Messages of Light

 It is difficult to refute the allegations that this age is dark age. Do not talk about money and power, even religion is used as a tool of violence. In places where the prophets ever born, life is burning. India-Pakistan border is full of weapons, the border of Israel-Palestinian also the same. However, darkness is not the enemy of light. As long as equip oneself with diligent and sincerity, darkness makes light shining even brighter. In this context, this age need much more light.

Leader as the Light

Human history partly is the history of the leader. It is understandable, because the leader is on stage, his/her speeches become news, the behavior is the role model of the crowd, the decisions affect lives of the many. And the time has passed, when leaders were influential because people are full of fear.

In this age, the world admire the cool and soft leaders as Mahatma Gandhi, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela. Princess Diana even very unique. Died with a man who was not her husband. But this stain could not hold the tears drops of billions of people on earth when the Princess of Wales died. Nothing else is hidden behind this except the  deep longing of mankind to the cool and gentle leaders.

For that reason, it becomes an invitation to all leaders in this age, coolness, gentleness, goodness, that is the energy where the light is hiding.

Guru as the Light

One meaning of Guru is the dispeller of darkness. Among so much energy that is stored in a Guru, the most luminous is his/her exemplary. In a simple language, charisma is the light that emits from one's heart who carrying out what he/she speaks.

Another meaning of Guru is a person who has stopped committing crimes both outside and inside. Not only absent from bad speech and actions, even the mind and heart were absent from any stain.

The most beautiful meaning of Guru is someone who has passed a variety of trials. Because of passing the very difficult trials, the Guru then is purified and perfected as well. Purified because he/she has entered the perfect silence. He/she is perfected because of having seen directly that perfect silence gives birth to perfect compassion.

Awareness as the Light

On earth there are more than five billion people. And among the five billion, there is only one person who can take good care of ourselves completely, namely ourselves. However, this self can take good care of us if we are also full of carefulness.

Human body is very friendly indeed. Before a person to be hospitalized, the body gives signal through urine color, nail color, eye color, etc.. The similar thing happens to mind. Before being touched by meditation, mind is gripped by duality. Meditation then make the grip of duality loosening. The world of spirit is also the same. Borrowing the opinion of psychologist Sigmund Freud, when the world of spirit is not explored, the spirit will come in the form of neurosis (mental illness). Suffering as an example, it is only an inner call that one lives too far from home.

The message is simple, one who treats his/her self well would be treated well. That's why, a few moments before Lord Buddha pass away, he whispered: "Be a light upon yourselves". In meditation, this light is called awareness. It means, the best way to take good care of ourselves is awareness.