The Zen of Natural Education curriculum for teachers, parents and all independent learners.

Natural Education  Zen Home School is an online Natural Education Information and Resource Center. Natural Education is reality based education. Like the Taoist view of life, Natural Education is the continuous process of looking to nature to discover reality. And, like the Zen way of seeing life the way it really is, Natural Education tells the truth. The whole Natural Education movement that Zen Home School is propelling is based on the fundamental awareness that nature's laws are the truth of reality. We live and survive on nature's terms, not on the delusions of human beings. How we sustain life on our small planet completely relies on harmony with nature. Zen Home School is dedicated to offering exceptional educational tools and teachings that help encourage a smarter and greener way to live in harmony with nature and each other. For success, on our small planet, we need to be awake. We need to stop the violence in our minds that makes us destroy life. We need peace education to remind us how beautiful the natural world is and how beautiful life can be when we are not fearful or angry. Peace Education and Natural Education teach awareness with appreciation. A true spiritual life is based on cultivating the capacity to understand the interconnectedness of all things, the Interbeing, as Thich Nhat Hanh puts it. ZHS 2008 offerings: (*new)
Online Curriculum: (Available Anytime)  Green Education*  Peace Education  Democracy Education*  Music Education  Physical Education  Continuing Education  Financial Education*  Media Literacy  Online Curriculum  Natural Education 
ZHS Publications: (Digital)  Workbooks*  Tutorials  Manuals 
Education Supplies: (Available Anytime)  Music Education Instruments  Awareness Bookstore  Educational Resources  Educational Software and Technology  Music Literacy-CDs  Reading Literacy-Books  Exceptional Movies 

Parent Teacher Education Fall 2008
Apple Alley Early Education Fall 2008

Green Education  Fall in love with nature again and become an advocate of Green Education. Educate and inspire your family, classroom and community. Learn the truth about our ecological situation around the world and ways to help make changes in a positive direction. Educate, educate, educate.

Peace Education  Find ZHS Family Peace Workbook (available any time,) free Peace Teachings from wisdom holders, and the true marks of a Peace Maker. See our Continuing Education Peacemakers for further peace study. "Where there is peace there is culture and where there is culture there is peace." (Nicholas Roerich)

Democracy Education The failure of civic education in America today is enabling an elite, minute percentage of our population to manipulate politics, trade, wealth, and laws to their advantage. This section of our ZHS Online Curriculum is a free crash-course on the principles of true American Democracy. Review why the whole world has loved the rule of law in America (until now,) and also remember why our Constitutional Democracy has been a bright light for human freedom in the world for well over 200 years. Teach real Democracy Education. As Ben Franklin put it, we have "a Republic, if you can keep it." Can we keep it?

Music Maitri Education and Instruments  Music Maitri is the process of making friends with oneself through music. Maitri (Tibetan) pronounced "my-tree," means compassion for oneself. Our Music Education plan, online music curriculum, is how to teach children music at home. Our free online 16-year overview of teaching music at home is easy to follow, with or without musical experience. Print it out for easy reference and apply it to help you teach, as our gift. Our Music Maitri outline is a good example of the ZHS view of the true value in gradual and balanced development. Anyone who wants to cultivate a musical education at home, is encouraged to do so with this homeschool curriculum of Music Education that offers developmental learning tips, developmental instrument suggestions and music education teaching tools. The gift of music is a gift for a lifetime.

Physical Education ~ Taoist Wisdom Find the world's cutting edge east-west teachings of the universal energy, Chi (Qi.) While the western focus is mainly on muscles, all the ancient Qi practices (like Qigong, Tai Chi, Kung Fu and others,) are based on understanding the Qi energy patterns of the body. This energy is now called Bio-electricity by science. Whether a parent, teacher, healer, Martial Artist, dancer, or physician, the scientific information and clear practices offered here could help you develop and deepen your understanding much further. Children will only benefit from your expanding understanding of how the energy of life really works. This information is transformative.

Financial Education  Early financial education begins at home. Suggestions outlined on dealing with money though-out childhood, teen years, early adult. Featured educational resources.

Continuing Education  Deepen your personal spiritual studies with time-saving and expansive considerations: Meditation I & II, Universal Qi Energy I & II, The Bodhisattva Path of Service, Peacemakers, Buddha: The Man, Death and Dying. These Tutorials are available anytime, and require online accessibility and an email account.

Humanitarian and Environmental Links  Help people, pets and wildlife survive the world's disasters:
Hurricanes   Sudan   AIDS   Hunger   Floods   Starvation   War

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Reading Literacy Reading well is essential for young people to gradually gain their longed-for independence one day.

Media Literacy Use this page for easy navigating to the world's best journalism and publications online. Literacy is knowing how to read, but it also means that we do read. Democracy is founded on an informed public. Without this, we have no Democracy.

ZHS Awareness Bookstore/Educational Resources  Teaching Supplies, Educational Resources, Homeschool Curriculum, Parent/Teacher Training and Child Development, for study and enrichment. Features: Reading Literacy, Homeschool Curriculum, Educational Software, Music Education & Instruments, and selected CDs/Movies to spice up and enrich your family education or homeschool curriculum. This little online Bookstore offers a big education by emphasizing the obscured, but brilliant sanity already in our culture. Organic Snack Bar New

America and Open Society  Read our ZHS editorial page: The Zen of Hope.  Read the words of one of the world's wisest women: Africa's 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Wangari Maathai writes about a green solution in Trees for Democracy.

Marketplace  Features small and micro-businesses online. Clothes, Art, Food, Yurts, Gourmet... Buy directly. Help rebuild America's middle-class of productive people. Boycott Chinese imports. Buy locally. Buy smart "for a future to be possible," Thich Nhat Hanh.

Dedication In memory of Ven. Gesshin Prabhasa Dharma, Roshi; acknowledgement of Nicholas Roerich; and ZHS Logo, ancient roots ~ new symbolism.

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