The Peace Revolution Project was started in 2008 when someone pretty cool decided to start talking to the world about what he believed: Inner Peace can lead to World Peace, if people could just learn how to find inner peace for themselves! He got together with some other people who believed the same thing... and, well, here we are!
So... we have invented what we think is a chill way to have some fun with inner peace... aka meditation. We taped some meditation experts and you can check them out on MP3s; you can learn more about what inner peace really is; you can take a few fun quizzes; and then, if you want to get serious, you can do an on-line self-development program. You can even post questions on our Peace Wall for our online community. So hang back, and cruise the site. It's the best place to be.
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BastKatLightWorker says:
Jul 29, 2010
Peace Rebel
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Jomsri - Lummayos says:
Gaiandreamer says:
OPS Name
A Space of Silence: Sensuous Serenity with Sweet & Savory Snacks
Why this OPS?
I know some of my family members and friends lack experience with their spirituality and are unaware of other ways to search for their true happiness as they are cultured to look outside of themselves, rather than within. I feel it is my responsibility to keep the teachings of Buddha alive and to help everyone or anyone I can. Since I have been practicing Inner Peace for some time, I feel it is now time to share my understanding of Meditation and of Dhamma with my friends and family, and be a Kalayanamitra to them. After all I feel Inner Peace sharing should start at home, and I would love to utilize the tools I have gained so far and share my knowledge with my close family and friends. Not everyone can make the evening so I have suggested to hold events on other evenings as many of my friends and relatives are interested.
Objectives
In a nutshell, my aim is to make more people 'aware', so my first objective is to give reverence to my role as a Peace Rookie and offer some insight to the instruction I have received so far. I wish to share my knowledge and understanding from my Self Development Program from my Dhamma research. As a lay person of the community it is necessary for the preservation of Buddhism to uphold as best as we can the values taught and to spread this whenever possible alive Secondly, my objective is to create a time of celebration and unity for all of those who attend, thus providing an opportunity to strengthen the bonds between us whilst forming new bonds between those who have not yet. Many will be new to the experience so it will be a memory for us to share and progress from. We will also have much for discussion in the immediate after math and in the future. I hope this will provide motivation to provide further thoughts for their consideration, contributing to a snowballing effect of their experiences being dispersed to others. Thirdly, I wish to create an opportunity for everyone to have a space of silence, to show how easy it is to move themselves away from the outside reality and to provide a potential antidote to stresses that they may perceive in the future. Many have busy schedules to attain to and I would very much like them to experience a feeling of joy and serenity in the time I schedule for solitary silence. Hopefully, they will see that this can provide a regular constructive escape to their challenges as opposed to the customs Westerners normally engage in such as binge drinking and eating. Fourthly, I wish to push through through the barriers that are existent among many of my fellow friends and family. I believe some of them to have limited beliefs, in the form of stereotyped opinions passed on through generations and through society. Conventional labels attached to meditation and to the Practitioners’ involved in such concentration and reverie are negative. In my culture, meditation is often a laughable action that is mimicked and seen as a ‘soft’ or as a ‘silly’ escape to the realities of life. Finally, I want to potentially show others that true happiness is within us and it does not come from materialistic aims, from a need to form attachments in others, or from the success of educational advancement or professional achievements. We can look within rather than outwardly, through Inner Peace Time, to to fill possible voids in our emotional and mental security. Our culture is prey to the over exemplification of awarding those excelling in their vocational lives and we are victim to looking at our successes in terms of our material wealth.
How to implement it?
I have decided to hold an event for my friends and relatives that allows them an opportunity to learn to relax and nourish their bodies and mind. I will be engaged in the preparations of this party and then in the conducting of it. I will be offering regular open house opportunities for developing in-depth meditative practice. To begin with I will set the dining area so it is spacious and open, so when we are seated as we are all arriving, there is a freedom for us to move about and get comfortable. I will play a compilation of music that includes positive tones and beautiful words, celebrating such things as human love and unity. This will create an ambience of welcome celebration, and I hope it will be relaxed and informal but similarly marking an important occasion. I will lead the event and offer my genuine gratitude for their arrival and participation, and then I will briefly open up an opportunity for discussion after I have expressed the purpose and meaning of the event. I will prepare another room for a mediation, this will have lots of sheets and cushions available for seating positions to mediate. It will be colorful and warm so it immediately brings a sense of celebrated enjoyment in our hearts. I will offer the opportunity to allow them to relax and I will become an exemplar; I will show them my mediative position and provide help and information for others to find their comfortable posture and seating. I will then spend 5-10 minutes providing a verbal instructions and physical demonstration to guide them through their breathing technique. When I feel they are all ready, I will leave the venerable Joshua, on MP3 format, take over and sanction time for their inner peace, their silent space of serenity. When the meditation session had ceased, I will remind them to come away slowly and give some time for them to ‘come to’. When we are ready, I will offer them to join me downstairs in the kitchen and help themselves to the refreshments I have prepared. Here, we will discuss all encountered experiences and enjoy the time to eat together.
Benefits
The benefits are, that each of us can extend and strengthen our fellowship, and potentially there will be a motivation amongst those participating, to continue on in their journey of mediative practice. I am sure there will be the immediate benefit of enjoyment from the evenings socializing and from the time spent in their space of solitary silence. They will hopefully feel an immediate relief after mediating and be aware that inner peace time is available very easily as an antidote to stresses that may be experienced in their daily lives. Their awarenesses of the inner peace concept can be utilized among those who practiced it and in those people whom they pass on this understanding to.