ASA CREW VOL.4

เวลาผมอยู่กับป่า ผมไม่กล้าพูดว่าผมสร้างท่านขึ้นมา
ผมพูดได้แค่เพียงว่า ช่วยผมหน่อย ช่วยบอกและสอนผม
ช่วยทำให้ผมมีความรู้หน่อยเถอะ เพื่อที่ผมจะได้นำความรู้นี้
มาช่วยท่านอีก นี่คือสิ่งที่ผมพูดกับป่า
: แล้วในแง่ของการปลูกคนล่ะครับ คุณมี
วิธีการพัฒนาคนยังไงบ้าง
ธนญชัย : ต้นไม้ที่ขึ้นดีที่สุด เราต้องดูแลเขาแต่พอดี
ต้องปล่อยให้เขาเจอปัญหา เจอลมบ้าง เขาต้องเจอรากคลอน
บ้าง ต้องเจอใครบังแสงเขาบ้าง เมื่อไหร่ก็ตามที่ีใครบังแสง
เขาก็ต้องพยายามกระเสือกกระสนเพื่อที่จะรับแสงแดดให้ได้
แล้วสภาวะนั้นเขาเรียกว่าท ำให้มีพลังชีวิต ทำให้เขาแข็งแกร่ง
ขึ้น เพราะฉะนั้นการปลูกคนหรือการให้ความคิดคน จะต้อง
ให้คนนั้นนำความคิดนั้นไปขบคิด แล้วต้องปล่อยให้เขาไป
เผชิญหน้ากับความทุกข์และความยากลำบาก เรื่องนี้ไม่มี
ทางลัด เพราะเมื่อคนเจอปัญหาจะเกิดพลังชีวิต และเกิด
กระบวนการพัฒนา และเกิดปัญญา
แต่เรื่องที ่สำคัญอีกเรื่องคือ ไม้แต่ละต้น คนแต่ละคน
ก็ไม่เหมือนกัน มีความถนัดความชอบไม่เหมือนกัน เราเอา
ต้นไม้ภูเขาไปปลูกริมน้ำไม่ได้ เขาถูกออกแบบมาไม่
เหมือนกัน ถ้าเราศึกษาและเข้าใจเขา เราจะรู้ว่าเขาอยู่ตรงไหน
จะพัฒนาได้เร็วที่สุด นี่คือสิ่งที่เราจะช่วยเขาได้ดีที่สุดให้เขา
มีพื้นที่ของเขา ให้เขาพัฒนาตัวเองในวิถีของเขา จนพึ่งพา
ตัวเองได้และสามารถออกดอกออกผล เผื่อแผ่ให้กับผู้อื่น
Every book says it needs 2 important things to see
the truth. The first is open mind and the second is a
mirror. We have to have open mind because the truth
may not be like what we think nor expect. If we don’t
open our mind, the truth can’t reach us. The clearer
mirror we use, the more clearly we can see the truth.
had talked to Mr.Tor – Thanonchai Sornsriwichai,
a world class director and Cannes Lion winner, about
the real meaning of Core Value, architects, and self
development.
: The word “Core Value” is used more
often nowadays, what does it mean in your opinion?
Thanonchai : (Thinking) “I think it means “the real
value” or “the truth”. No matter how long the time passes,
it will always be the truth.”
: What is the significance of “Core
Value” or “the truth”?
Thanonchai : The core value is the truth. When we
understand the core value of something, we will know
what not the matter. We will be able to cut off the fake
easily because we see the core, the beauty, and the
truth inside. Such as the core value of the locomotion,
it is moving from one place to another, so that we don’t
really need a car, we can walk, crawl, roll, creep, hop,
etc. The communication, for example, there’re not just phone
or Line application. There are many ways to get a person
to understand what we want to communicate. Talking,
looking at each other, or eye-contacting are communication.
They might be better because talking face to
face makes us know if that person is speaking the truth
or not, feeling it or not. Human beings have sense in soul
and feeling. I think this kind of communication is very
sensitive and much more useful.
: How can we understand what is the
core value of that thing?
Thanonchai : I always find the way to answer that
question. We need to focus on the right and useful
questions. Train to ask many questions that will bring you
to understand the core of any topic. However, we can’t
just do questioning, we also have to practice, prove, and
confront the problems, find the ways and the reasons.
The process of finding reasons will bring us to the deeper
sources. The more we find the deeper we go, deep to
the core, then we will get the right solution. The key is not
to be exhausted. Questioning and practicing until it’s in
your daily life. For example, if I was sick, I didn’t take
medicines because I found out medicines are not the
solution. My friend suggested me drink the urine so I
went on studying until I found a video of doctor Kheaw.
Doctor Kheaw’s explanation made it easy to understand.
He said that in the Tripitaka – Buddhist Scriptures, drinking
urine is curing like taking serum or vaccine. So I tried
drinking urine. While trying, I felt my body was getting
better myself. I tried to walk instead of driving a car. I
had walked around Bangkok for a year, and I found out
that walking can make me strong, make me see and
understand life and other people better. So, you have
to prove, feel, and consider it yourself to see and to
understand the core value. I always warn myself that I
am an unenlightened, weak and dumb. No matter what
people say about me, I know that I still need more
development. The maids, guards, or workmen know
something better than I, even they had finished just
Grade 4.
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The most important thing is to review ourselves and
our knowledge all the time. We have to question on
those beliefs. Don’t forget that we have a short life. Once
we were born, we were taught and planted some ideas.
We live among the environment of the society, popularity,
which we have to admit that many things are getting
worse. We have to think back how we were in former
time and how we are now. If you believe that the main
education system we have now is good, I would like to
ask you why the world is getting worse, why the morality
and ethics are deteriorating.
: Let’s use the house designing for an
example, what is the core value of designing a house?
Thanonchai : We have to start at the question
“What is a house?”. A house means a place to live, there’s
a “place” and there’s “living”, and the next question is how
they live. People live by eating, breathing, touching, etc.
We are talking about senses, 6 sense doors (Ayatana 6).
A good residence must help the dwellers to eat well, to
have fresh air to breath, to see green trees for relaxation,
to have good health. So when we reach this, we should
get back to question how to make a good dwelling for
those requirements.
Nowadays we say “we design the house to serve
the owner’s requirement”. What does the word “serve”
mean? “Serve” means answer, fulfill, and satisfy the
need of the owner. Is that need good? It’s up to the
architect’s choices, to build a good dwelling or a place
that “serves” the owner.
: But the owners want their houses to
look cool, like those western awarded houses in magazines,
if the architects don’t do that, he will not get the job.
Thanonchai : Sometimes the owners or our customers
stuck in popularity, in the fascination, in the forms and
lines, in the delusion of ignorance. They don’t know that
those forms might make them live unhappily. They just
have a beautiful house to show off, collect many expensive
things, many rooms, many electrical appliances, a lot of
assets. In fact, all of those make us nervous, make us
check on maids, make us need burglar alarm, guards,
need to check the close circuit TV on cell phones many
times a day. Even we know that we all will die, we can’t
take anything with us, but we allow to make our life time
filled with stress. At this point, someone might say “I’m
rich, it’s not your business.”, then I have to apologize
but I want those rich men to think a bit, for their better
sustainable lives.
If I were an architect, I will study hard and smart
to make the best dwelling. What “the best job” means?
It depends on what we think the core value of our work
is. If our highest value is the acceptance from the westerns,
we should design a fantastic house, like those in magazines.
If you want to build a house that can make the dwellers
live the best lives, you have to study, talk to the owner,
spend time to make him believe and build the best
house for his own life. This can’t give you any awards,
any fame, but the best benefit you will get is your
knowledge. You will know that paving the floor with
granite stones might look great, but it has hard surface,
is electricity conductor and can cause cancer. A house
with glass walls will need to be all air-conditioned, won’t
let your skin to be adjusted to the real air, you can get
sick often and can get liver cancer. You will start to
design a house without a television, no living room,
because sitting for a long time will make the house
owner’s muscles weak. You will start to tell the owner
to take off some ornamental plants, and bring in some
eatable plants. The owner will plant his own vegetables,
do some exercise, being stronger. They won’t waste the
space for a fitness room, because they can exercise
MAY-JUNE 2017 - ISSUE 04