Last Wednesday, our Meditation/Study group had an extremely lively discussion regarding the movie Zeitgeist. If you haven't seen the movie, it can be viewed online at www.zeitgeistmovie.com.
There had been some comment beforehand that the movie exposed very disturbing views of the world (religion, politics, money, power) and that sensitive people might be actually set back along their healing path. Pretty valid as we yogis are selective as to what we feed our Mano Maya Kosha.
In the end, we focused on this quotation from the movie:
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." Sri Chinmoy Ghose
The movie also stipulated that an organism at war with itself was an organism doomed. We loved exploring this sentiment as it fits perfectly with the yogic concept of unification. All religions, all nationalities, all species in harmony, yes!
We finished our meeting with a loving kindness meditation. Here are the words if anyone wishes to repeat it at home.
"May all beings be happy,
May all beings be peaceful,
May all beings enjoy well being;
May all beings be free"
This is repeated silently for at least 3x, then the words altered slightly to
"May all in this room be happy...... free"
And then the words changed again to
"May I be happy..... free".
Our next meeting will be on Wednesday March 16 at 6:30 pm. Watch the website and facebook for topics.
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