Beautiful Garden of Soul

"The quality of your relationship with those who are close to you, that is your deepest spiritual practice", a spiritual friend shared one day. Any friends with deep meditation practice know, the quality of our relationship with close people, especially those who cannot be chosen like parents and children, is a very honest reflection of the beauty of the heart inside.

Similar to the reflection that one meets in the clear and clean mirror, the beauty of the close people is the reflection of the beauty of one's soul inside. Sadly, in this day and age there are few people who can see the beauty of themselves in the others. As we can see everywhere, marriage relationships can be a burning relationship, it can also make the soul bloom. It all depends on how smart a person grows there.

Bloom in Your Age

Being the enemy of age, that's one sign of restless and sleepless souls who are in danger. At a young age, they think that the light will be found in old age. As soon as they grow old, they begin to regretfully realize that there was a lot of opportunities at a young age that should be used. The end result is predictable, they are restless in young age, they are sleepless in old age.

After digging deeper in the meditation sessions, many of unpeaceful friends who reveal their secret, it turns out almost all the souls who are in danger have unhealthy habits. In short, deep inside they often talk to themselves like this: "I do not want to be here and now". That's why it's easy to understand that a Harvard researcher concluded that more than 50% of the time, modern people run into the past and the future. In other words, they are rarely living in the present.

White Dove of Peace

After the two Japanese cities were destroyed by bomb attacks decades ago, the cold war between the two superpowers ended tens of years ago, many people thought that the era of mass destructive weapons would pass. Some observers agreed, the war using weapons will be replaced with digital war. And the battlefield is the internet.

But the nuclear crisis that happen in North Korea and Iran which dominates world news in October 2017 is like turning the history back. Human fear of nuclear weapons reappears. That is why the Nobel peace prize committee in 2017 awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to anti-nuclear activists.

Rainbow at The Peak of Mount Agung

The quality of the net is visible in the middle of the sea. The quality of the hoe is visible in the midst of the hardness of the fields. In the same way, the spiritual attainment of a society can be seen clearly when disaster happens. If this is the measurement, the shadow of disaster caused by Mount Agung in September 2017 opened many secrets about the spiritual attainment of the Balinese.

As reported widely, the Balinese not only accept human refugees, even countless pets are welcome. A number of government officials are very careful not to contaminate the sacred messages with personal interests. And one thing that made many friends deeply touched, there was a voice of the sacred bell (kulkul) in Puri Klungkung (palace) even though no one tried to ring it.