The Inner Angel

A young girl whose face was tired and uneasy asked a touching question like this: "my parents was divorced, my house makes me nervous, my school makes me angry, where should I find safe and comfortable shelter for my soul?". 

It is unimaginable how painful the inner soul is, at the teenagers age this young girl must experience such troubling life. And in the midst of burning life like this, it is natural that she tried to look for a comfortable shelter for her soul.

Sadly, in this time and age, there are very few safe and comfortable soul shelter. Do not talk about people who gathered for the purpose of business, even when the holy people gathered for the purpose of sanctitying the soul, the environment is full of disagreement.

Learning from this, the only safe option is to find the beautiful angel within. That is the reason why the deep spiritual journey is often referred as a deep inner journey. It is like finding the inner sanctuary.

Every tradition has their unique way, but on the path of meditation the inner journey is done by maintaining the proper distance to the body, mind and emotion. When someone is successful in maintaining the last distance, by then there is possibility of deep concentration.

Rose of Peace

Spiritual friends who spent a lot of time in solitude, as well as accessing the energy of silence know, there are a lot of contradictions inside ourselves. Right against wrong. Religion against science. Logic against feeling. And there are many other contradictions.

The harder one resist these contradictions, especially when seekers called those contradictions as bad under the name of religion and knowledge, there are more burning fire inside. Some of psychological and spiritual illness are rooted here in the burning contradictions within.

When we dig deeper, these contradictions arise because the materials that make the body, the the mind, the emotion are in contradictions. In the human body there are elements of water and fire. The mind can only work if there is duality such as bad-good, wrong-right, false-true. In the same way, emotions also grow riding the waves like sad-glad, sorrow-joy, ugly-beauty.

That's the reason why every human being who live in the level of body, mind, emotion, their life are full of waves. Their waves of life rise when they are glad, their waves of life fall when they are sad. Whenever they are joyful, they celebrate. In the moment when life is full of sorrow, they thought they are punished.

Beautiful Heart

A number of friends who are entrepreneurs complain that there are many business opportunities actually, but it is very difficult to find people who can be trusted to be able to lead the company. As a result, many business opportunities simply pass solely because of the scarcity of well-trusted people.

This story implicitly bring a simple message, in this age to find clever people is easy. There are abundant supply of clever people everywhere. But when it comes to find person with beautiful heart, there are saddening scarcity everywhere. Especially those who are beautiful in service, beautiful in attitude, beautiful in deeds.

Hearing a story like this, a teenager asks: "what is beautiful heart?". Look deeply inside when you know that your old friends who like to cheat in school later is appointed as professor, if you can smile without envy, that is a seed of beautiful heart.

Meeting The Light

After reading the article "Meeting The True Guru" a young man asked a very touching question like this: "If The True Guru only illuminate souls with abundance accumulation of good karma, then who will illuminate the dark souls who are full of shortcomings?".

To be honest, in each cycle of time there is light. Unfortunately, many people obscure themselves by many clouds. Consequently, they keep thinking that no one illuminate their soul. Similar to the light in nature. During the day there is the sun. During the night there are stars and moon.

In Tantra especially, there are three types of clouds which obscure souls to meet the light. There are external clouds such as body, mind and emotions. There are inner clouds which is known as nadi (energy channels), prana (energy), bindu (the essence). And the last one is the inner most secret clouds which is dualistic fixation.

Meeting The True Guru

It is impossible to see the sun at night. It is also impossible to see the stars in the daytime. In the same way, without the abundant accumulation of merits (good karma), it is impossible to meet the true Guru. For that reason, there is no other choice for the true seekers except to accumulate as many good karma as possible.

That is why religions strongly emphasize the importance of kindness and goodness. Mainly because this abundant accumulation of merits will point out the direction where the true Guru live. There are many spiritual signs that indicating where the true Guru is.

Those who experience weak signs are interested in the true Guru through reading, stories that are shared by many people, or meaningful coincidences. Spiritual seekers who experience medium signs encounter the true Guru because of the strong inner determination, or the strong inner feeling that this is the right time to meet the true Guru.

Portable Heaven

In our modern life, there are a lot of people who keeps offering heaven. The material world complete with their advertising and promotion keep showing smiles everyday. Some of them smiles while offering cars and some others smiles while offering insurance services and savings for the future of children.

The characteristic of material world is simple, they keep offering sedative from outside. A Car salesman will always promise that you can be happy with the new car. If the purchased car can not make you happy, they will offer another new car with a more expensive price. And the end result can be easily predicted, happiness inquirers like this are not only endless, but also make many souls get exhausted. In the west where the material life is praised, the statistic of social diseases keep increasing from year to year.

Having realized the dry characteristic of material life, a lot of seekers begin to stop searching heaven outside, then learn to find paradise that is available abundantly within. Meditation is one of the way to find the abundant paradise inside.

Religion of Love

Following the death of hundreds of people in Paris due to the terrorist attack on Friday November 13, 2015, mother Earth was surrounded by the aura of deep sadness. Many people said that tears suddenly drop after  the event. Countless peace lovers expressed their deep condolences. Some of spiritual seekers deeply pray for the happiness of suffering souls in Paris.

And in the midst of this deep sorrow, there is a spiritual friend from London who sent a beautiful e-mail which delivering this message: "religion never kill, ignorance that kill". No religion which was born to kill. The true spirit that often kill is ignorance.

Ignorance keeps believing that material wealth can make them happy forever. Ignorance often assume that political power can provide everything. Ignorance mistakenly conclude that violence can be destroyed by violence.