The Spiritual Side
June 11th, 2009 by Barry Eaton
WORTH EXPLORING
Peaceful World Conversations
http://peacefulworldconversations.org/peaceful-world-conversations
As part of a movement to restore the lost art of conversation, Peaceful World Conversations bring people together to talk about topics that matter in their own lives and in the world as a whole. Popular for years as Breakfast Conversations at San Francisco’s Red Vic, the Peaceful World Conversation movement now enjoys a spreading popularity. The existing and evolving reality in which humans live has always been birthed in ideas, then expressed in groups and carried into action. World Conversations combines these factors and sends its participants out into the world to share their knowledge.
The last sermon of the Buddha
Before dying, the Buddha gave his last sermon. This last sermon had eight main points:
1) The more desires one has, the more they will suffer. Our mere existence is suffering. In our life we distinguish pleasure from suffering and tend to cling to pleasure. This is our inherent nature. But suffering is inseparable from pleasure, for one is never found without the other. Therefore, the more we seek pleasure and avoid suffering, the more entangled we become in the duality of pleasure and suffering.
2) Be content with our state of being. If we are not satisfied with our state of being we will be slaves to the five desires which stem from the five senses.
3) When the self and the external world become one, eternal serenity is enjoyed. Forget the self, forget others. Become one with no barrier between the self and the outside world.
4) Without any interruption, practice meditation. Meditation includes not only sitting. Every moment of one’s life is meditation. This means to experience the oneness of yourself, time, and place.
5) Do not forget what the Buddha taught. As Buddha was dying, he told his disciples to forget about him and his belongings. The important thing was to remember his teachings.
6) When we enter samadhi and understand impermanence, we are unshaken. Everything is constantly changing, including ourselves.
7) Nonattachment is the essential wisdom. Because all existence is fleeting, attachment to them is wasteful.
When we reach enlightenment we and the world become one, and there is no duality.
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The Star Kids,
I spent an amazing Saturday at the Children of the New Earth Conference (in Sacramento, California.)
Imagine if you will a cluster of meetings rooms and hallways filled with well over one hundred Star Kids and Star Seed adults.
I tell you, the energy was amazing! I was so jazzed that I woke up at 3 am this morning still buzzing from that energy.
The gathering was almost 100% Star Kids and Star Seed adults. I lost count on how many scores of people whose energy fields I dowsed at my table at the conference. I found only one single person who dowsed as Regular Human. ALL the rest were Star Seeds/Kids.
Even those children and parents who were not familiar with the Star Kid concept, and had been working with the (provisional) labels of “Indigo” or “Crystal” children, were very receptive to learning about Star Kids and why the Star Visitor aspect completes the explanation of why these amazing new children are different and advanced.
I was on a panel of experts at the final event of the day, and while other experts focused on clinical labels such as Asperger’s Disorder, Attention-Deficit Disorder, etc. to explain some of these New Children’s differences in expressing themselves and behaving, no one seemed taken aback when I explained the differences and advanced operating abilities in terms of star heritage.
Many minds were opened to a new depth of understanding of why there are so many New Children among us.
The effect when you get a concentration of virtually 100% Star Kids/Seeds in one place is quite striking. The ambient good-energy, good-feeling atmosphere was almost tangible. Everyone was pleasant. cheerful, mutually respectful, and relaxed at being in a safe accepting environment – like a big family reunion.
This Saturday I got a taste of what immersion in a completed Fifth World society would be like, For those magic twelve hours, Fifth World had emerged in the ballroom and meeting rooms of the Red Lion Inn in Sacramento.
This immersion experience only makes me want to work the harder to have Fifth World society emerge globally.
in the light,
Richard Boylan, Ph.D.
Richard Boylan, Ph.D., LLC
President, Star Kids Project, Ltd