Ritual of Love

Some young spiritual seekers asked a significant question: "does religious ritual heal the soul?". It depends on how deep people disclose the meaning behind rituals. If the understanding is deep, the daily practice is also deep, rituals help souls on the journey of healing.

In Japan there is a beautiful ritual called the art of tea. The first step in the art of tea is to empty the cup. It simply means, empty the cup of mind from the past and the future first, then one can pour the tea of the present. 

Flower of Compassion

Some of younger generation have a unique way to grow. Whenever they argue, they keep denying. It seems that they find happiness in denying the others. The daily menu of these people are arguing. Whether the other's arguments are valid or not, they simply argue. A path of growth that need to be respected.

Students on the path of meditation are different. From day to day meditation keeps guiding not to give food to the thought. Arguing, denying, blaming, the feeling of being right at all time, are some of the foods of thought. Any one who often gives food to the thought like being praised, being recognized, then their mind will be bigger and bigger from day to day.

Sunrise of Peace

One day Nasrudin discovered a human skull in the forest, when he asked what brought the skull to the woods, the skull answered: "talking brought me here". Hearing a miracle like this, Nasrudin made a report to the king about the talking skull.

The King along with his troops then asked the skull. Sadly, the skull was completely silent. As a consequence of it, Nasrudin was executed by the king. As soon as the King left the forest, the skull asked Nasrudin's head, what brought you here? Firmly Nasrudin's head replied: "talking brought me here".

The Smile of Light

"I'm restless Guru, please save my life", that's the message of one meditation student. The same thing also happens to many restless souls in this age. If you cannot be a savior to yourself, any teacher will not help much.

Learning from deep stories of many meditation students, the root of fear and anxiety is life which is jumping from one extreme to the other extreme. Some people excessively satisfying their desire in indulgence, after finding nothing there, some even experience dangerous life such as drugs, then they jump into the other extreme in the form of ascetic life such as fasting excessively.

Moon of Compassion

"It is dark Guru, please guide me to get out of darkness", that is the whisper of a woman in a deep prayer. This is an example how most people hate and fear of darkness. Not just hating darkness, some even running away from darkness. And the more souls run away from darkness, the more darkness visit one's life.

Guru Devotion

One of the beautiful books of Hazrat Inayat Kanh is "Inner Life". This last book is very similar to the journey of Japanese samurai in finding perfection. In this approach, every movement of life is seen as a mirror of what is happening inside.

Snow

Whenever encountering restless souls in meditation sessions, there is always frozen mind like snow. Due to frozen mind then they collided with a lot of things in life. Do not talk about money and power, even the idea of ​​enlightenment can make people like these collide with others.

Wings of Peace

In one of question answer session in prison, a prisoner asked seriously: "is it true that meditation can make us fly?". When it was cultivated deeper, it turns out he wanted to fly away from the prison.

This is one sign of soul who is far from health. Do not talk about money and power, even spirituality wanted to be used as a vehicle of crime. As a result, soul is restless and full of anxiety.

Wilhelm Reich in his book "Listen Little Man" wrote, soul can reach a state of health when a person lives in a balance and loving way. And when soul live in doubt and fear, a person lose the energy to be healed.