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Wellbeing in Peterborough
Brahma Kumaris in Peterborough held their second Wellbeing Fair this year at the Friends Meeting House in September - with the help of friends from Leicester, Loughborough, Derby, Milton Keynes, Cambridge, Coventry and the Global Retreat Centre. There were talks and conversations with Neville Hodgkinson and others, meditations, live music, movement sessions, spiritual games such as Spiritual Snakes & Ladders and The Emergency Optimist, a book/gift stall and a stand with information about environmental issues and our eco initiatives. Response was very warm. One visitor said: "It confirms and supports the experiences and thoughts I have had for a long time - offering a fresh perspective. I like the personal experiences and stories shared to illustrate this. It was very useful."
Faiths in Harmony at Kings College Chapel
Organised by Unity in Diversity, the Humanity in Harmony interfaith concert took place in September at King’s College Chapel on the Strand in Central London. The event brought together over 100 attendees and performers across eight faith traditions - Zoroastrian, Brahma Kumaris, Sikh, Pagan, Bahá’í, Buddhist, Hindu and Church of Scientology - to celebrate diversity, respect and shared humanity in cultural expression. Sangeetha and Kanishaa of the Brahma Kumaris performed a Bharatanatyam dance on the theme 'Visions for a Better World'.
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A free mind is one that is open to everything and attached to nothing. Most people spend much of their time looking for reasons to take offence. An open mind is never offended because it is free of any attachments.
It is never the self that is offended; it is always the illusion of the self that is affected by insult! If you can really understand this concept, deeply grasp its truth, and live it each day, then pain will be no more.
Next time you ‘feel’ offended, look closely within yourself at yourself and ask yourself, ‘What was offended?’ If you remain aware, you will see that it was only an image of yourself to which you had become attached, and that image did not resonate with the image contained in the insult. If you weren’t attached to the wrong image of yourself, you wouldn’t take offence. You would then remain free and therefore happy.
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