# commune > A commune built on community values, simple living, clean eating and human connection. --- ## Pages - [Privacy Policy](https://commune.pk/privacy-policy): TDLR; There is nothing to worry about. Who we are Our website address is: https://commune. pk. Comments When visitors leave... - [Discover Mark Boyle](https://commune.pk/resources/mark-boyle): Mark Boyle is a writer, speaker, and activist best known for asking one bold question: What happens when we remove... - [Discover Robin Greenfield](https://commune.pk/resources/discover-robin-greenfield-sustainable-living-activist): Robin Greenfield is an environmental activist, adventurer, and speaker known for living his values with honesty and courage. Rather than... - [Ideas from Jacqueline Novogratz](https://commune.pk/ideas-from-jacqueline-novogratz): Kenya & Rwanda Hatch produces 4 billion eggs each year, strengthening child nutrition across multiple African nations. In West Africa,... - [Architecture & Vernacular Building](https://commune.pk/resources/architecture): Building a House with Natural Materials; Using Local Materials to Build a Home - [Creative Commons](https://commune.pk/creative-commons): All the content created at Commune is free for use to everyone, you are free to use, adapt, redistribute this... - [Resources](https://commune.pk/resources): This Page has all resources related to architecs, architecture, books, people that might be useful people conducting research in all... - [Writings](https://commune.pk/writings): Although every part of life is interlinked, the writings at Commune fall into six dimensions. Watch, Read, Listen - [Join the settlers list](https://commune.pk/resources/join-the-settlers-list): This a waiting list for people who want to become part of the commune. Commune needs it first set of... - [Roadmap](https://commune.pk/roadmap): Here I am ideating on the things I plan to do with Commune. There are many ways I look at... - [Stories](https://commune.pk/stories): I was thing to put together interesting stories of people, community and organizations which share similar interests here. I will... - [Residency for Traveling Artists](https://commune.pk/residency-for-traveling-artists): Residency for traveling artists is a place in lahore built to show case a lifestyle. A life where work &... - [Sharing Home](https://commune.pk/sharing-your-home): Making a place a home only a idea until we made one in 2021. But then we have to move... - [Ravi & Lahore](https://commune.pk/photo-journey): My life is my message and through my daily choices, I aim to influence others in society to be the... - [manifesto](https://commune.pk/manifesto): We will live in self-built houses. We will grow our own food. We will eat fresh fruits from nearby trees... --- ## Posts - [Rethinking Agriculture: How PQNK Restores Natural Farming Systems](https://commune.pk/food/usama/rethinking-agriculture-how-pqnk-restores-natural-farming-systems/2026/04): We’ve come to believe that farming depends on chemicals, constant input, and control. But if you look closely at nature,... - [Country Road Take me Home To the place where I belong](https://commune.pk/play/usama/country-road-take-me-home-to-the-place-where-i-belong/2026/01): Almost heaven, West VirginiaBlue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah RiverLife is old there, older than the treesYounger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze - [If It Hurts, Why Keep Wearing It?](https://commune.pk/belonging/anonymous/if-it-hurts-why-keep-wearing-it/2025/12): Ten end-of-day journal entries from someone forced to wear a painfully tight shoe to work—tracking the small humiliations, coping tricks,... - [Melay Nu, Come to the fair—come with me](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/melay-nu-come-to-the-fair-asa-singh-mastana/2025/12): Aj sare chad janjaal kurreMele nu Mele nu chal mere naal kurre ho-ho ho-ho... Today, leave behind all worries and... - [Discover Daniel Suelo: The Man Who Hasn’t Spent a Single Cent in 14 Years](https://commune.pk/sharing/usama/discover-daniel-suelo/2025/12): “I don’t live without money — I live with trust. ” Daniel Suelo Money is so ingrained in our thinking... - [Perhaps Rethink on Equating Wealth with Worth](https://commune.pk/sharing/usama/perhaps-rethink-on-equality-wealth-with-worth/2025/12): (I hold no responsibility for upholding my own views; I often change my views for various reasons. However, if you... - [Mahmood Hayat and the Pursuit of Classical Art](https://commune.pk/play/usama/mahmood-hayat-and-the-pursuit-of-classical-art/2025/11): Description: While driving though Hall Road once, I passed through 14 Hall road, a one of its kind, old classical... - [What Was Lost in Lahore's relentless urban growth](https://commune.pk/home/usama/where-lahore-is-heading-and-what-we-lose-along-the-way/2025/11): This is not a story of Lahore alone. This is the story of most cities in the world today. How... - [The Orchard](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/the-orchard/2025/11): Come to the orchard in spring. There is light and wine and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers. If you do not... - [A life reLearned](https://commune.pk/belonging/anonymous/a-life-relearned/2025/11): Dissociative amnesia, they say, is the term often used when the brain automatically blocks out traumatic experiences and painful memories.... - [Walk on, the end is not yet here.](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/walk-on-the-end-is-not-yet-here/2025/11): یہ داغ داغ اُجالا , یہ شب گزیدہ (رات سے زخمی) سحر (صبح)وہ انتظار تھا جس کا، یہ وہ سحر... - [Rumi’s Parable of the Chickpea](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/rumis-parable-of-the-chickpea/2025/11): On marker day a woman went shopping and came back with a big bag of chickpeas, which she intended to use to make several kinds of salad, dip, and soup. She cleaned the chickpeas, rinsing them well and then soaking them for several hours before boiling them slowly in a big cauldron. - [Which City Is Best?](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/which-city-is-best/2025/11): Two lovers had found a quiet corner in the rose garden early in the morning before the crowds appeared. “My... - [Discover How to Play Blues Music with Harmonia: Simple, Fun Learning from Rizwanullah Khan](https://commune.pk/play/usama/discover-how-to-play-blues-music-with-harmonia/2025/11): Preface These pages bring together the thoughts, lessons, and musical insights of Rizwan Ullah. They were first shared in conversations... - [Growing mushroom over the years](https://commune.pk/food/usama/growing-mushroom-over-the-years/2025/10): A living Brick.Medium: Oyster Mushroom, growing over saw dust, made into a interlocking brick. - [The Moment I Let Go](https://commune.pk/belonging/chrisk/the-moment-i-let-go/2025/10): It was a smasher.I felt like I died and came back. - [#2 koi aashiq kisi mahbuba se by Faiz Ahmed Faiz](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/2-koi-aashiq-kisi-mahbuba-se-by-faiz-ahmed-faiz/2025/10): یاد کی راہگزر جس پہ اسی صورت سےمدّتیں بیت گئی ہیں تمہیں چلتے چلتےyaad kī rāhguzar jis pe isī sūrat semuddateñ biit ga.ī haiñ tumheñ chalte chalte - [#1 Koi aashiq kisi mahbuba se by Faiz Ahmed Faiz](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/koi-aashiq-kisi-mahbuba-se-by-faiz-ahmed-faiz/2025/10): گلشنِ یاد میں گر آج دمِ بادِ صبا (ہلکی ٹھنڈی ہوا)پھر سے چاہے کہ گل افشاں (پھول بکھیرنے والی، خوشبو... - [The Poem about 'nothing'](https://commune.pk/belonging/nabilaf/nothing/2025/10): Here Goes Nothing - [Unsaid](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/unsaid/2025/08): I often used to write for you; but now that I know, I should not let you bother with what’s going on in my mind, what do I do with my thoughts. - [A model to live life](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/my-model-for-living-a-life/2025/07): I am often thinking of a model of life that, in my view, is closer to my nature. In my... - [Terra Viva Chapter #4 Forces of Destruction versus Forces of Creation.](https://commune.pk/home/aun/terra-viva-chapter-2-forces-of-destruction-versus-forces-of-creation/2025/07): In Chapter 3 of Vandana's book titled Terra Viva, Vandana mainly talks about the forces of destruction which harm the Earth, soil and pose a threat to biodiversity versus the forces of creation which restore the earth, soil and recreate and publicise ideas such as seed-sharing or seed sovereignity. - [Tera-Viva-Chapter #2 Roots in the Himalayas: When Earth Became My Teacher-Vandana-Shiva](https://commune.pk/home/aun/chapter-2-roots-in-the-himalayas-when-earth-became-my-teacher/2025/07): What is the main premise behind Chapter 2 of Vandana’s book? In Chapter 2 of Vandana’s book, Vandana dwells deeper... - [Tera-viva-Chapter One: Eco-Feminism and the Hidden Wealth of Rural Communities-Vandana-Shiva](https://commune.pk/home/momina/chapter-1-eco-feminism-and-the-hidden-wealth-of-rural-communities/2025/07): Vandana Shiva is woman who has inspired millions of people throughout the world through various of her books. Among these... - [The Revival of local & natural materials within Pakistan.](https://commune.pk/home/aun/the-revival-of-indigenous-materials-within-pakistan/2025/06): In a country where cement has become shorthand for progress, a quiet movement is turning the conversation back to earth.... - [Uprooted: The Psychological Cost of Displacement in the Shadow of Urbanization](https://commune.pk/home/aun/uprooted-the-psychological-cost-of-displacement-in-the-shadow-of-urbanization/2025/06): Sustainability isn’t only affected solely by the negative impact fossil fuels, urbanization and degradation of land may have on the... - [Rapid Urbanization: The Cost of Development and How It Erases History and Community](https://commune.pk/home/aun/rapid-urbanization-the-cost-of-development-and-how-it-erases-history-and-community/2025/06): What do we lose in this rush to develop? Rapid Urbanization is basically the extreme growth of cities due to... - [The Role of Mud Houses in Sustainable Housing and Community Development](https://commune.pk/home/aun/the-role-of-mud-houses-in-sustainable-housing-and-community-development/2025/05): Mud Houses. They may seem small, unconventional and dirty, however they are the secret and the stepping stone to environmental... - [Growing up as Esa](https://commune.pk/belonging/esa/growing-up-as-esa/2025/05): Chapter - [Progress of Man Series -visual series documenting Lahore’s quiet transformation](https://commune.pk/rewilding/usama/progress-of-man-series/2025/05): “Progress of Man” is a visual series by Usama Ahmed documenting Lahore’s quiet transformation—from fertile farmland to concrete sprawl, and from self-sustaining communities to displaced livelihoods. It invites reflection on what we call progress, and what we leave behind. - [Quitting the Rat Race: One Architect's Journey Towards Living Mindfully](https://commune.pk/belonging/azbah-ansari/rethinking-what-we-build-a-call-for-architects-citizens-and-humans/2025/05): We are all aware of climate change but as citizens and professionals have we ever thought about how our field or industry is contributing to the climate change and what we can do about it? When it comes to climate change and urban sprawl, building construction is a major culprit. It's common sense. There are two major points that I would like to highlight on what we need to rethink. - [Learning to Unbuild: Rethinking Progress in a City That Keeps Growing](https://commune.pk/home/aun/learning-to-unbuild-rethinking-progress-in-a-city-that-keeps-growing/2025/05): Every morning I wake up to the sound of drilling. Some new plaza, some new walls, some new things I’ll... - [A Community made with compressed earth Bricks in Punjab](https://commune.pk/home/usama/a-community-made-with-compressed-earth-bricks-in-punjab/2025/04): Location: Pak-pattan This a fascinating project carried out in 1977. The home owners were included in the process of house... - [Modern house built with Compressed Stabilized Earth Bricks](https://commune.pk/home/usama/modern-house-built-with-compressed-stabilized-earth-bricks/2025/04): There are several ways to build with mud, or earth as you call it. What is more common in Pakistan... - [From dreaming to escape reality, To dreaming, to build reality.](https://commune.pk/home/usama/dreaming-with-purpose-when-sleep-becomes-more-than-just-rest/2025/03): I was wondering if there are people who consciously use dreams in the same way many people use alcohol—to escape into another world. Only recently have I started to realize that my dreaming patterns contain traces of escapism. But perhaps that’s exactly what nature intended for a powerful tool like the mind? - [Are you killing your soul?](https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/are-you-killing-your-soul/2025/03): This is a question I have been asking myself for a long time: Do I do things I don’t want to do? If I had the money, would I still do what I do? - [Incremental house at Belapur by Charles Correa](https://commune.pk/home/usama/incremental-house-at-belapur-by-charles-correa/2025/03): While I am searching for architects in India who have been looking creatively into addressing the challenges of assimilating low-cost... - [A community that makes less then $200 a year.](https://commune.pk/home/usama/a-community-that-makes-less-then-200-a-year/2025/03): This is a video post. Below is a video by VICE Asia about a community in China that has an... - [What If Life Didn’t Revolve Around Money?](https://commune.pk/sharing/usama/what-if-life-didnt-revolve-around-money/2025/03): During COVID, I was exposed to the very terrifying reality of so many people losing their jobs. They had lived in rented apartments all their lives, bought from grocery stores, paid electricity and gas bills, and sent their kids to expensive schools. Missing a paycheck was like a death sentence to them. If you go to such a person and tell them they can live without money, they would not take you seriously—and rightly so. Their model of life revolves around money. My idea of a cashless commune centers around the core principle of showcasing that life without money is not only possible but actually quite amazing. - [A Journey in exploration of Indigenous materials & Architecture styles for housing through two Contemporaries Artists In the sub-continent.](https://commune.pk/home/usama/future-living-a-life-of-self-sustainability-community-and-joy/2024/09): Owning a house of your own is a lifelong dream of many people in our country, right from lower to middle and upper middle class, man from all these economic stratas are longing to build a house of their own, however, more often this dreams remain unfulfilled or by the time it is fulfilled not many years are left in ones live to enjoy living in it. What contributes to this is not only the rising cost of land in urban areas, but the craze to build new fashion houses, using modern & industrial materials such as steel, concrete and cement. An overwhelming majority of houses built in urban areas today completely disregard regional architectural, climate conditions or local materials. A recent estimates by online organization states that “20 million people as being homeless in Pakistan”. Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan in his electoral vision had promised to build 50 million for the poorest of the country, living without a house of their own. It appears that using locally available materials such mud, lime, bamboo etc while using local construction methodologies could prove extremely cost efficient. --- # # Detailed Content ## Pages - Published: 2025-12-24 - Modified: 2025-12-24 - URL: https://commune.pk/privacy-policy --- - Published: 2025-12-19 - Modified: 2025-12-19 - URL: https://commune.pk/resources/mark-boyle --- - Published: 2025-12-19 - Modified: 2025-12-19 - URL: https://commune.pk/resources/discover-robin-greenfield-sustainable-living-activist --- - Published: 2025-12-12 - Modified: 2025-12-12 - URL: https://commune.pk/ideas-from-jacqueline-novogratz --- > Building a House with Natural Materials; Using Local Materials to Build a Home - Published: 2025-11-18 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/resources/architecture --- - Published: 2025-11-01 - Modified: 2025-11-05 - URL: https://commune.pk/creative-commons --- - Published: 2025-11-01 - Modified: 2025-11-18 - URL: https://commune.pk/resources --- - Published: 2025-05-25 - Modified: 2025-12-01 - URL: https://commune.pk/writings --- - Published: 2025-05-04 - Modified: 2025-11-09 - URL: https://commune.pk/resources/join-the-settlers-list --- - Published: 2024-12-02 - Modified: 2025-12-21 - URL: https://commune.pk/roadmap --- - Published: 2024-11-12 - Modified: 2025-11-24 - URL: https://commune.pk/stories --- - Published: 2024-11-04 - Modified: 2025-05-09 - URL: https://commune.pk/residency-for-traveling-artists --- - Published: 2024-11-04 - Modified: 2025-05-25 - URL: https://commune.pk/sharing-your-home --- - Published: 2024-11-03 - Modified: 2024-11-03 - URL: https://commune.pk/photo-journey --- - Published: 2024-10-09 - Modified: 2025-05-04 - URL: https://commune.pk/manifesto --- --- ## Posts - Published: 2026-04-12 - Modified: 2026-04-12 - URL: https://commune.pk/food/usama/rethinking-agriculture-how-pqnk-restores-natural-farming-systems/2026/04 - Categories: Food-&-Agriculture We’ve come to believe that farming depends on chemicals, constant input, and control. But if you look closely at nature, none of that exists. PQNK is an attempt to return to that understanding by focusing on soil, balance, and how things grow on their own. --- > Almost heaven, West VirginiaBlue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah RiverLife is old there, older than the treesYounger than the mountains, growin' like a breeze - Published: 2026-01-22 - Modified: 2026-01-22 - URL: https://commune.pk/play/usama/country-road-take-me-home-to-the-place-where-i-belong/2026/01 - Categories: Play --- - Published: 2025-12-23 - Modified: 2025-12-23 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/anonymous/if-it-hurts-why-keep-wearing-it/2025/12 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-12-21 - Modified: 2025-12-21 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/melay-nu-come-to-the-fair-asa-singh-mastana/2025/12 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-12-20 - Modified: 2025-12-21 - URL: https://commune.pk/sharing/usama/discover-daniel-suelo/2025/12 - Categories: sharing --- - Published: 2025-12-02 - Modified: 2025-12-16 - URL: https://commune.pk/sharing/usama/perhaps-rethink-on-equality-wealth-with-worth/2025/12 - Categories: sharing --- - Published: 2025-11-30 - Modified: 2025-11-30 - URL: https://commune.pk/play/usama/mahmood-hayat-and-the-pursuit-of-classical-art/2025/11 - Categories: Play --- - Published: 2025-11-30 - Modified: 2025-12-01 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/usama/where-lahore-is-heading-and-what-we-lose-along-the-way/2025/11 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-11-30 - Modified: 2025-12-16 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/the-orchard/2025/11 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-11-26 - Modified: 2025-11-26 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/anonymous/a-life-relearned/2025/11 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-11-24 - Modified: 2025-11-24 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/walk-on-the-end-is-not-yet-here/2025/11 - Categories: Belonging --- > On marker day a woman went shopping and came back with a big bag of chickpeas, which she intended to use to make several kinds of salad, dip, and soup. She cleaned the chickpeas, rinsing them well and then soaking them for several hours before boiling them slowly in a big cauldron. - Published: 2025-11-19 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/rumis-parable-of-the-chickpea/2025/11 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-11-19 - Modified: 2025-12-02 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/which-city-is-best/2025/11 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-11-10 - Modified: 2025-12-21 - URL: https://commune.pk/play/usama/discover-how-to-play-blues-music-with-harmonia/2025/11 - Categories: Play --- > A living Brick.Medium: Oyster Mushroom, growing over saw dust, made into a interlocking brick. - Published: 2025-10-30 - Modified: 2025-11-23 - URL: https://commune.pk/food/usama/growing-mushroom-over-the-years/2025/10 - Categories: Food-&-Agriculture --- > It was a smasher.I felt like I died and came back. - Published: 2025-10-30 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/chrisk/the-moment-i-let-go/2025/10 - Categories: Belonging --- > یاد کی راہگزر جس پہ اسی صورت سےمدّتیں بیت گئی ہیں تمہیں چلتے چلتےyaad kī rāhguzar jis pe isī sūrat semuddateñ biit ga.ī haiñ tumheñ chalte chalte - Published: 2025-10-19 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/2-koi-aashiq-kisi-mahbuba-se-by-faiz-ahmed-faiz/2025/10 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-10-11 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/koi-aashiq-kisi-mahbuba-se-by-faiz-ahmed-faiz/2025/10 - Categories: Belonging --- > Here Goes Nothing - Published: 2025-10-08 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/nabilaf/nothing/2025/10 - Categories: Belonging --- > I often used to write for you; but now that I know, I should not let you bother with what’s going on in my mind, what do I do with my thoughts. - Published: 2025-08-19 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/unsaid/2025/08 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-07-19 - Modified: 2025-11-21 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/my-model-for-living-a-life/2025/07 - Categories: Belonging --- > In Chapter 3 of Vandana's book titled Terra Viva, Vandana mainly talks about the forces of destruction which harm the Earth, soil and pose a threat to biodiversity versus the forces of creation which restore the earth, soil and recreate and publicise ideas such as seed-sharing or seed sovereignity. - Published: 2025-07-14 - Modified: 2025-10-22 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/aun/terra-viva-chapter-2-forces-of-destruction-versus-forces-of-creation/2025/07 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-07-05 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/aun/chapter-2-roots-in-the-himalayas-when-earth-became-my-teacher/2025/07 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-07-03 - Modified: 2025-07-03 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/momina/chapter-1-eco-feminism-and-the-hidden-wealth-of-rural-communities/2025/07 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-06-15 - Modified: 2025-12-24 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/aun/the-revival-of-indigenous-materials-within-pakistan/2025/06 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-06-13 - Modified: 2025-06-13 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/aun/uprooted-the-psychological-cost-of-displacement-in-the-shadow-of-urbanization/2025/06 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-06-10 - Modified: 2025-06-10 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/aun/rapid-urbanization-the-cost-of-development-and-how-it-erases-history-and-community/2025/06 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-05-26 - Modified: 2025-05-26 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/aun/the-role-of-mud-houses-in-sustainable-housing-and-community-development/2025/05 - Categories: Home --- > Chapter - Published: 2025-05-25 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/esa/growing-up-as-esa/2025/05 - Categories: Belonging --- > “Progress of Man” is a visual series by Usama Ahmed documenting Lahore’s quiet transformation—from fertile farmland to concrete sprawl, and from self-sustaining communities to displaced livelihoods. It invites reflection on what we call progress, and what we leave behind. - Published: 2025-05-23 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/rewilding/usama/progress-of-man-series/2025/05 - Categories: Rewilding “Progress of Man” is a visual series by Usama Ahmed documenting Lahore’s quiet transformation—from fertile farmland to concrete sprawl, and from self-sustaining communities to displaced livelihoods. It invites reflection on what we call progress, and what we leave behind. --- > We are all aware of climate change but as citizens and professionals have we ever thought about how our field or industry is contributing to the climate change and what we can do about it? When it comes to climate change and urban sprawl, building construction is a major culprit. It's common sense. There are two major points that I would like to highlight on what we need to rethink. - Published: 2025-05-23 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/azbah-ansari/rethinking-what-we-build-a-call-for-architects-citizens-and-humans/2025/05 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-05-14 - Modified: 2025-05-14 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/aun/learning-to-unbuild-rethinking-progress-in-a-city-that-keeps-growing/2025/05 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-04-28 - Modified: 2025-05-25 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/usama/a-community-made-with-compressed-earth-bricks-in-punjab/2025/04 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-04-28 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/usama/modern-house-built-with-compressed-stabilized-earth-bricks/2025/04 - Categories: Home --- > I was wondering if there are people who consciously use dreams in the same way many people use alcohol—to escape into another world. Only recently have I started to realize that my dreaming patterns contain traces of escapism. But perhaps that’s exactly what nature intended for a powerful tool like the mind? - Published: 2025-03-15 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/usama/dreaming-with-purpose-when-sleep-becomes-more-than-just-rest/2025/03 - Categories: Home --- > This is a question I have been asking myself for a long time: Do I do things I don’t want to do? If I had the money, would I still do what I do? - Published: 2025-03-12 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/belonging/usama/are-you-killing-your-soul/2025/03 - Categories: Belonging --- - Published: 2025-03-11 - Modified: 2025-03-11 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/usama/incremental-house-at-belapur-by-charles-correa/2025/03 - Categories: Home --- - Published: 2025-03-10 - Modified: 2025-03-10 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/usama/a-community-that-makes-less-then-200-a-year/2025/03 - Categories: Home --- > During COVID, I was exposed to the very terrifying reality of so many people losing their jobs. They had lived in rented apartments all their lives, bought from grocery stores, paid electricity and gas bills, and sent their kids to expensive schools. Missing a paycheck was like a death sentence to them. If you go to such a person and tell them they can live without money, they would not take you seriously—and rightly so. Their model of life revolves around money. My idea of a cashless commune centers around the core principle of showcasing that life without money is not only possible but actually quite amazing. - Published: 2025-03-06 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/sharing/usama/what-if-life-didnt-revolve-around-money/2025/03 - Categories: sharing --- > Owning a house of your own is a lifelong dream of many people in our country, right from lower to middle and upper middle class, man from all these economic stratas are longing to build a house of their own, however, more often this dreams remain unfulfilled or by the time it is fulfilled not many years are left in ones live to enjoy living in it. What contributes to this is not only the rising cost of land in urban areas, but the craze to build new fashion houses, using modern & industrial materials such as steel, concrete and cement. An overwhelming majority of houses built in urban areas today completely disregard regional architectural, climate conditions or local materials. A recent estimates by online organization states that “20 million people as being homeless in Pakistan”. Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan in his electoral vision had promised to build 50 million for the poorest of the country, living without a house of their own. It appears that using locally available materials such mud, lime, bamboo etc while using local construction methodologies could prove extremely cost efficient. - Published: 2024-09-02 - Modified: 2025-11-20 - URL: https://commune.pk/home/usama/future-living-a-life-of-self-sustainability-community-and-joy/2024/09 - Categories: Home --- ---