The Most Beautiful Offering

In all religions there are people who yearn to worship and make offerings. It is a kind of soul which is longing to return home. This is the objective of many spiritual practices. Sadly, not too many people who deeply miss their soul home, find their peace. Many souls grow from uncertainty to anxiety.

Being driven by uncertainty and anxiety like this, Arjune asked Shri Krishna for an honest insight, viewing Shri Krishna as the embodiment of God. When the dialogue entered the territory of offering, with a beautiful smile, Shri Krishna replied: "if you do it sincerely and honestly, water and flowers alone are more than enough".

The Petals of Soul

The human soul appears to have an endless mystery. The findings of Sigmund Freud about the unconsciousness, or the ideas of Carl G. Jung about the shadow, apparently is not the ultimate end of human efforts to uncover the mysteries of the human soul. The findings of seekers in this field will continue to flow without knowing when and where it will stop.

Within the framework of Freud's unconsciousness, or Jung's shadow, all negative emotions which are suppressed for various reasons are thrown into the warehouse of subconsciousness. One day when the warehouse is full, then it will come to the surface in the form of stress, depression, illness and some people even go crazy.

Bringers of The Dawn

"Life is not a puzzle to be solved, but a series of smiles to be shared" 

There's darkness that touches the heart everywhere. Not only in developing countries do people grow in a fearful way, in the well-developed countries a growing number of people also live in a fearful way. The author of the book 'History of God' by Karen Armstrong, called it a great irony of our time. In many rich countries a growing number of human beings can not eat, not because of poverty, but because of life's uncertainty. 

And darkness is not here to destroy the light. In contrast, darkness is here  to invite as many souls as possible to be the bringers of the dawn. Not many people are blessed to be as bright as Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi. No matter how limited our capacity is, we can be a bringer of the dawn in our surrounding environment. 

Whenever we meet thousands of parents of children with special needs, there is always an aura of darkness which deeply miss bright light. Many parents of the children with special needs ask the same questions, what is my fault, what is my sin, if I die who will take good care of my child, why should my child have special needs? 

The True Light

"It's enough to meet the light, it's time to emit the light"

A spiritual friend from Jakarta who firstly join our meditation session in the North of Bali in August 2016 came with a feeling of deep gratitude. He said honestly that when we meditate together in the morning, he saw a very beautiful bright light moving from the north, then fall slowly not far from the garden where we meditate.

The experience of seeing the light when meditating has been experienced by many people since long ago. The guiding message then, never let the appearance of light act as a reason to enhance the ego and selfishness. Do not ever think that you are better and higher than everyone else after seeing the light.

The Inner Angel

"One who has light within meets light everywhere"

A deep longing for a well-trusted public figure, that's the profound longing of the younger generation of our time. If the scarcity of well-trusted public figures happen in developing countries, it is understandable. However, if the same thing happen in the well-developed countries , this is a deep sadness of our time.

Soul Wings

"While joy makes the soul enjoy the music, sorrow makes the soul deeply understand the lyrics"

Almost everyone runs away from sadness. Restaurants, bars, entertainment venues are some places where people like to escape to. And no matter how hard someone tries to escape from sadness, sadness will come again and again. Let alone when there is no prophet on earth, even when the prophet was present here on earth, grief is here to be the guest of life.

Peace, Peace, Peace

"In the ancient time, one is called a hero because of the courage to destroy others. In recent time, one is called a hero because of the courage to love others"

"Worshiping the unseen, but destroying the seen", that's the spiritual practice of many suffering souls who commit a lot of violence. And we are not just talking about common human beings, even in the holy places violence happens. It is deeply sad of course, but sadness is not a seed of violence. Sadness is an invitation to sprinkle the holy water of forgiveness and compassion to every fire of violence.