Eiheiji - Inside Dogen's Zen Monastery

Eiheiji is a world-famous Zen monastery located in the mountains 200 kilometers northeast of Kyoto. As the temple's founder Dogen prescribed, the core practice is zazen: simply sitting to calm the mind and examine one's self. Most of the 150 monks are in their 20's. They live at the temple, devoting themselves to uninterrupted Zen practice. With unprecedented access inside this remarkable temple, where Dogen's teachings have been practiced unchanged for over 770 years, the program follows the monks' lives over the course of 6 months.

 

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/special/episode/201803312310/

 

 

Lífspekifélagið um helgina - Framtíð mannsins og kundalini

 

23. mars föstudagur kl. 20:00

Gunnlaugur Guðmundsson: 
Maðurinn og framtíð hans í heiminum.

 

 

24. mars laugardagaur kl. 15:00

Leifur H Leifsson stýrir hugleiðingu og spjallar um 
Kundalinigerðir mannsins.

Lífspekifélagið - Vísindablekkingin og fræðslubálkur Sigvalda

 

16. mars föstudagur kl. 20:00

Jón Gretar Hafsteinsson: Vísindablekkingin. Þýðandinn segir frá 
þessari merku bók eftir vísindamanninn Rupert Sheldrake.

 

17. mars laugardagur kl. 15:00

Birgir Bjarnason með leiðbeiningu í hugleiðingu

og efni úr fræðslubálki Sigvalda Hjálmarssonar.

 

 

Hugleiðsla í Lífspekifélaginu í kvöld, mánudaginn 12. mars

Það er hugleiðsla hvert mánudagskvöld í húsi Lífspekifélagsins kl. 19. Haraldur Erlendsson leiðbeinir iðkendun í Sri Vidya hugleiðsluhefðinni en Sri Vidya er forn tantrahefð frá Indlandi. 

 

http://lifspekifelagid.is/

Lífspekifélagið um helgina - Hamingjurannsóknir og súfismi

 

9. mars föstudagur kl. 20.00

Halldór Nikulás Lárusson, mannfræðingur: Súfismi, hin mystíska vídd íslam. Þann 24. nóvember 2017 voru 
305 súfistar drepnir í sprengjuárás á al-Rawda moskuna í Bir al-Abed á Sínaískaga, þrátt fyrir pólitískt hlutleysi þeirra 
og friðarboðskap. Súfista er að finna bæði innan súnní- og shíahefðar íslam, en súfismi er þó óhefðbundin íslömsk 
trúarhreyfing af allt öðrum toga. Hún kom snemma fram á sjónarsviðið í íslam og undir lok 9. aldar höfðu myndast hópar sem lögðu áherslu á Veginn (Tariqah), sem hægt var að feta til uppljómunar og sameiningar við hinn eina veruleika, sjálfan Guð. Hreyfingin var oft á tíðum fordæmd af hinum hefð-bundnu trúarleiðtogum rétttrúnaðar íslam og fylgjendur hennar jafnvel líflátnir fyrir villutrú. Ekki margir Vesturlandabúar vita um líf og trú súfistanna, en í erindinu verður fjallað um mystík og lífsviðhorf þessa einstaka trúarhóps.

10. mars laugardagur kl. 15.00

Kristinn Ágúst Friðfinnsson: Hamingjurannsóknir.

 

 

Lífspekifélagið um helgina - Súfismi og saga alls

 

2. mars föstudagur kl. 20.00

Halldór Nikulás Lárusson, mannfræðingur: Súfismi, hin mystíska vídd íslam. Þann 24. nóvember 2017 voru 
305 súfistar drepnir í sprengjuárás á al-Rawda moskuna í Bir al-Abed á Sínaískaga, þrátt fyrir pólitískt hlutleysi þeirra 
og friðarboðskap. Súfista er að finna bæði innan súnní- og shíahefðar íslam, en súfismi er þó óhefðbundin íslömsk 
trúarhreyfing af allt öðrum toga. Hún kom snemma fram á sjónarsviðið í íslam og undir lok 9. aldar höfðu myndast hópar sem lögðu áherslu á Veginn (Tariqah), sem hægt var að feta til uppljómunar og sameiningar við hinn eina veruleika, sjálfan Guð. Hreyfingin var oft á tíðum fordæmd af hinum hefð-bundnu trúarleiðtogum rétttrúnaðar íslam og fylgjendur hennar jafnvel líflátnir fyrir villutrú. Ekki margir Vesturlandabúar vita um líf og trú súfistanna, en í erindinu verður fjallað um mystík og lífsviðhorf þessa einstaka trúarhóps.

3. mars laugardagaur kl. 15.00

Kristinn Ágúst Friðfinnsson: Saga alls.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion

 

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism. 

Albert Einstein

 

A letter from Albert Einstein to his daughter: about The Universal Force which is LOVE

 

In the late 1980s, Lieserl, the daughter of the famous genius, donated 1,400 letters, written by Einstein, to the Hebrew University, with orders not to publish their contents until two decades after his death. This is one of them, for Lieserl Einstein. 

 

…”When I proposed the theory of relativity, very few understood me, and what I will reveal now to transmit to mankind will also collide with the misunderstanding and prejudice in the world.
I ask you to guard the letters as long as necessary, years, decades, until society is advanced enough to accept what I will explain below.
There is an extremely powerful force that, so far, science has not found a formal explanation to. It is a force that includes and governs all others, and is even behind any phenomenon operating in the universe and has not yet been identified by us.

This universal force is LOVE.
When scientists looked for a unified theory of the universe they forgot the most powerful unseen force.

Love is Light, that enlightens those who give and receive it.
Love is gravity, because it makes some people feel attracted to others.

Love is power, because it multiplies the best we have, and allows humanity not to be extinguished in their blind selfishness. Love unfolds and reveals.

For love we live and die.
Love is God and God is Love.

This force explains everything and gives meaning to life. This is the variable that we have ignored for too long, maybe because we are afraid of love because it is the only energy in the universe that man has not learned to drive at will.

To give visibility to love, I made a simple substitution in my most famous equation.

If instead of E = mc2, we accept that the energy to heal the world can be obtained through love multiplied by the speed of light squared, we arrive at the conclusion that love is the most powerful force there is, because it has no limits.
After the failure of humanity in the use and control of the other forces of the universe that have turned against us, it is urgent that we nourish ourselves with another kind of energy…

If we want our species to survive, if we are to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and every sentient being that inhabits it, love is the one and only answer.
Perhaps we are not yet ready to make a bomb of love, a device powerful enough to entirely destroy the hate, selfishness and greed that devastate the planet.

However, each individual carries within them a small but powerful generator of love whose energy is waiting to be released.
When we learn to give and receive this universal energy, dear Lieserl, we will have affirmed that love conquers all, is able to transcend everything and anything, because love is the quintessence of life.

I deeply regret not having been able to express what is in my heart, which has quietly beaten for you all my life. Maybe it’s too late to apologize, but as time is relative, I need to tell you that I love you and thanks to you I have reached the ultimate answer! “.

 

Your father Albert Einstein

 

Ooooooommmmm

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