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Bulletin by Diane Di Prima

Jai Ma - Thank God for Ma - for teaching us to serve and to use energy of pain for fuel in the seva.
This is an awesome poem - warning: graphic - but shows the obvious need for
compassionate action and care.

With love, Lalita

BULLETIN by Diane Di Prima

It is happening even as you read this page. By the time you finish reading this it will be over.

She will have left the hotel and disappeared. He will have eaten the pills. That one will slip and crack her skull on the floor. That one will go out in a driveby shooting.

halfway around the world the bombs are dropping

As you read these words it is already too late. 200,000 children will have starved. One of them held the Jewel in his brain, another could cure plagues with her breath.

As you read this line one thousand have died of AIDS.
They die alone hidden in furnished rooms. They die on the ground all over Africa.

halfway around the world the bombs are falling

Do not think to correct this by refusing to read.
It happens as you put down the paper, head for the door.
The ozone reaches the point of no-return

the butterflies bellyflop, the last firefly, etc.
Do not think to correct this by reading.

The bombs burst the small skull of an Arab infant the silky black hair is stuck to your hands with brains. W/bits of blood. There is less shrieking than you would expect

a soft silence. The silence of the poor, those who could not afford to leave. Drop flowers on them from yr mind, why don't you? "I guess we'll have to stay and take our chances."

They die so silently even as we speak

Black eyes of children seek eyes of the dying mother
bricks fall dirt spurts like fountains in the streets.
In the time you fill a cup they die of thirst.

In the time it takes to turn off the radio.
Not past, not future

The huts are blazing now. South of Market a woman ODs with an elegant sigh. No more no less than is needed.

halfway around the world the bombs are dropping

-- Diane di Prima

luminous clarity

Profound and tranquil, free from complexity,
Uncompounded luminous clarity,
Beyond the mind of conceptual ideas;
This is the depth of the mind of the buddhas.
In this, there is not a thing to be removed,
Nor anything that needs to be added.
It is merely the immaculate,
Looking naturally at itself.

~Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche

Bring Inner Peace With a Simple Word, & Remembrance

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-18399-Honolulu-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d20-Bring-Inner-Peace-With-a-Simple-Word--Remembrance

OM, like Amen, means the Divine which manifests as all that is. OM is the "word. As the Bible says in John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word." One interpretation of "Word" in this passage is primal sound or vibration from which all other names and forms arise and to which we all return. OM is the Alpha and the Omega.

Repetition of OM or AUM dissolves the mind into its Divine Source. If you chant OM several times out loud it purifies the atmosphere. It clear the mind, and it brings you peace. Try it. Chant at least 7 OM's in succession. Make each breath last as long as possible. Take a deep breath in and start the exhalation with Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh then Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh then Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Also, try this with a group of people. In the group, each person - all together - chants OM continuously with no breaks for 5 minutes. Fill the air with OM. It will ring through your whole heart and body. You will experience such joy and peace. (Note: If you feel self-conscious, then please just continue and practice allowing your voice to be heard. Practice self-acceptance, and your body will begin to relax.)

Each day, practice chanting OM for five or ten minutes. (Even one minute helps so much.) Then sit for a moment of Silence. You will be amazed! Experience is better than all words! Practice is better than tons of study. As Rumi said so beautifully, "Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open teh door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

Try repeating OM as a mantra for meditation. Repeat OM silently to yourself. You can practice this all day long and everyday. It will always bring peace to your heart and life. It will bring you into the "new" as my beloved guru Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati teaches us (www.kashi.org). When the mind wanders bring it gently back to OM again and again.

You can also practice this with the word "God" or your name for your Beloved. Repeat "God" all day long. When the mind wanders and gets stressed, simply bring the thoughts back to God. Aloha.

© 2009 Heather Havey, M.A. www.peacethroughkindness.com

Listen to Love: "comfort and peace for you"

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Words by Lily

You Are God's Peace - from A Course In Miracles

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Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. It sheds Its Light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your Peace with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.

- Choose Once Again: Selections From A Course In Miracles p.51

Listen to Love: God is with you.

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people act with hidden agendas

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The world is your mirror...you are awesome.

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Listen to Love: You deserve happiness and peace.

© 2009 Peace Through Kindness * text by Heather Havey

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Native Americans view all life as sacred.

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May your life be filled with joy...
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Saint Isaac of Syria

Saint Isaac of Syria (circa 7th century)
Nestorian monk from Beth Abhe on the Persian Gulf
Bishop of Nineveh (circa 660-680)

BE AT PEACE WITH YOUR OWN SOUL





Be at peace with your own soul
then heaven & earth will be at peace with you.

Enter eagerly into the treasure
house that is within you,

And you will see the things that are in heaven,
for there is but one single entry to them both.

The ladder that leads to the Kingdom
is hidden within your soul...

Dive into yourself and in your soul
and you will discover the stairs
by which to ascend.

Peaceableness

quoted on the awesome blog Peace And Holiness

"What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. We should recognize that while we have extravagantly subsidized the means of war, we have almost totally neglected the ways of peaceableness. We have, for example, several national military academies, but not one peace academy. We have ignored the teachings and the examples of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other peaceable leaders. And here we have an inescapable duty to notice also that war is profitable, whereas the means of peaceableness, being cheap or free, make no money." - Wendell Berry