This "automatically" happens in Asoke communities because the thing that brings most of them together is an desire to work on personal, spiritual development. They join the community for that and then the tasks of living in and supporting the community are secondary.

So the challenge we face in practical terms is to create the conditions under which people (which people apart from households of children?) can make that choice - keeping in mind that in making that choice people will be choosing to move out into the wilderness onto land that is not their own, to invest of themselves in a concept that is completely foreign, new and unproven to them.

I have some rough ideas on how we might think about this in practical terms. I wonder first if anyone else has insights/thoughts into how to practically create the conditions under which such a personal, life-changing choice can be made.