love all the single women in Thailand.

Any westerner who goes there for the scenery may be trying to fool u.

[cigarKK]

I want to understand his philosophy but I can't. How could he educate next generation and the next ? He had the choice, but his kids and grand kids have choice too ?