INAUGURATION DAY: TURN OFF THE TV AND TUNE INTO THE HEART WITH JAI BHAKTI™

In response to the level of anxiety friends and family members are experiencing during the transition from President Obama to our new President-Elect, I invite you to turn off your TV today and Tune into the bandwidth of your Heart.

I invite you to join me for meditation and prayer starting at noon (EST). This is a global event: folks from all over the world have responded to my plea to send out peace and love during these divisive times. I will be holding the place of the Heart for us.  

You can find the free meditation instructions I posted on JAI BHAKTI™ back in 2005 here:

In response to the level of anxiety friends and family members are experiencing during the transition from President Obama to our new President-Elect, I invite you to turn off your TV today and Tune into the bandwidth of your Heart.

I invite you to join me for meditation and prayer starting at noon (EST). This is a global event: folks from all over the world have responded to my plea to send out peace and love during these divisive times. I will be holding the place of the Heart for us.  

You can find the free meditation instructions I posted on JAI BHAKTI™ back in 2005 by clicking here .

Let us not be wary.  Let us share the peace and love of our Hearts on this day and always. It's what the world needs now. 

Whether you meditate, pray, chant/sing, or study sacred yogic texts ("unity) for one minute or for hours today, every second of peacefull Heart you send out will have a profound affect on yourself and the world. 

Namo Namah, 

Bhakti

(Donna Lynn Brophy)

Thank you to everyone on Facebook, and Twitter (especially Betty Buckley) for sharing this JAI BHAKTI™ offering with your Friends and Followers.

2017 NEW YEAR'S PRAYER...

Let us not focus on

what we hate,

Let us focus on

what we Love. 

Amen. 

BHAKTI'S TONGLEN PRACTICE: How to Deal With the Suffering and Injustices of the World (JAI BHAKTI™ BLOG)

BECOMING DEPRESSED OVER THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS HELPS NO ONE.
YOU CAN AFFECT A POSITIVE CHANGE!

Two weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit, I had emergency surgery to reconstruct my cervical spine. This meant that I was unable to volunteer, which I would have done had I not been laid up. Watching so many people suffer--and incensed as the US Government sat idly by with its bureaucratic thumbs up its bureaucratic arse-- left me in a state of despair. I spent my entire life helping others, and now I was stuck immobile on my parents' couch, watching the horror unfold on TV, unable to lift a finger to help. The physical pain I was experiencing, and the toll the nerve damage was taking on my physical body, meant nothing to me: My heart was breaking.


I expressed my dilemma with my dear friend, Meditation Master Sally Kempton:

"I feel useless, Sallyji! Why would I be rendered unable to help when so many people are suffering? I want so much to go down south to help. These people are suffering and I can't do a thing to help them."



I already knew that my meditation practice--everyone's meditation practice--effects a positive change in the world, but I could not reconcile why I would be given the capacity to give so much, and then not be able to help when so many thousands of people were in dire need of assistance.



Sally taught me the Buddhist practice called Tonglen, as taught to her by Pema Chödron. You can find Pema's Tonglen instructions in many of her fabulous books.



I tweaked the practice to better suit my situation. What remains hardly resembles Tonglen as it was taught to me, but the intention is the same, therefore I continue to call this practice Tonglen. Being virtually bedridden for the past nine years, I use this practice when I begin to feel discouraged that I am not able to be out in the world teaching, doing charity work, sharing my love of life with others, etc. When I feel my own suffering is in vain, I offer this practice to the world:



"May my suffering be enough for this world

so that no one else may have to suffer.

May my pain be enough for the world

So no one else may have to experience pain

May my level of physical discomfort be enough for this world

So that no one else may have to suffer this level of physical discomfort.

May my offering be enough

So that others may live in peace and good health.

Let my suffering be enough for this world.



May every being know

that he or she is being upheld by Grace.

Thank you for blessing me with this Life,

With this Grace,

With this Love.

I offer my life to Your service,

To the service of All.

May it be so.

And so it is."*



If you are feeling overwhelmed by the injustice and suffering in the world, I ask that you look deeply into these feelings. Label them ("I feel sad." "I feel helpless." "I feel scared." etc.), contemplate the feelings, and then create your own Tonglen based practice.



You will learn that, through your meditation and spiritual practices, you are effecting a positive change in this world. Moreover, through going deep in meditation (Raja Yoga), and by studying the Vedas (Jnana Yoga), the reality of existence reveals itself to you. You realize we are all exactly where we are meant to be at any given time. We are all playing roles: we have played them all before, and will continue to do so until Self Realization, and the cessation of the cycle of birth and death.



Tonglen is all about Love and Devotion (Bhakti Yoga) to the One who has become the many.



Love and All Great Blessings to You All


As my very own Self,

Bhakti






*©2005 DL Bhakti Brophy
 ©2014 DL Bhakti Brophy
 All Rights Reserved

Z-DAY: MARCH 15, 2008

http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

I just received a link to this movie. It is so absolutely thought provoking--and many of the ideas in it are relative to the way I think (i.e. that TV and the entire entertainment industry is dumbing down America; and that the government--through bogus programs like No Child Left Behind-- are creating an environment in the classroom where teachers are forced to teach to the test and not actually teach to the individual students, thus cheating children of a good education). I can't actually say that the information contained in the film is shocking; some of it I had already heard and/or researched myself.

I do not profess to know or even believe that everything contained in this movie is true, yet I do think it is, as stated above, thought provoking and the ideas contained within are certainly in our best interest to investigate further. For example, I was in Manhattan on 911 and I photographed WTC Building 7 as it fell. I also photographed many other buildings around the Twin Towers that were already half-way demolished by the impact of the debris from the falling Twin Towers. It's not hard to understand how a lowrise building like Building 7 would simply collapse in on itself. It's not like this type of building is going to fall over on it's side; according to physics, that would be impossible. Also, the man who designed the Twin Towers designed them so that if they ever fell that they would fall down in the exact manner that they did on 911. He did this to ensure that the Towers would never 'fall over'. The floors fell one-on-top-of-another just like they were designed to do. I'm not sold on the 911 Conspiracy Theory. However, I absolutely do believe that that 911 was used by the W. Bush administration as an excuse to start a war that they had already planned on waging.

The second example I will use to show that I don't believe everything in the ZEITGEIST movie is that Jesus's 'real' birthday was not December 25; that is merely the date that Christians celebrate His birth. This shoots down the astrological theories put forth in the first section of the movie. If you visit the Zeitgeistmovie website you will find that the film maker addressed this issue in the 'Clarification' section of the movie's website.

The part about the U.S. Federal Reserve did prick up my ears--and that is the part that makes the most sense to me and that I feel every American should look into for him or herself.)

The film is broken into three sections. I ask that you please at least watch the part about the Federal Reserve and the international bankers. You can fast-forward to the part that illustrates how the government is forcing the middle and lower classes into monetary dire straits--via the U.S. Federal Reserve controlling the value of the dollar bill and the amount of money in circulation at any given time-- by forwarding the arrow to around 1:12:00.

You can read more about the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 by CLICKING HERE.

It truly is time for all spiritual leaders and Knowers of the Truth to step forward and stop the rich and powerful warmongers and international bankers from creating a world of unbelievable poverty for the majority of human beings living on this great planet.

It is the wish of these money hungry war mongers to create ONE GOVERNMENT on the entire planet. In other words: we will be the peasants and 'they' will rule US. (I will publish information about this subject in my next post.)

If you not only believe, but you KNOW that love is more powerful than fear--it's time to step up to the plate and make your voice be heard.

Pray for everyone, everywhere to know the peace, love, and joy of the Heart.
Pray that everyone, everywhere may know good health.
Pray that everyone, everywhere has enough food to eat, water to drink, and a safe place to live.
Pray that the GOOD people of this great earth come together and demand a true change in this world.
DEMAND THAT THE WORLD BE GOVERNED NOT BY FEAR, BUT BY LOVE.

Amen.

Love to all of you,
Bhakti

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