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Meditation helps us to learn how to harness the ordinary
power of our minds.
Meditation encompasses a wide variety of spiritual practices
which emphasize mental activity or quiescence. It usually involves turning our attention inward to the mind itself. Many practice
meditation in order to achieve eternal peace, while others do it in order to become healthier and friendlier.
Most
traditions of meditation address the integration of mind, body, and spirit. Meditation is incomplete if it doesn't lead to
positive changes in one's daily life and attitudes the integration of spiritual practice with family life, work, and all other
activities.
However, Spirituality is more of a way of living that emphasises
a constant awareness of the spiritual dimension of nature, with acknowledgement of its contractual relationship between the
material world and the spiritual. Spirituality gives one an inner sense of something greater than oneself. It is recognition
of an existence that transcends one's immediate circumstances.
What is Spirituality?
Spirituality in a broad sense is a concern with matters of
the spirit. It is a wide term with many available readings. It may include belief in supernatural powers, as in religion,
but the emphasis is on personal experience. Usually a persons own private beliefs in regard to nature or ethical matters.
Spiritualities are often viewed as sensitivity or attachment to religious values or to things of the spirit as opposed to
material or worldly interests.
Activities associated with spirituality are those which renew,
lift up, comfort, heal and inspire those with whom we interact as well as ourselves. Spirituality provide a sense of meaning
and purpose, a sense of self and 'that which is greater than self'. It is also practices such as meditation and 'bonding rituals'
which support such identity and relationship. Religion represents only a minor subset of the overall themes of spirituality
and spiritual practices. However, religion may in some cases hinder rather than assist in spiritual development, especially
in the workplace as expressed in organisations in issues such as 'belonging' (identification with).
Spirituality in Education
Education should be esoteric in nature. It should provide
a "drawing out" of the kind of knowledge that is inseparable from one's own being. Education should include inner education
that answers the most simple yet fundamental questions that are asked by every child. In short it should satisfy the mystery
of being alive. Education should bring us to the realisation that the spiritual governs and controls the material everywhere.
We should come to realize that all of earthly existence is therefore impregnated with meaning, value and the possibility.
Bible / Word Study
Comparative religion
Mindfulness, heart's desire
The Parthenon Code
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