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Title: Brahma Kumaris Official Website - Home
Description: A Spiritual organization committed to self transformation through meditation and positive thinking.
Light Server
I am starting to believe less in statistics, the truth is that they will mean what u want them to mean.
BKWSU HAVE A SPIRITUAL-PHILOSOPHY TALK
Dimapur, Oct. 11. It was a dialogue of life and action when the students of philosophy of Salesian College, Dimapur and Teacher Trainees of Bosco College of Teacher Education, Dimapur, interacted with the Brahma Kumaris of Brahma Kumari Raj Yoga Meditation Centre, Dimapur on 11 October, at Salesian college, Dimapur.
The centre established in 1983, has three Brahmakumaris on the staff and more than 200 students, visiting the centre for meditation and around one thousand other members who are associated with the centre.
In the more than two hour sharing and interaction, Brahma Kumari Rupa, expounded their basic philosophy. She stressed on meditation and controlling of the mind. The mind has to be cured of negativities to achieve the total realization of true identity of the person, she said. Our real identity is the SOUL - source of universal light. It is the task of everyone to realize this eternal identity. Self realization should lead one to God realization. This is done through meditation, which is basically a communication of soul to the Supreme SOUL. Our soul has to be constantly refreshed, renewed, and reenergized through meditation,that is communication with the Supreme Soul.
She further emphasized on two types of powers. One is science power and the other is Silence power. Silence helps one to move from corporeal to the incorporeal. This is done through development of the third eye, the intellect.
After the short sharing, floor was open for more discussion and sharing. The students gave vent to their curiosities and queries asking profound and relevant questions basing themselves on their studies of Indian philosophy.
It may be noted that Brahma Kumari University, is an international organization, with its headquarter at Mount Ambu, in Rajasthan. It has over 130 centres around the world and around 8500 branches. It has also a consultative status in the UNO.
LIGHT SEVER
It is interesting that silence is so well connected to the third eye. But what is the power of silence?
On Obedience - Possibly the most controversial subject in the BKWSU, And perhaps the main reason people adopt a more casual attitude with the BKWSU
Light Server
One either listens or does not - one does not creep, or crawl. One withdraws to the inner voice to the natural retreat, and here one finds the rules for oneself. There is great joy in following these rules using the inner
disclipine - there is no regret, for everything is explained - one can only bow, agree with obedience when one witnesses the power of God's love.
This is my original take on this, but obedience is not bowing to snobbery. For one realises one's value is beyond labels. One is obedient to oneself, possibly because of one's spiritual commitment, one trust's one's nature - if one trust's one's heart, the storms of life submit eventually! But any values that are perception based could be used against oneself.
BKWSUWhen their is disobedience within oneself, their is great danger. There is danger of an ocean breaking through a wall, drowning within one go the careful creation of thought; whole homes and
families of ideas gone. There is the danger of
impulse and dreams. There is so much danger.
World Definition
Obedience is regarded as a
virtue in many traditional cultures; historically, children have been
expected to be obedient to their elders, slaves to their owners, serfs to their lords in
feudal society, lords to their king, and everyone to God. Even long after
slavery ended in the United States, the
Black codes required black people to obey and submit to whites, on pain of lynching.
I was just thinking this morning:
if one takes life seriously, can one have humour in their lives? Or if one takes humour too seriously one censors oneself; but one can also be too light.
The spiritual life needs a lightness, but if one is serious about life-style, you could become close minded. It is with humour that one opens up, with the smile the face opens up more. When we are serious our faces close up, perhaps then we cannot absorb the light of God.
So what is seriousness? Requiring thought, concentration, or application: serious reading; a serious task.
It seems to be like a see-saw, we swing to one-side, and then we swing to another side.
With humour we lighten up, but though we close up in seriousness, it is necessary to digest.
Being too serious, one's side of the see-saw moves below the ground, to stay too serious, one seems to bury oneself, or being too light one takes off into the air!
by light server (ex-BK)
Reference(copy and paste)
http://raja.madcityyoga.com/index.php/45/humor-theres-nothing-as-nourishing-as-happiness/The Supreme wishes for us to be entertained, light and happy. Keep your sense of humor about you through everything and you will cut the weight of your troubles and sorrows by at least half. Don t take yourself so seriously. There are two ways to look at things; glum and gloomy or happy and hopeful. The choice truly is up to me.
Let me tell you a little joke. Why were 5 and 6 afraid of 7? The answer Because 7- 8, 9! You got it? 7 8 9? This is of course a child s joke but the fear of 7 is also a child s game. We are afraid of things that we don t understand fully. Like the disease or the finances or the relationship or death. And because there is fear there is no happiness. And when happiness is lost, there is no humor. I simply need to adjust my way of thinking, and the way in which I view the world at large and my immediate world will change.
If I keep thinking the same thoughts which got me into this mess in the first place, I will continue to spin around in the same spot.
BK PEACE TREE UP - THIS IS A NEW IDEA? PEACE
From
THE HILL newspaper:
Peace tree grows amid hostile environmentWhen we learned that a “Peace Tree” now adorns the Capitol grounds, we couldn’t help but be suspicious that a politically correct, seasonally incorrect holiday celebration was afoot.
We are relieved to report that’s not the case.
The Brahma Kumaris Peace Tree, located near the intersection of 1st Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, has temporarily been transformed into the “Tree of Blessings” with more than 300 red laminated cards inscribed with messages from around the world.
People sent blessings, knowing that they would be seen on Capitol Hill, said Jenna Miraj, director of Brahma Kumaris in Washington, D.C. The group received 300 messages from six continents in three days.
“May you always remain in peace, for peace is the mother of happiness,” reads a blessing from someone in the Czech Republic.
“Members are invited to come by and share, take, and experience being blessed,” the group said in a statement.
The blessings will remain on the tree for at least another week. Next week, by the way, is expected to be anything but peaceful as Congress fights through energy, immigration and defense authorizing bills.
Mike Soraghan and Kelly McCormack contributed to this page.
also:
http://www.peaceoneday.org/page/home
Being a great fan of music, I am eager to hear this concert, remember Live Aid!
Light Server
I would have to go against the stream with my take on PEACE, and say that PEACE is a result of serving the LIGHT and not the method. At least this is a new idea on PEACE,
SO I WISH YOU LIGHT MORE THAN PEACE, FOR LIGHT DISSOLVES THE FISTS, ONLY THEN CAN HANDS JOIN!
A CASUAL BK CONSIDERS THE VEGAN WAY IN MAKATI CITY WHICH IS IN THE PHILIPPINESS
I am almost there — semi– vegetarian, that is, because I still eat fish, seafoods and chicken. But no more red meat, no pork, no canned or processed foods, atbp. But I would even go vegan if only I could dine so deliciously as I did at the birthday lunch of my longtime colleague Emmie Velarde at the Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center at Baghtikan St., San Antonio Village in Makati City.
The Brahma Kumaris Center provides various good things for the psyche, mind and body such as raja yoga (every Monday), healing lectures on "forgiveness and forgetting"… managing stress… making peace with the past…minding health, managing wealth… the art of dealing with others, atbp.
Emmie who has been a vegetarian for as long as I’ve known her always invites me to her birthday lunches held always at the Brahma Kumaris center.
This year she enticed me with the promise of my favorite "cua pao", the Singaporean delicacy but entirely vegetarian. The cua pao is stuffed with minced kangkong stalks, shitake mushrooms, wansoy although the secret is in the mushroom sauce… delicious!
This time, there were three birthday celebrants — Emmie Velarde, Toni Gregory and Sister Rebecca Ortega.
Most of the guests came from showbiz including my dear friend Boots Anson Roa, Ramon "RJ" Jacinto and his lovely Frannie, TV persona Jessica Soho looking trim and chic.
Timmie Cruz, a recent disciple, sang and entertained. We saw also Brahma Kumaris guru Tessie Macasaet sporting a new cropped hairdo, writer/dancer Marge Enriquez, also a disciple, and other colleagues in media who relished the purely vegetarian feast like the all–vegie fresh lumpia, pancit for long life, pomelo salad,the crisp deep–fried tofu skin which was a huge hit because it tastes like chitcharon! Kudos to Tessie and to Sister Cecilia Montoya who did the cooking.
Did you know that the Brahma Kumaris has a Center for Spiritual Learning in Tagaytay City which holds retreats and camps to provide "solace for the soul?" You can go there simply as an escape from the maddening stresses of urban life. You can sleep over, nourish your body with vegetarian meals while feeding your soul in "silence, stillness and serenity"
Call them at 890-7960 or 521-2015 or e-mail tagaytay@bkwsu.org. LINK
Light Server.- I do try to use
Soya milk, instead of Cow milk. The question is of balance, though being
vegetarian is more
pratical than being a vegan (but I guess it depends on one's situation) but
practicality can only be measured by principles. Though the more local the food is the higher chi it will have...
Inner Vision: Don't Get Mad, Get Wise
In a world where our education seeks to prepare us for the production/consumption society, we learn how to make choices at the supermarket and in the holiday brochures. Unfortunately, we receive no education regarding how to choose and change our beliefs and our feelings. No one shows us how our thoughts and feelings are rooted in our beliefs and that there are more enlightened choices that can transform our lives, and therefore our destinies. Awareness leads to seeing, which leads to understanding, which leads to expansion of choice. And that leads to the self-created opportunity to change.
Only when you cultivate self-awareness through self-reflection are you able to see exactly where and why you create your anger. It always begins with a disturbance within your consciousness and it is always because the world around you is not dancing to your tune. Whenever you become angry, it is because you have an image in your mind of how things should be, how people should behave, how events should unfold, and the external reality is not matching the image in your mind. Anger comes when you are not inwardly flexible enough to accept that outward reality is always going to be different from your preconceptions, expectations, and desires.
Any time you sense irritation, frustration, or anger coming, be aware. You will notice you are waging war on one of three fronts: with the past, with another person, or with yourself.
You are at war with the past because your anger is always toward something that has already happened, and your emotional reaction means you are trying to change it, which is impossible. To the rest of the world it looks as if you believe you can. That’s because you hold this belief subconsciously. Somewhere and sometime in the past, you picked up and assimilated the belief that the world, including all other people, should do exactly what you want it to, or what you think it should do.
You are at war with another person because that person has done something that you judge to be wrong, and your anger is an attempt to change them or inflict revenge. Perhaps you have not yet realized that it is impossible to control others and make them change. The habit of anger is so deep that this truth, which will eventually become self-evident, has not yet killed the root of your illusion that anger is good.
You are at war with yourself because you are failing to make the world dance to your tune, or you believe you have let yourself down. The old thought/feeling pattern goes something like this: To fail is to lose; to lose is to be sad; to be sad is the precursor to being angry as you look for an external cause of your sadness. But deep inside you know it is you, yourself, that has made you sad.
Take a moment to reflect on the last time you became angry at someone. It can be hard to see that your anger is never created by anyone other than your self. Though it seems the other person’s actions are responsible for your emotional state, in truth it is simply your response to the person or the event. Every response you create can be a conscious choice. You simply forget that you have a choice and that you do not have to react angrily. This choice is easily obscured, as the anger seems to arise within you naturally and you probably even believe it is instinctive, and therefore something that is healthy and that you need do nothing about. Which is why many people argue for their anger and become easily irritated in any conversation with someone who disagrees!
Anger is learned and it can therefore be unlearned. That means don’t repress, don’t suppress, and don’t express. What’s left? Transform. The transformation of anger requires insight into the root cause of your emotional pain. When you see the cause it gives you a choice A) to stop creating it; or B) continue creating it. Unfortunately, although many see why they cause their own anger and acknowledge responsibility for itscreation, they continue to do so. They find many ways of justifying their anger. They have an “anger addiction.”
For some time, therapists have believed that anger is okay—in fact, many therapists still believe that it’s good to get angry once in a while. Around 15 years ago, in Japan, it was discovered that around 10,000 executives were dying every year from overwork (an epidemic termed karoshi, literally meaning “death from overwork”). The cause was traced to excessive and suppressed anger. So Japanese firms created “anger rooms” in the basements of their office blocks, padded the walls, and put a baseball bat in the room. They told executives that if they felt anger coming on they should go to the room and just hit the walls with the bat as hard and as much as they wanted, in order to get the anger out of their systems. Two years later, they measured the results. The amount of anger had increased. Why? After much head scratching, they eventually realized that people who were going to the rooms regularly were practicing getting angry and simply reinforcing the habit. The message: Don’t suppress, don’t repress, and don’t express—transform.
In numerous studies, anger has been found to have a wholly detrimental effect on our physical well-being. In one such study, reported at a recent conference on forgiveness and peace in the US, it was demonstrated that letting go of the anger buried in a grudge relieved and reduced chronic back pain. Another study discovered that women fighting their own substance-abuse problems were able to reduce the length of relapses by practicing forgiveness. A Stanford University forgiveness project revealed how it is impossible to be happy and healthy while carrying bitterness and anger at how unjustly we feel we have been treated.
In order to free yourself from the anger habit, you will need to take these significant steps: understand why anger is extremely unhealthy; accept responsibility for your anger, in whatever form it takes, at all times and in all situations; and be prepared to expose, challenge, and change the beliefs and perceptions you hold, which are creating your emotional pain.
Be aware the next time you become angry. Interrupt the pattern of your anger by asking yourself two simple questions: What am I trying to do? (Answer: You are trying to control what you cannot control—the past and other people); and Who is suffering first and most? (Answer: Yourself!). And if your anger is directed at yourself for your own seeming failures, then repeat this short phrase: There is no such thing as a failure, only a different outcome from the one that I expected. And if you insist on staying angry, then ask yourself this question: How long is my anger going to last? You’ll be surprised how fast it disappears.
Mike George is an international management development consultant and coach based in London, a teacher at Albany’s Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center, the editor of Heart and Soul magazine, and the author of several books, including Don’t Get Mad, Get Wise, from which the above was excerpted with permission. George will host a free talk and book launching at the Albany Public Library on May 25 from 12 to 1:30pm. The event is being sponsored by Brahma Kumaris Meditation Center. (518) 438-4180; www.bkwsu.org. Visit Mike George’s website at www.relax7.com.
Light Server
It is difficult to serve the light when surrounded by darkness, but to grip too hard to the lightness one only creates the zealousness of darkness; for to hold a flower tightly one crushes the flower.
serve the light
