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12.02.11
“A világban és életünkben levő belső nyugalom hatásának feltárása” címmel lelkigyakorlatot rendeztek 2011. július 27-31 között Oxfordban (Anglia).
18 országból 35 fő gyűlt össze a buddhista, keresztény, hindu, zsidó és muszlim vallásokból …
35 people from 18 countries from Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim faiths gathered for The Inner Voice, a retreat to explore the impact of inner stillness in our lives and in the world.
The retreat was chaired by Revd Marcus Braybrooke, President of the World Congress of Faiths and Sister Jayanti, European Director of the Brahma Kumaris. Participants included The Archbishop of Capetown, Dadi Janki (Brahma Kumaris), Swami Agnivesh (National Integration Council of India), Yehuda Stolov (Interfaith Encounter Association, Israel) and many others working for social betterment in their countries.
The retreat took participants into an ever deepening journey of listening to the inner self, listening to the Divine and listening to the voice of humanity.
There were contributions from different faith perspectives; a Canon of the Episcopal Church in the US asked which of the many voices of the self do I listen to? The voice that wants recognition, the voice that is afraid, the voice that comes from fear of death or the voice of desires? These voices drown the still small voice within, the voice of God. The God who whispers to me and reminds me is the God of forgiveness and abundance.
A prominent Swami from India spoke of his realization that God is not in the idols but in the universe and in the face of love, compassion, truth and justice. As a great social activist he spoke of the need for a spiritual model of development. “Spirituality is a movement; if not then it degenerates into a monument!”
A professor of comparative religion from the UK spoke of the expansiveness of the presence of God and the deep strength needed to trust in life – life is a process greater than all of us. The head of an interfaith organization in Israel spoke of how we are banging our head against a wall trying to find God and yet we do not know how to use the door to go inside. If I see a relationship that is not based on love then it is my duty to make it better.
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A prominent church leader from South Africa spoke of how God is not finished with us. God is continuing to reveal himself. He questioned, ‘how do I intervene without revenge?’ There is a God who belongs to all of us and to whom we all belong. A Won Buddhist leader from South Korea (now living in the US) spoke of nourishing our divine nature and the transformative power of silence. “The clouds come and go but the sky never changes.”
A Rabbi, who has worked all his life for peace, spoke of how when we can include everyone with an inner source of dignity, then together we constitute the image of God. “It is often difficult to live with God but even more difficult to live without God.”
Dadi Janki shared that to listen to my inner voice; the heart that has been hurt has to heal. She spoke of the importance of patience, tolerance and contentment. The ability to tolerate brings a sense of belonging. God is truth, God is love. The purpose of all of us coming together is to know what truth is and to serve others. “Make power into truth and truth into power.”
There were stories of inspiration from a Catholic Father from Brazil who has turned around the lives of thousands of street children in Sao Paulo, of an analyst who works at the International Criminal Court at The Hague on the evidence for war crimes and of a women who worked for many years at the Anne Frank House of Amsterdam when it was first opened to the public.
As well as an evening concert at the Retreat Centre, the group was also hosted by Christ Church Cathedral and College, Oxford University.
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