Maharishi - What creates real deep Peace: “The basis of peace is bliss. Unless one is happy, he cannot be in peace. Peace without lasting happiness is only passivity. When one sleeps in the night he feels absence of activity. This is called peace. But when he wakes up in the morning and comes into the field of thought, speech, and activity, he begins to feel miserable again. The peace felt by the absence of activity is not lasting. The peace gained by emptying the mind of thoughts, holding the mind in suspension, is due only to the lack of pressure of thought. When such a mind returns to the field of thinking and acting, it again begins to feel the pressures of thought and action. Then the individual begins to feel unpeaceful. All such practices of silencing the mind are wrong. Such practices continued for much time result in making the mind dull. There are many groups in the world who sit in silence and try to hear their inner voice or the voice of God, as they term it. All such practices make the mind passive and dull. Those who practice silencing the mind begin to lack in brilliance. Dullness can be seen on their faces. They are not energetic in the field of action. They look peaceful, but they are passive in life. Peace at the cost of activity is at the cost of life. Such an experience of peace is at the cost of efficiency in life and at the cost of life itself. An attempt to silence the mind in the hope of experiencing pure consciousness is pursuing a mirage. When one keeps the thoughts out of the mind, it becomes passive because it remains on the conscious thinking level without a thought. This practice makes the mind dull. What is necessary is not the attempt to vacate the mind, but that the conscious mind be led on to the subtle states of thinking to eventually transcend the subtlest state and arrive at the positive state of Being. Holding the mind on the conscious level is only taking it out of the field of activity and allowing it to be passive and inactive. This only helps to diminish the brilliancy of the mind and brings dullness and passivity to it. People who practice this do feel peace in life because they are practicing suppression or negation of thoughts. When a mind that has gained the quality of sluggishness and dullness through such practices does not have a thought in a very energetic manner and does not engage itself energetically in the field of experience and activity, peace is felt because of the innate dullness of the mind. But, whenever some serious problems in life arise, the mind feels a strain because it has been trained to remain dull and passive. When the individual must become active to accomplish some work in a very precise and energetic manner, the mind feels the strain. Such practices have also done great damage to the progress of the individual and society. Thus we find that practices that silence the mind in the first place produce dullness in the mind, and, in the second place, the peace that is felt is not lasting. As we have said, peace can be lasting only if the mind could be made happy forever. Only if the very nature of the mind could be transformed to bliss consciousness could peace be lasting. The quest for peace should be directed to bringing the mind to the field of the transcendent, the source of all happiness through the practice of Transcendental Meditation. When one is not peaceful, fear, lack of self-confidence, and all the pettiness in life arise and the consciousness of man becomes so abjectly miserable that he cannot think and cannot accomplish anything worthwhile. Fear is just lack of self-confidence, and the basis of confidence is in contentment which can only result from the experience of bliss. There is nothing in the world which can really bring lasting contentment to the mind because everything in the world, although it provides some happiness to the mind, is not intensive enough to satisfy the great thirst for happiness of the mind. The only field of contentment is the transcendental field of bliss consciousness. Unless one arrives at that state, one’s peace will always be threatened by everything in the world because of lack of contentment. The only golden gate to peace in life is the experience of transcendental bliss consciousness and this great glory of life is easy for everyone to achieve and live throughout life.” — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi from MERU Course
Kim Jong-un warns of change in direction on denuclearisation He made the remarks during his closely-watched annual New Year's address. Mr Kim said, "if the US does not keep its promise made in front of the whole world... and insists on sanctions and pressures on our republic, we may be left with no choice but to consider a new way to safeguard our sovereignty and interests". The annual New Year's address is a tradition Mr Kim picked up from his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, founder of the communist country. ..at the interdisciplinary Global Zen Consciousness Conference in Atlanta... The conference was organized by the Shaolin Chan [Zen] Foundation, which hopes to “create a worldwide revolution by combining the spheres of science and Eastern philosophy to help humanity realize that at the deepest sub-nuclear level and at the innermost consciousness level we are all one.” “This was a breakthrough event, with both the modern and ancient corroborating each other in an authentic and science-based manner,” said Dr. Schneider, dean of MUM’s College of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Hagelin spoke about the physics of consciousness and higher states of consciousness. Dr. Schneider discussed the physiological correlates.. Peace by the Meissner-like effect of groups meditating: Creating an Ideal Society: The phenomenon of a powerful influence of harmony spreading through a whole community or nation when a small fraction of the population practices the Transcendental Meditation technique is known as the Maharishi Effect [ME]. The influence of orderliness generated from the state of infinite correlation experienced during the Transcendental Meditation technique is so powerful that even one per cent of the people in society practising the Transcendental Meditation technique is sufficient to neutralize negative tendencies and give an evolutionary direction to community life as a whole. With the growth of individual consciousness, family consciousness, community consciousness, national consciousness, and world consciousness are enriched. More than one and a half million people currently practising the Transcendental Meditation technique are constantly intensifying the Maharishi Effect and contributing to the Age of Enlightenment. The dawn is rising to the day. 12 January 1977 Brave meditators, you have done all we asked you to do, and more than could be reasonably expected; but your own global country of World Peace is at stake, your partners, families, your homes and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships of waging world peace, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay in the Domes only one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty of all and to your global country of world peace which you probably never can do under any other circumstances. -Buck in the Dome Transcendental Meditation: Crime rate decreased in cities after one percent of their populations had begun practicing the Transcendental Meditation technique. -Editors Paper 98 Improved Quality of Life Through The Transcendental Meditation Program: Decreased Crime Rate Paper 98 Introduction In 1960 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, predicted that a transition in society toward a more orderly and harmonious functioning would occur when a small fraction -on the order of one percent- of a population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique (6), and in December 1974 we found that crime rate did decrease in four midwestern U.S. Cities in which one percent of the population was practicing the TM technique. Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program Collected Papers, Volume I, 1977 Editors, Orme-Johnson Farrow pp 727 From quite early on Maharishi Mahesh Yogi employed the radical direct action of groups meditating deployed in field effect as like the Meissner Effect of consciousness mediation of meditation as then even in 1962 meditating a peaceful resolution to the Cuban Missile crisis of 1962. Maharishi called for group meditations at that time to avert the critical danger of incoherence the world was suffering in at that moment in time. In a move of scientific radical peace-activism Maharishi lead group meditations against the turmoil in the world then. To his transcendental mediation we look back at it now as The Cuban missile crisis of 1962. Radicalism 1962, Radical Peace and The 1962 Cuban missile crisis: As a 20th Century revolutionary in radical peaceful affect, a prominent millenarian of his age, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was boundlessly persistent, constant and consistent in his coming out of India going around the world in peace activism of direct-action through introducing and inciting the mediation for peaceful resolution of world conflict by the effect of group meditation. Revolution: Maharishi's formula to change the world Waging Radical Peace, Maharishi 1983. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6lCNQ9DTOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6lCNQ9DTOY Radical Transcendentalism, ---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : 104 years ago last week the battles of Ypres began.. 19 October – 22 November 1914 the centenary of the Battle of Passchendaele - one of the bloodiest of World War One. Half a million Allied and German soldiers were killed, wounded or went missing in three months of fighting. Passchendaele 100 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40767601 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40767601 Third Ypres was the hellish battle that gave rise to the story of Haig's chief of staff being driven to the front and, as he viewed the muddy wasteland, breaking into tears and saying, "Good God, did we really send men to fight in that?" = "It gets worse," his driver said, "farther on up." The Radical Peace Conference, held this last month.. Scientists and policy makers joined together: https://www.gusp.org/global-peace-summit/ https://www.gusp.org/global-peace-summit/ UN refugee agency: A Record 65.6 million people displaced worldwide.. by conflict http://www.bbc.com/news/world-40321287 It is a smaller increase than 2014-15, when the figure rose by five million. But the UN high commissioner for refugees Filippo Grandi said it was still a disheartening failure of international diplomacy. "The world seems to have become unable to make peace," Mr Grandi said. "So you will see old conflicts that continue to linger, and new conflicts erupting, and both produce displacement… forced displacement is a symbol for wars that never end." "..in the field of conflict resolution, the first stage in the emergence of war is mounting societal stress—political, religious, and ethnic tensions. “If these tensions grow unchecked—if they reach a boiling point—they inevitably erupt in social violence, terrorism, and war,” Waging World Peace in Conflict Resolution. In addition to food aid delivered to regions with huge dislocated populations there should also be programs and resources allocated to conflict resolution. Resources for people in these regions to learn how to meditate as part of a process of larger conflict resolution in the world. A larger source in world food insecurity that is driving people from their homes is war, conflict. Both Science and experience say quite evidently that meditating and meditating in groups by effect creates peace. That meditation creates peace is now simply and plainly statistical fact, a truth. In the world today there are 65.8 million people displaced from their homes due to war. While the need right now for food is extreme to feed children and families dislocated by war the need for conflict resolution is huge also to stem the undertow tides of population dislocation in the world. US warns Beijing on South China Sea islands http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40141541 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40141541 Why is the South China Sea contentious? http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13748349 US President Donald Trump has said he would like to solve the North Korea crisis diplomatically, but that a "major, major conflict" is possible. In meditating here we, the world, can’t afford what leadership we have had on this. This is not a time to retreat on doing whatever we must in sustaining and even enlarging on group meditation here right now. "An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and to take the world along with it," Mr Tillerson said. North Korea tension: China 'seriously concerned' about nuclear threats. China's Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China opposed words or actions that could further raise tension. Damn the Torpedoes. .. It is time to deploy for peace. We need volunteers right now and then even conscription beyond this if we can't have the volunteers join in right away for world-wide service. Call up the reserves, even the young in their schools, the old too, the home-makers and the workers of our farms, factories and service industries, everyone. Like the old minute-soldiers of our frontier militias, the sons and daughters of liberty and committees of safety to deploy where ever they are, to stop in their busy outer lives and take the time to go within even for a moment's meditation where ever they Be! It is time to activate the transcendental meditator as mediator in field effect of peace everywhere. The Dome doors open for meditation at 6:40am and 4:00pm CST For any who do not have a Dome badge, there is an open silent group meditation at 5pm weekdays at 51 N. Court in Fairfield. South China Sea Heats Up Again. Philippine Army To Occupy Disputed Islands In South China Sea http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/06/522891024/duterte-orders-philippine-army-to-occupy-disputed-islands-in-south-china-sea http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/06/522891024/duterte-orders-philippine-army-to-occupy-disputed-islands-in-south-china-sea from e-mail, it would be great to have an air conditioning program for N. Korea like Maharishi had for China before. 'Damn the Torpedoes'? We are talking targeted nuclear tipped warhead missiles there and If only one of those goes off anywhere over there..
