Initiated in 2009 by Israeli President Shimon Peres, Facing Tomorrow is a global conference that aims to the betterment of tomorrow for Israel, the Jewish people and the world at large.
Leading economic, political, intellectual, and technological experts from Israel and around the world gathered in Jerusalem last week to deliver messages of hope; our own’s Sri Sri Ravi Shankar founder of The Art of Living Foundation, along with other panelists delivered messages to the world at the 2009 Israeli Presidential Conference:
Pluralism and embracing people of all cultures should be part of our education. When an individual thinks that he belongs to this religion or that religion and gets closed up and doesn’t allow others to be part of his life. That’s when fanaticism begins.
Read the rest of the transcript here or watch the video on YouTube
At the same occassion, Sri Sri also spoke to Israeli’s TV Personality, Dan Shilon. Responding to Shilon’s question about stopping the world for an hour for 10 days, Sri Sri said:
Stopping our mind, stopping the racing mind. It is always thinking about the past or it is always thinking about the future. We are angry about the past or anxious about the future. To take a fresh look at the world, the situation, you need to wake up and see, – as Mahatma Gandhi used to say never look back. He would say lets see what we should do now and for the future. That gives a lot of energy, encouragement, enthusiasm, and lifts you up from the ashes even though there are ashes around you.
Read the rest of the interview here
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By popular request we are introducing a new 3-day Part 1 course starting this week.
We are not replacing the longer 6-day, 3-hour daily format, the new 3-day, 4-hour daily workshop is specifically designed for people with busy working schedule like most of the community member in Jakarta are facing today.
With this new format, the instructors are challenged to effectively carry out the course on the same amount of knowledge with a shorter period of time. “This requires more commitment from the participants in order to achieve the course’s target” shares Jeffrey Ng, one of the many brilliant Art of Living instructors in Jakarta. The new course format is going to be carried out nationwide, as well as around the world.
Call our center or email info@artofliving.or.id to learn more about the Part 1 course. You can also check out the calendar for up-to-date schedules on courses near you.
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Ego appears when:
1. We don’t get attention.
2. We seem to be losing attention.
3. We get attention.
Ego causes heaviness, discomfort. It doesn’t let love flow.
Ego can be transcended by knowing the Truth; by enquiring “Who am I?”
Often, your attitude towards one who has ego is of contempt or jealousy, but rather you should have compassion, or even pity.
There is also a positive aspect of ego. It drives one to do some work. A person will do a job either out of compassion or out of ego. Most of the work in the society is by boosting the ego. But with joy, work is done out of love.
Ego is separateness; non-belongingness. It is wanting to prove and to possess and when you wake up and see, that there is nothing to be proved and nothing to be possessed; ego begin to dissolve and love will flow.
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