Anand Krishna Raised the Spirit of Nationality on the National Resurrection’s Day
Anand Krishna Centre Denpasar located in Jalan Pura Mertasari, Sunset Road, Kuta, Bali, held some activities which aimed to raise the spirit of nationality in the commemoration of National Resurrection’s Day, on Thursday night, 20th of May.
The event, which involved dozens of youngster, became such media to fertilize togetherness as well as uplift the spirit of nationality for supporting the efforts of defending the national integrity....
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Meditating on the Media
The media is the most powerful entity on earth,” said the American black militant leader Malcolm X, popular in the 1960s. For, in his own words, “They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
How does the media do this? How does it control the minds of the masses?....
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Science Meets the Arts
Hardly? Impossible? Not in Bali.
Here, science and the arts are not poles apart. Here, science and the arts are not opposed to each other. On this beautiful isle of gods, the two not only meet, but also complement each other.
This is the inner significance of Saraswati, the Goddess of Knowledge and Music....
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Living Meditatively
Many people have a wrong notion of meditation and meditators. They feel that meditators should be in tattered clothes, and living in a hut, deep in the forest. Well, if you choose to live so, then that is your choice. But there is no rule that a meditator should live such a life.
In fact, living in the forest does not prove how meditative you are. Your meditation is proven when you live amidst the madding crowd of the world and remain sane....
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Celebrating Silence
We normally associate celebrations with noise, loud music, singing, partying and of course crowds of people. Not so with the Balinese; not always. Here, on this isle of gods, silence and solitude are celebrated too. Indeed, the most important celebration here is that of silence. Yes, I am speaking about Nyepi – the day of silence....
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Becoming Mastermind
Having written last week that “hypnosis or hypnotherapy can be used as tools to open one to meditation,” or to strengthen an already weakened brain, I must, once again, emphasise this. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are not the only tools; there are several other, much, much safer ones, including but not limited to certain yogic exercises.
Why do I say “much, much safer tools”? Do I imply that hypnosis or hypnotherapy is not safe enough as a tool?...
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National Integration Movement (NIM), under the auspice of Anand Ashram, was appointed as a committee to hold a commemoration of peace at the former Bali bomb site in Kuta. The theme was "From Bali Building A Word Anew with Peace, Love and Harmony" and the event was conducted on 12 October 2007. So far, NIM has actively campaigned for the switch of paradigm of the Ground Zero into Ground for Peace, Love and Harmony.
