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A guest post by By Father Peter Bowes

Many say they believe in God, but believing in God is not the same as having a direct experience of God. Direct means first-hand, not second-hand. It is not hearsay or conjecture. Direct means something happens to you. You go through something, and then you can say you have had an experience. Throughout history, belief in God has resulted in people gathering for worship in churches, mosques, and temples. All over the world people still congregate based on similar beliefs about God. But how many can really say they know God? [Read more →]

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We all are parts of a big cosmic whole. Often in our busy involvement in the daily tasks of life, we forget about this eternal truth.

One of the easiest and most effective way to reconnect with the divine source is to spend some time with nature. We all are part of the nature, yet for most of us nature has become a sort of alien subject. In our concrete home, we seldom or never care to look at the sky. To look at the rain drops, to experience the cool breeze, to walk on the grass, to observe the greenery, to touch a tender flower- all these tiny tasks can result in an instant connection with the nature. However, how many of us try to connect with nature this way.

If you really want to deepen your meditation practice, you should give nature a try. Just do something daily to ensure a direct connect with some part of the nature. Try to touch and feel at least some part of the nature be it earth, water, wind, plants, trees, grass or any animal.

We all have a limited life span on earth. None of us will live forever. In this short time span, we should try to increase our awareness towards this phenomenon called life. An increased awareness will result in a higher consciousness.

The rules of spiritual life are not at all complicated. They are very simple and easy. We only need to just take a pause and think: where are we going? Are we doing something meaningful in our life – something that will have a lasting impact on our lives? Are we living a life of quality or it is just a life of quantitative abundance with no real charm ?

A few months ago I read a very interesting title of a book: Go Kiss the World.

This week’s meditation message is: Go Kiss the Nature.

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Life is small and we all shall die one day. Yet we never think about this stark reality and keep living like robots. The message from of the universe is :

Go Slow.

Do what you Love.

You are not here for eternity.

I request you to kindly read the following life changing speech given by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer, during his Commencement address at Stanford University on June 12, 2005. This is one of the most inspiring and deeply moving speech I ever came acroos in my life.

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? [Read more →]

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If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.” -Matthew 17:19-20

I wish all the readers of MeditationIsEasy.Com, a very happy and joyful Christmas

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem science has with God, The Almighty.

He asks one of his new students to stand and…..

Prof:
So you believe in God?

Student:
Absolutely, sir.

Prof
: Is God good?

Student:
Sure.

Prof:
Is God all-powerful? [Read more →]

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“Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.”

“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”

- Albert Einstein

A few days ago India faced the worst terrorist attack on its soil. More than 150 people including 22 foreigners were kiled in the attack.

These people did it in the name of Allah, the great almighty. But they don’t know how much damaged they have inflicted on the image of Islam.

Often I think whether the concept of institutionalized religion has benefited the humanity at all? Some of the most violent and protracted unsolved problems have their root cause in religion. Be it Palestine, Kashmir or Afghanistan, everywhere you can find the imprint of a religious fight.

Had it not be better if humans are allowed to live just as what they are - simple, plain human beings? Just like thousands of other species in the world ? Just why on earth, we have created so many divisions in the name of religion ?

Terrorists who perpetrated the coward act of killing innocents in Mumbai are - at their very basic level- just like any other human beings. However,  they have completely lost their ability to think wisely and take their own decision. A constant exposure to the ideology of hate and violence has brainwashed their  mind completely. They and thousand like them have become blind followers of a destructive ideology that will eventually destroy them.

Ironically, some of the most complex problems have very simple solution. Those who have stopped using their mind, those who have stopped thinking beyond the boundary of their religion and those whose hearts are filled with anger and hate - all these people are only need to try some sort of meditation practice to realize the fallacy of their narrow thinking.

Once they go inwards they will realize the same permanent thread of consciousness in themselves which is present in their enemies also.

Once you realize that at the basic level we are part of a great organic whole, it becomes very difficult for you to harbor the thoughts of hate and violence against anybody. A regular practice of meditation results into a permanent feeling of harmony with the universe.

However, the sad thing is that the harbinger of death are too busy spreading the poison of hate to find any time for a creative activity like meditation. The politics of hate and conspiracy appears too strong in the present time.

Nevertheless, despite living in a negative and pessimist world, I still feel that eventually the Universe will unfold itself into a more positive, optimist  and secure world.  The dark night of hate and violence - no matter how long it appears now- will end one day.  Negative forces can’t last forever.

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