SIP Jam :: 4 | Unity in Diversity - Looking for the One

24.04.2012 | 21.00 GMT | Skype | 7


This session was particularly challenging as participants were asked to go deep into the quotes through the process of questions. The process of the SIP Jam 5 was to read the quotes and select one that called out to them. Participants were then asked to identify a sentence from their selected quote and create a question from what was said in that sentence. They were then asked to find an answer from the question. They went on to answer the question they asked themselves another 2 times and watch how their understanding of the question and answer transformed.

The conversation then moved on to understand how going deeper through the process of inquiry can enable us to deepen our understanding our own purpose and the purpose of our work.

Quotations

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man does not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself... All things are connected.
(Attributed to Chief Seattle of the Duwamish Tribe)

To obtain spirituality is to realise that the whole universe is one symphony; in this every individual is one note, and his happiness lies in becoming perfectly attuned to the harmony of the universe.
(Hazrat Inayat Khan, Sufi writer and musician)

Everything you see has its roots in an unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wondrous sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade. But do not be disheartened, the Source they come from is eternal - growing, branching out, giving new life and new joy.
(Rumi, A Garden Beyond Paradise)

A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal closeness and affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature.
(Albert Einstein)

He who sees himself in all beings and all beings in himself knows no sorrow.
(Isha Upanishad)

SIP Jam 3 :: Unity in Diversity

26.03.2012 | 21.00 GMT | Skype | 0

There were no participants for SIP Jam 3

SIP Jam 2 :: Nature; within & around

29.02.2012 | 21.00 GMT | Skype | 9

:: Summary of the call

At the end of the health awareness month, SIP Jam 2 sought to enable participants to reflect on their relationship with nature, within & around.

The photos that participants submitted along with their caption on “how connected are you to the natural environment in your daily life?” are available online

Participants started by talking about their photo, the context and the reason behind which they took the photo.

The questions that were then openly discussed were

1. How does the nature around you influence you?
2. How do you influence the nature?
3. How does nature help you understand yourself?

SIP Jam :: 24.01.2012 | 21.00 GMT | Skype | 10

:: Summary of the call

21.00 :: Participants join. Asked to read a short narrative from J.Krishnamurti, Commentaries on Living - 2nd series

It was a calm evening, but many white sails were on the lake. In the far distance a snow-covered peak hung as though suspended from the skies. The evening breeze from the north-east was not yet blowing, but there were ripples on the water towards the north and more boats were putting out. The water was very blue and the skies were very clear. It was a wide lake, but on sunny days the towns could be seen on the other side. In this little bay, secluded and forgotten, it was very peaceful; there were no tourists, and the steamboat that went round the lake never came here. Nearby was a village of fishermen; and as the weather promised to be clear, there would be small boats, with lanterns, fishing late into the night. In the enchantment of evening they were preparing their nets and their boats. The valleys were in deep shadow, but the mountains still held the sun.