Ocean of Miracles

The most interesting thing about the "Smileful Meditation" session that just ended on 3rd September 2017, is a number of meditation participants brought their children with special needs. As an example, a western woman who has an autistic daughter was beautifully served by the spiritual family of Compassion for several days.

It was a wonderful spiritual experience actually. Especially because we do not only lessen the burden of others for a few days, but we also meet the honest mirror that we keep sharing a smile in the midst of trials, temptations and exhaustion. A series of mirrors that made us very happy.

The other thing that makes us happy, a meditator with a thin body and a face which is poor of light, who had said goodbye a few years ago for having been infected with the Aids/HIV virus, and he was so convinced that he would die, in this meditation session this person came with a much healthier face. The person who is full of smiles even claimed to have worked several months in Bali.

When asked what medication he took over the last few years, with a beautiful smile on his face he replied: "Accept, flow, smile". When asked repeatedly, fearing he was joking or not serious, again he replied that he did not take expensive and rare drugs. He only practiced "accept, flow, smile".

Above all, even though the Compassion family has just moved from a beach location to a remote mountain, many old spiritual friends still came. Not only old spiritual friends who live in Bali, even those who live outside of Bali also came and spent time to serve others.

Having realized that the spiritual family of Compassion had almost nothing. No big buildings or meditation center, we even do not have any petty cash. With this background in mind, some of our close friends asked: "Where does the ocean of miracles come from?".

A handful of friends who have participated for years agreed, the greatest energy that we shared to all spiritual friends who want to learn meditation is the energy of total and unconditional acceptance. We totally accept not only a little child with autism, a few years ago a middle-aged woman who had been treated in psychiatric hospital for years, kept singing, dancing, even breaking the bottle while we were meditating together. We keep sharing the energy of total acceptance.

As reported by her family, this former female mental hospital patient is now able to care for her little niece every day. From preparing breakfast, driving to school to pick her up again during the day. More than that, this woman told everyone how she was treated with full acceptance in the spiritual family of Compassion.

Beside the energy of total acceptance, the energy of sincerity is also very helpful in caring for the people who came. As a material of reflection, in every house there is a garbage can. The same thing happens in society. There must be someone who takes good care of the people who are unwelcome by society. If no one does that, like untreated waste, over a matter of time they will grow into a threatening disease which will spread everywhere.

At the top of all, one of the miracles that can be found here on earth is a peaceful mind. Let alone hundreds of people, when there is someone whose peace of mind is amazing (by which read: calm, balanced, see everything is perfect as it is), then waves of miracles will come from many directions. Hence it is understandable, when a very old sacred book left a message that peace is the face of God that brings countless miracles.

Author: Guruji Gede Prama.

Photo Courtesy: Universal Vista.

Proofread By: Kirsty Spence.