Street-Wise Spirituality – What Does It Truly Mean To Be "Awake"? – by Mark Passio – May 31, 2014 – Video

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Derrick Broze from The Conscious Resistance on Roads To Liberty – Addiction, Spirituality, The Road. – Video

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Udupi: Corruption has not spared even religion and spirituality – Kemar Swamiji

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Udupi, Aug 31: 'Sarva Dharma Samavesha', an inter-religious convention was held as part of Ganeshothsava celebrations in Kurkalu here on Saturday August 30. The programme also marked the silver jubilee celebrations of Kurkalu Sarvajanika Ganeshotsava Samiti.

Esha Vittaladas Swamiji of Kemar Sandeepani Sadhanashrama, addresing the gathering said, "Corruption, which is present in all walks of life, has not spared even religious and spiritual spheres. Today, we can see people being duped of their money in the name of superstitions by those who play with their religious sentiments. Earning money while ignoring values has become everyone's priority."

He added that the lap of a mother was holier than any Math and if mothers impart religious education to their children, they could protect and safeguard the society.

Fr Leslie DSouza, parish priest of St Johns Church, Shankerapura said, "Where there is truth and love, there is peace. If we develop religious harmony just like the aroma of Shankerapura jasmine, it will drive away superstition and the human religion will brighten up."

Wakf board Udupi member Maulana K A Abdul Rehman Razwi said that only those who did not have proper knowledge of religion become fanatics

"If we ensure that politics does not interfere in religion, harmony can be upheld," he said.

Karkala CSI pastor Goldwin G Bangera said, "In the past, people of all religions used to visit the houses of those who celebrated feasts. However, these days, the celebrations are restricted to sending packets of food at the most. It is sad that friendship is becoming weak. Strengthening religious harmony is the need of the hour."

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Dementia is Scariest for Baby Boomers – expert here in NZ

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26 August 2014

Dementia is Scariest for Baby Boomers But Meaning in Life Can Still be Found

Getting dementia tops the list of fears for older people including baby boomers, says a celebrated world authority on ageing and spirituality.

Yet, paradoxically, ageing is a natural state and it is possible to find meaning in life even in dementia, she says.

Australias 74 year old Rev Prof Elizabeth MacKinlay will be in New Zealand this week for workshops and a conference hosted by The Selwyn Foundation, a New Zealand charitable trust providing residential care, independent living and community services for older kiwis.

The workshops are Spiritual Reminiscence in Dementia, and are designed to help those working in aged care support those with dementia. The workshops encourage professionals to help people with dementia unlock what is important to them, and help them find meaning at the end of their lives.

Without exception, everyone searches for meaning from mid life onwards. I have found the search for meaning is across different ethnic groups and cultures, says Prof MacKinlay. This is the final life career the end of life. Its just as important as anything thats gone before it. The second half of life is spiritual. You ask: why am I here? Whats been the purpose of my life? When were busy doing things, we sometimes put off the task of looking into this question. Suddenly, we may be confronted. Is it too late? The big questions start to emerge. Even in dementia, the search for meaning is there.

One of the key issues for dementia healthcare, she says, is that everything it practises is about measuring and judging. We think of humans as cognitive. We live in a hypercognitive society. Yet the person with dementia still has the ability to be emotional, and to find meaning. Research has shown over the past few years that centres of the brain which deal with emotion are probably not damaged by dementia until very late in the disease, if at all, she says. When you are diagnosed with dementia, you become aware you are being tested all the time. Youre given tests by the healthcare teams. It feels like youre being tripped up. Yet some of this may not be relevant to you as a person. So our workshops teach people caring for those with dementia to help people with dementia connect with their past and bring it into the present. Its a conversation that begins with: whats most important to you? Where do you find purpose in life?

Professor MacKinlay says she was confronted early with the question of lifes meaning, when she was diagnosed with cancer in her thirties. It was a time of deep self examination, a wakeup call. I began to make the journey Im now on.

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Jainists nourish their spirituality as fast ends

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Ashok Savla is joyful as he is surrounded by well-wishers before breaking his 45-day fast for Paryushan, the most important Jain holiday of the year. He was at the Jain Center of Southern California in Buena Park on Saturday. His wife, Harshona, is beside him.

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BUENA PARK Before Saturday, Ashok Savla had not had a thing to eat for 45 days.

Not one crumb.

Only water from sunup to sundown, he said. Nothing at night.

I feel great, Savla said, sitting at an oblong table in an auditorium at the Jain Center of Southern California.

Hundreds of his fellow congregants lined up to pay him homage.

I feel like I achieved what I wanted to ... I wanted to go within myself.

Fellow Jainists dropped dollar bills on his table and fed Savla spoonfulls of sugar water and light broth. They did the same for the 50-plus members of the Jain Center who had fasted for at least eight days as part of Paryushan, an eight-day holy period that ended Friday night.

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Powerful Vashikaran Ke Totke by Pujya Guru Rajneesh Rishi Ji – Video

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Prof Dr. Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi The Malaysian Insider 30 August 2014

When I was invited by my colleagues to deliver a talk to a group of final year architecture students at UiTM on the subject of Community Center for Malaysia, I ended up talking about what being a Malaysian community means to me. From the reaction of the 80 strong students, no one had ever given a talk closest to the one I delivered ever since they set foot at UiTM. The following is an extraction of my power point presentation set in an essay format. I want to share these thoughts with all Malaysians, particularly with my Malay and Muslim friends, relatives and colleagues. I am sorry to say that I have the perception that of all the races in Malaysia, the Malays seem to be the least in understanding what being a Malaysian is all about.

I want to say that I can understand if a Malay says that they want to be Muslim first because God is greater than country but that does not give a blank check in being ill mannered and obnoxious and downright threatening to other religious adherents in order to get a certain point across. It also does not mean keeping in a lock-up two young teenagers just for wishing Muslims the breaking of fast by eating Bak-kut-teh. It also does not give any right for Muslims to threaten to slap an elected female representative or threaten to burn the holy books of the Christians. Malays and Muslims may disagree with me and even despise me but from where I am standing the loudest and most common bigots and racists in this country arethe Malays, especially from Perkasa and Isma.

The fact that these NGOs seem to get away with their unruly conduct is gravely disturbing indeed. But, on the ground, the fact that many teachers, head teachers, university students, professors, lecturers, taxi drivers and the many Mak Ciks and Pak Ciks, hang on their every word is the most frightening scenario for the well-being of the people of this nation. In my book, after 57 years of singing the Negara ku and filling televisions and youtubes with a feel good merdeka commercial, our grade is an F for failing to live up to the visions of our founding fathers like Tunku Abdul Rahman and Onn Jaafar. Plainly speaking, we are a divided nationby ignoranceand worseby choice.

Thus, it is with this sad and somber introduction that I offer my thoughts on how we should rebuild this country. I do not much care about the concerns of political parties on both sides of the divide because, again from where I am sitting, the two coalitions are simply fighting over who would own Malaysia and its wealth. Neither one is actually seriously putting across a viable concept and process of how to turn around this country on the path of moralistic, spiritual and cultural prosperity. Many Malaysians do not care two hoots about these three agendas for all their concerns is simply on a big house, a big car and a nice overseas holiday with a comfortable medical insurance expense as well as a good children education fund. But because of this ignorance, all that Malaysians covet will be meaningless and ultimately loss in a raging fire of hatred, mistrusts and civil unrest. The sparks have already began to flicker into life and is simply awaiting a small can of fuel to start the raging inferno of ethnic cleansing. Too dramatic a portrayal? I think not.

Henceforth, let us all ponder on the following words that I had put together in my definition of a Malaysian community:

A Malaysian Community is a Community that comprises of people from different ethnic groups who reveres deeply their religious and individual cultural heritage and respects reverently other ethnic groups with their own religious and cultural inheritance in a spirit of democratic and civil harmony while believing fervently that their very differences are their strength and that these differences complete their social and spiritual assets. In short, One Malaysia is truly a Many Malaysia.

There are two separate parts to the above mentioned statement. The first part is a basic necessity; that of respecting the differences of culture and belief of each race and adherents. The second part is the ultimate condition if Malaysia is to survive the storms of racial hatred and bigotry; that we all accept our differences to be our social and even spiritual assets.

With reference to the first part, we must ask the question ourselves, do we respect one anothers belief system and cultural norms? The Malays believe that other races must be subservient to them because of their Malayness and Islam. It is for this reason that many cultural, education and political policies are twisted towards these two items. Now, before the Malays call me a traitor to my own kind, and the Muslims call for my beheading a la Isis fighters, I beg please think awhile. Where has this policy gotten us? 57 years of failure. The attempt to only allow Islam to be taught in public schools and universities have resulted in a deep seated resentment by other religious adherents and the result is the proliferation of vernacular and Islamic religious schools that have deeply divided our society from its very core the young.

The preference of the arts in emphasizing the dramas, poetry and songs of a single ethnic group again fuel this self-alienation. The fact that Dewan Bahasa does not publish adequate books that would bridge the cultural gap is greatly telling of the cancerous nature of our national malady. Just ask any university student a few question on cultural rituals of other races and they would fail miserably. After 57 years there is still no confidence of giving the Vice Chancellorship of a public university to a non-Malay. This is not respecting other cultures. How are we to proceed for the next 57 years if we cannot even bring ourselves to even get a passing mark in this first of all basic necessity?

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