Albert Einstein: The Negro Question (1946)

LJ_36AALBERT EINSTEIN: THE NEGRO QUESTION (1946)

I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more than ten years. And I am writing seriously and warningly. Many readers may ask:

“What right has he to speak about things which concern us alone, and which no newcomer should touch?”

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When you surrender your mind to your soul…

 

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“When you will surrender your mind to your soul, then the soul will make God surrender to you. Don’t react in doubt, guilt, or insecurity. This is a truth.” Yogi Bhajan
 (via Ram Anand)

Will you die like a little worm…

 

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“Will you die like a little worm, burrowed in the earth, where no one, not even a grandchild, will remember you and have thanks? That is a choice. That is why you encounter the mind. That is why you rise in the twilight to become a huge light!” Yogi Bhajan
 (via Ram Anand)

The applied mind seeks out the positive mind’s solutions…

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“The Applied Mind seeks out the Positive Mind’s solutions, but limits them to what is directly applicable to your goal. In this way it is strong, extremely simple, and achieves results quickly. It also prevents overloading that can occur if the Positive Mind spins off on its own freely.

When you open your eyes…

 

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“When you open your eyes, don’t open them to see how to be rich. Open your eyes to be able to make people rich. Don’t open your eyes to become wise or to gather knowledge. Open your eyes to make other people wise. Become vast and remember that you are a part of this entire cosmos. It’s a cosmos that should be served by you and the legacy of your wisdom, love, affection, sweetness, kindness and your compassion and caring. Train your mind to relate to your totality and to act without fear.” Yogi Bhajan
 (via Ram Anand)

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“The greatest thing you can do is rise in the early morning and do a sadhana – a practice to energize the body and refine your mind. Most of us rebel and go crazy rather than get up early. There are two special time zones, when you have to enrich your mind: one in the morning, from 4am to 8am, and one in the evening, from 4pm to 8pm. These are natural moments that have a tide of energy within you and without. The sun and Earth have a special relationship and angle at those times that affect your mind and your energy.” Yogi Bhajan

You have fashions and faculties in your mind…

 

SSSYWaYou have fashions and faculties in your mind. You fashion is how you decide to look, act, and be; how you want to project your self into the world. You can be a person of spirit, a person of great mental intellect, a person of brute force, a healer, or a leader. Your faculties are the functions, aspects and projections that give you the abilities.” Yogi Bhajan
(via Ram Anand)

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What (else) Yogi Bhajan said…

Meditation: LA031 19780423 – Ad Nad Kriya – Gupt Gian Shakti the Secret Power of the Knowledge

Yogi Bhajan Los Angeles April 23, 1978

Sit in easy pose with a straight spine.LA031-780423

Hands: Interlock the fingers with the right index finger on top of the left index finger and the thumbs joined and stretched back so that they point straight up. Hold the hand position in front of the chest between the solar plexus and the heart. The heels of the hands are joined.
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When you want to be successful and very convincing…

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“When you want to be successful and very convincing, just feel truth in your heart. Be sure. Be confident. Feel the truth in your heart, then speak that truth from the heart. Don’t try to run it around or manipulate it with your brain or head.” Yogi Bhajan

Meditation

What (else) Yogi Bhajan said

via Ram Anand

Meditation: NM0365-20001024-On Communication II

Yogi Bhajan – On Communication II – Effective Communication October 24th, 2000 – Espanola, NM, USA #NM0365

Meditation – Eliminate Inner Conflict.

Sit straight in a cross-legged position. Interlock the fingers in Venus Lock (with the thumbs interlocked and the hands forming a cupped position) in front of the solar plexus. Eyes are closed. Chant, listen and understand the mantra Humee Hum Brahm Hum by Nirinjan Kaur.
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Infinity in our projection…

SSSYWa“Your common observations and expressions are not realities, and Infinity itself cannot be spoken. This is the normal situation. And there are so many Infinities in our experience. God is Infinity. Love is Infinity. Commitment is Infinity. In every facet of our life we have the potential for the Infinity of our projection. Projecting with Infinity in our speech is the base of our committed language.” –Yogi Bhajan

Meditation

What else Yogi Bhajan said

via Ram Anand

Passages from the Bible – Isaiah 10

The Reverend William Barber II has been working with Sister Simone and others, preaching to rehabilitate  spiritual consciousness in America, which has been compromised by materialistic interests and co-opted by politics.  See his sermon on Isaiah 10 at the DNC July 28, 2016:RevWilliamBarberII

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Rev William Barber II

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Isaiah 10

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It is Truly Genius…

Mezzanine_389.jpg.crop.456x256Stephen Hawking’s Machine of Life, part of the Genius Series on PBS.  The question of life and its origins is one of the most closely examined issues in history. Are we alone in the universe? How likely is it that life exists anywhere, or at all? How is it explained?  What is the prime motivation for life to exist?  How does simple life evolve into more complex life forms? What is the relationship between the physical phenomenon of life and consciousness, e.g., God?

Stephen Hawking’s treatment of this subject is clear, precise and accessible to non-scientists.  It stimulates thought on levels of consciousness that transcend the physical experience and scientific scrutiny.  It exposes the patterns and tendencies of nature that produce, sustain and evolve life.

The treatment is described mainly in terms of experiments performed by innocent participants who do not know ahead of time what’s going on, but who discover along with us some simple and profound truths.

A fair conclusion to be drawn from the experiments is that their is a strong tendency for life to form when conditions are favorable.  Only the right ingredients,  some range of temperate climate, however localized, and some form of activation energy are enough to allow life to form.  The blueprint is in the ingredients themselves, and not a preconfigured process that operates on them.  Once organic molecules are formed from elements, and then animo acids and proteins, a unique DNA configuration may become organized and begin producing life.  The “machine” is in the ingredients themselves, which possess the chemical, physical and energetic tendencies for the formation life, and is not an external agent operating on those ingredients.

Another experiment illustrates how life evolves into more complex forms by virtue of the suitablility of some life forms to survive long enough to propagate: survival of the fittest.

Seeing this reminds me of Ek Ong Kar. “One God, One Creation”.  This model of cosmology and theology has the Creator of all Creation remaining within and inextricably part of creation in its most subtle levels of matter, energy and consciousness.  The macroscopic physical being is fundamentally comprised of tissues, cells, DNA, proteins, amino acids, organic molecules, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen and other trace elements and the tendency in consciousness to exist and to keep on reinventing and replicating itself using semi-undifferentiated energy that is absorbed from the environment. What created the universe continues to recreate the universe and its life forms.

Stephen Hawking’s Machine of Life on PBS

Meditation & Sat Nam Rasayan Healing Workshop – Shunnya Centre 2016-05-29 – Healing with Elements Fire & Air

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On May 29 we held a Meditation and Sat Nam Rasayan Healing Workshop at Shunnya Centre. We practiced “Healing with the Elements: Fire and Air”.  Our goal was to include and merge elements with the healing space in order to allow them to affect the healing in ways that are specific to the elements.

To balance elements in an important way and to prepare for the healing exercises we performed some mediations.
Increase the Flow of Earth Within You
LA093-Meditation on the pranic Energy-The Earth Element Balanced by Ether

LA051-Tune the Vagus Nerve to Cosmic Consciousness

In the healing exercises, first we included the fire element to stimulate a motivation for change.  Fire can transmute consciousness into a completely different form. We practiced recognizing the sensation of including fire in the healing space.

We followed that by including the air element. Air has an effect of promoting a path for expansion.  What the fire produced as changed consciousness, the air gave it a tangible form for development and expansion.

Using elements is one means of modifying tendencies in a rather general way.  We can combine them and give balance to the elements that are present in a system.  As with all healing, the use of elements can alter one’s path and destiny.

Another means of producing a roughly similar effect can be found in a meditation that we performed afterwards
NM0413 – Intuition and the Strength of Excellence.
This meditation uses components of mudra in an intimate configuration to produce change (Saturn) and expansion (Jupiter) in a similar way.

Later in the evening we followed up with these meditations:

LA741-Dance of Shiva
LA051-Tune the Vagus Nerve to Cosmic Consciousness
LA831-Be Intuitive
Another meditation that we did not have time for, but I recommended:
KYB117-Achieve an Experience of God


Here are some links to audio recordings of other workshops that we held in Ottawa:
Hari Nam Singh Ottawa Workshops

Here are some links to archives of workshops on healing with the elements

Your soul…

SSSYWa“You have not learned how to depend on the unseen and unlimited within you. Your soul has a fundamental property that when aligned with your mind gives you impact, intelligence, and effectiveness. Its fundamental property is to be saibhang ~ a self-illumined, aware, and radiant identity of God. It is not subject to anything.

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