Dear friends, I want to share my article with members of FourthWay Forum. This is about the link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues. You are requested to kindly read.


The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanosec… Continue

About the Asma ul Husna (the Divine Attributes), from the Asma ul Husna: the Beautiful Names of God (1) by Bawa Muhaiyadden (2):

"These 99 attributes are the names of His qualities. The duties which are performed according to these attributes are what the world calls miracles... What He performs is His duty, but the world says these duties are the miracles of God. They say they are His names, but they are not His names. He has no name. He is a power. That Power declares, "... Those ar… Continue

The following are a sampling of translations of Jalalaldin Rumi's poems, the Mathnawi.

People, it's okay with me if you want to delete comments from me. Once you've read them, I assume you got the point. It's not necessary to keep them posted if you'd rather not. :-)

In a previous blog-post, I gave a beginning work exercise, a breath meditation, which was used at Claymont and by my group leaders in Ontario:

http://fourthwayforum.ning.com/profiles/blogs/fourth-way-techniques-part-one

This breath meditation has a deep connection to the theme of 'beginnings,' because of the way it works on the attention. Done well, it purifies and calms the subtle energy associated with the power of attention. It facilitates the gathering and focusing of one's attention.

Mor… Continue