The Beauty of Sadness

Almost everyone run away from sadness. Some even run into dangerous territories such as alcohol and drugs. And the reason behind, people consider sadness as mistakes and punishment. Any spiritual seekers who grow deep know, grief is similar to a nurturing mother who guide soul to be back home.

Angel of Joy

The dominant characteristic of people who rarely encountering joy, they feel uncomfortable to live in their body. The situation is similar to the coconut trees which naturally grow on the hot beach but they are forced to grow in the cool mountain. Tired, anxiety, tension are the daily menu of life.

Outer Conversation

It has become a regular sight everywhere that human being love to have outer conversations. Do not talk about politics and power, even religion and spirituality are full of debate. As a result, from day to day people getting away from themselves. There is a deep sense of alienation there. Stress, depression and even schizophrenia could happen there.

Profile

Gede Prama is a long student on peace. He began his childhood by communing with symbolical Guru in one of old village in north Bali. Later on when he learned from the life stories of many maha siddha (the enlightened), he began to understand his spiritual experience in childhood. This last experience then enriched by meditating, reading, researching and personal meeting with some of world wide spiritual Gurus like HH Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh and Karen Armstrong.

Scholarship enables Gede Prama to continue his post graduate study to England and France. Hard work makes Gede Prama was appointed as CEO (chief executive officer) of a large corporation at the age of 38. And one year later he left behind all luxuries of corporate world then begin a journey of serving. To serve people on the path of peace.

The Inner Peace

It has become the daily life menu of everybody that life is never absent of problem. When family problem solved, then office call telling that something need further decision. If the relationship with spouse recovered, children waiting for another help. Thinking that children school life is smooth, suddenly a teacher calls that she needs your help to lessen school burden created by your son.

Problem, problem and problem. Without giving any chance to run away, problem keep visiting everybody. The poor think that the rich have no problem, but in reality many well off people even face much complicated life than the poor. The rich who have been very boring with many complexities of being rich are jealous with those who they think enjoying simple life, but in fact these followers of simple life are also do not enjoy problem free of life.

Song of Peace

 One day Nasrudin asked God, why his wife is such beautiful. The Lord gently replied: "that's why you choose her". "My wife is not only pretty my lord but also soft", Nasrudin continues his inquiry. Again God answered with soft message: "that's why you choose her". This time with a deep apology, Nasrudin softly asked the last question: "why my wife is such stupid?". Again, the Lord replied gently : "that's why she choose you"

Being Friend of Yourself

This is the characteristic of people who rarely hear the song of peace, there's always elements of life that need to be discarded. Borrowing from in-depth research on humans who cause serious problems such as the radicalism, when someone attacks another person, part of other's life that is attacked is the same as the most hated parts of him/herself. Let's take anger as an example, when someone attacks the grumpy he/she actually hate his/her own anger.

Perfect Light

Human history is history of hope and disappointment. From the beginning people expected life to be peaceful and meaningful. But what happened,  Lord Buddha   Shakyamuni  tried   to   be   poisoned,  Jesus Christ was crucified, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr were shot. In our time,  Pakistan   is angry at India, India does not get along with China, Iran hates Israel, Israel treats Palestinians improperly. Everything move from darkness of disappointment to darkness of disappointment.

Knowing Death Knowing Life

Any one who run away from death will never understand life, this  is a message that is often heard in the deep spiritual realm. After reading the book of Sushila Blackman titled Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die, this message is really true. By understanding death, people not only understanding life, but also can rediscover the lost home. Blackman’s  book that contains the story of the death of 108 saints, can simply be condensed into three paths: the path of devotion, the path of knowledge, the pathless path.