What I Got to Learn from the Peace Revolution Fellowships
Through the Peace Revolution Fellowship, I understood the meaning of Peace In + Peace Out = Sustainable World Peace.
I Find Peace Like This
Through the Peace Revolution Fellowship, I understood the meaning of Peace In + Peace Out = Sustainable World Peace.
Three stories of three young people (Evgenia from Russia, Carmen from Italy and Giorgos from Cyprus) who became interested in meditation during the training course “SUSTAINOFUTURELAND” in Demänovská Dolina, Slovakia.
Indra’s net, in Hinduism and Buddhism, is a metaphor used to illustrate the philosophy of interdependence. The image associated with it is beautiful! A net where every node is a jewel (diamonds) representing life, and each jewel reflects all the others.
Many of the Peace Revolution guided sessions finish with a loving-kindness meditation. I feel happy and silently excited during this moment. The idea is to garner enough peace energy to share the love, joy, kindness with communities and the greater world. Practicing loving-kindness makes a person open to use it on a daily basis in real life, be kinder, more mindful, in the everyday human interactions.
And then, as I am standing in the rain, hearing thunder and seeing lightning, I cannot believe the absurdity – a giant cockroach has kicked me out of the apartment.
It’s not easy to let go while we meditate, that’s because our mind has been used to unorganized things around us. We can improve the stillness of our mind by organizing the things around our room, house and office.
You say they are of another faith,
Another creed, or another race,
Incompatible, un-mixable
There is enough material on how and why to meditate on the internet. So maybe, I cannot offer anything new. But maybe, I can offer an understanding of connections between how things work.
Have you ever imagined meditation to be something complicated and possible only with lots of efforts? Probably Google and the cinematographic depiction of meditation postures might have had something to do with that.