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Brave Persians are meeting in Duesseldorf train station
in front of the library at 1pm January 8th 2005, to walk
together direction home Iran.
This March is organized by Mr. Gholi poor who could be
reached at: 0211 7270 261
I would like to invite all dear participants to make a queue
in front of the European parliament Jan 12th and any
other day that any one from the Iran hostagetakers group
comes to eat European brain like Zah
aak did, if not worse.
What we learned from our neigbours, now it is time to
practice it.
We learned not to kill baby girls, not that we were doing it
ourselves, but, they need us to remind them and that is
my proposed educational line.
Ref: Ghoraan Soreh ye Takveer Aaye ye nohom that says:
Fabe aye zanben ghotelat?
For what crime you kill baby girls?
They have at least a deficiency in hearing and seeing the
light of knowledge our children display, and see them
as burning glow, while these young people of Iran who
heard me immediately as soon as I opened my heart
to start, displayed pure love and life and new ideas, they
are expected to be soundless, lifeless, or they will
torture them to death. Why? Because they see themself
the victors in an unfair battle.
Why unfair? Because they don't announce readiness
for debate and attack without warning , kill the children
rape and kill girls and destroy and terminate without
reasoning.
Dear Googoosh, Welcome to Minuvash Solar Film Festival
dedicated to you.
I would love to work with you.
Any time, Anywhere You like, please let me know.
tel: +31-20-418 5855
Excerpt from Nader Khalili interview for rebuilding Bam:
Mr Khalili wants a research centre set up to deal not only
with Bam, but also with all the other mud-brick villages in
Iran.
"This centre should be separate from the government; an
international, open forum that is based on integrating
traditional and modern technology", he said.
Dear Nader Welcome to Minuvash Solar Film Festival.
I would love to work with you.
Any time Anywhere, give me a call at:
0031-20-418 5855
Shahriar Shariari
Do be do be do ......
Assuming the universe is Unlimited, Abundant, and Benevolent, the
following are the only logical conclusions that may be reached:
Regardless of whether the universe is self-organizing or not, no matter
whether God is the mind of the universe or its detached creator, being
is the correct response and the highest state of consciousness.
Without any necessity to think and work hard to create, without any
need to go out of our way to exert energy to bring about results, we
can simply tune in. Discover what the universe is asking us to
concentrate on. Listen to and feel the inner impulses, understand our
inner desires. Then simply follow those impulses, intuitions, and
natural directions.
If the universe is benevolent, it would not desire anything but our best
happiness. It would have given us the means of understanding our best
good. It would have created a path of least waste, a graceful path to
our highest good. And the universe has.
At our highest level of consciousness, we simply need to be. To listen
to our inner selves, and to follow the directions that we are given by
the universe through our inner receiver. And then simply act or do
accordingly. More often than not the graceful path will simply appear.
All we need to do is to be aware and open to its guidance and follow
the path.
If the universe is abundant, then it provides us with abundance, since
a benevolent universe wishes its highest for everyone. The universe
will simply put us on a path of natural growth into abundance. With
this assumption, our natural state of being is to enjoy the abundance of
the universe. And all we need to do is to be, and follow the guidance
of the universe, without fear, and with complete trust.
And finally if the universe is unlimited, it would not only provide us
with the abundance of what the
re is, but also with what there could
be. Since it is unlimited, what there could be is anything that can be
conceived of. So all we need to do is to be, to open up to our inner
guidance, to understand our true desires, regardless of whether they
exist in material form or not, and to follow the path that is presented
to us by the universe.
Would a benevolent, abundant and unlimited universe wish us
anything else? Would it ask us for exertion of unnecessary energy?
Would it drive us down the path of un-beauty, disgrace, and waste?
This is what the masters and sages of the past meant by asking us to
devote our lives to the service of the almighty, and know that our
every wish and desire will be provided for, before we can even think
of them, and more.......
© Shahriar Shahriari
February 1996
Vancouver Canada
Money is not neutral
A patch of dry soil, by itself is lifeless. It is stagnant and dead. Every
now and again, a creature may walk over it or crawl through it, but the
soil patch sustains no life.
That is until we add water to it. If we now tend to this patch of soil
simply by adding water to it, given some time, various plants will
sprout and grow from it. There is no need to do anything. The
vegetation will eventually cover the entire patch of soil easily and
effortlessly.
Can we say water is neutral? If we consider life to be good, then we
must consider water to also be good. Water is not neutral. It sustains
life. Whether it is in the form of the oceans, clouds, streams and
rivers, or underground deposits.
Water in and of itself has the tendency to effortlessly propagate and
sustain life.
Now let us say that we just keep the soil flooded with stagnant water.
The water is not allowed to move, flow or even evaporate. Although
initially we will see various life forms grow within this patch of soil,
eventually the soil will go dead again.
But it takes effort to keep water stagnant. So the eventual death that is
resulted from flooding by water is a result of the conscious effort to
imprison and seal water in a confined volume.
The essential quality of water in its interdependent relationship with
the other three elements of nature is its tendency to flow. Water is an
element in nature which creates and sustains balance.
In its oceanic form it sustains a substantial proportion of life on the
planet. In cloud form it transports the life giving element to different
parts of land. As streams and rivers, it cuts and erodes and renews the
form, features and function of the soil. In permeating the soil and
storing itself in the pores of the grains of sand and pebbles and cracks
of rocks, it makes itself available to the vegetation for growth. In its
flowing and stationary underground reservoirs and overground lakes
and streams, it makes itself available for the various species of the
animal kingdom.
Water is constantly flowing, and it is by its flow that it sustains life.
Whether it is the waves of the ocean dissolving oxygen for the
creatures within it, or the rain bearing clouds carrying it around the
planet, or the flowing streams, or even the evaporating reservoirs,
water is constantly flowing, and it is effortlessly life giving.
Seal it and imprison it, accumulate it and stop its flow, and it becomes
deadly. Stagnation is death, and it takes effort.
Money or wealth is also very similar to water. In and of itself, it is an
expression of the loving, creative and sustaining energy of nature. It is
good. Block it, accumulate it, seal it, imprison it, and stop its flow,
and it becomes draining, destructive and even deadly.
On the path to enlightenment, many recognize that it i
s not money but
what it can do which is either good or bad, that money is neutral. I
propose that money is not neutral. It is good. And to use it in the
service of evil is unnatural, takes effort and drains energy.
The effortless, loving, creative and sustaining power of money and
wealth is in its ability to flow. In its potential and tendency to create
and provide by purposefully flowing from one place to another. By
facilitating an easy means of interchanging and exchanging our
creative powers and love as individuals.
Just as water is life giving because of its tendency to flow, money
propagates love, and creates and sustains, also by its tendency to flow.
Wealth and money are good, just as water is good. Let us eliminate
the fallacy of neutrality from our beliefs.
© Shahriar Shahriari,
December 1995
Vancouver Canada
1 + 1 = 3
In this process of our joining, in our combined efforts at co-creation, I
put my quarter share in and you put yours, with complete joy and
ecstasy. And then we waited.
We waited for the joining of the two quarters. We gave all that we
had, but somehow it was not enough. So we just let go and trust the
process. The process that one and one makes three.
And sure enough, the process took over. We watched the new entity
being formed. We watched it grow and evolve. We watched it and
nurtured it and continued to trust the process. But somehow it always
seemed that we needed to do something more. Yet we did not know
what, so we let go and trust the process.
Until the moment of birth and manifestation arrived. With mixed
feelings, with love and fear, with joy and pain we watched the process
evolve into birth. We did not know what else to do, so we let go and
trust the process.
And Lo and behold, the new entity was born. Unique, independent,
and interdependent. It seemed to have a mind of its own; nay, a life of
its own. We were in complete awe of the process.
It seemed that through the process, our two quarters created more than
one half. They created one whole. It seemed that something was
created out of nothing. The hand of Creator was at work. Yet it all
seemed perfectly natural, because that is what synergy is.
The mind of the process creates a whole which is more than the sum
of its parts. That is synergistic co-creation. That is God. Yes, one and
one makes three.
© Shahriar Shahriari
February 1996
Vancouver Canada
The 3 Dimensions of Consciousness
Just as in the physical world so far we have perceived four
dimensions, three spatial and one of time, in the spiritual realm, or the
realm of consciousness we can also perceive three dimensions.
Naturally there may be more in either worlds yet to be perceived and
discovered.
The 3 dimensions in the plane of consciousness are Thought, Faith,
and Love.
Thought is the dimension of creativity. This is what creates physical
and non-physical things. Things such as objects, buildings, software,
stories, visions etc.
While Thought is the `what' of creation, Faith is the `how' of creation.
The quality of Faith differs from that of Thought. Faith is the absolute
knowing of possibilities. While Thought determines what mountains
to move, Faith is what moves mountains. Nothing may be created
without the trust, belief and Faith that it can be created, be it material
or immaterial.
And finally comes Love. Love is the quality of creation. Where
as
Thought is the blueprint of creation, and Faith is the mechanism of
creation, Love is the grace, the essence or the quality of creation.
Love determines the closeness of the creation to perfection.
To use another analogy, Thought determines what is to be written,
Faith is the pen with which it is written, and Love is the handwriting.
Or Thought is the content, Faith is the clarity and contrast of the ink
and paper, and Love is the gracefulness and beauty of the writing.
These are the three orthogonal axes of the spiritual world, the
dimensions of consciousness.
© Shahriar Shahriari
February 1996
Vancouver Canada
Creative Confusion
Chaos raises its ugly head everywhere. Confusion seems to be the
order of the day. Change is the only constant, we are told. Everything
is unstable, and nobody knows what is happening tomorrow.
Naturally we are all worried. Concerned for our jobs and businesses,
for our savings and wealth, we try to take it one day at a time, and
every night, we are grateful for making it through one more day.
But why? Simply because we have been trained to believe that
stability and equilibrium are desirable. That constancy is a sign of
maturity, wisdom and success. But this is not so.
Everywhere we look in nature, we find signs of disequilibrium,
because disequilibrium is what creates a potential, a natural state of
tension which then becomes fertile ground for creation of resolution.
Nature does not say "Oh my God, something is wrong. Things are
changing too fast. I am confused. I am panicking." Nature very calmly
looks the confusion in the eye, and then resolves to proceed with what
it desires to create. And every time without fail, nature creates
something new, which overshadows the old.
During a recent visit to mount St. Helens, I was amazed at the extent
of devastation and destruction that took place. But more amazing than
that was witnessing how life seemed to find its way back into the
region. New plants and animals started growing back within weeks of
the eruption, and today in the landscape one can witness new life
flourishing next to the old devastation.
Every evolutionary jump in our natural history has taken place by
allowing for a period of confusion and even complete chaos. The
species in question seemed to have tried to evolve in every possible
direction, and for some time it did. Until finally one direction became
the predominant evolutionary change. Out of the confusion came the
next direction of growth.
In our business world today, we seem to be standing on the brink of
one of these evolutionary jumps. Our old institutions are undergoing
change at a volcanic speed and scale. And all of us are running
around, trying to survive day by day, waiting for the next evolutionary
jump in our economy.
Perhaps we should have more faith in our economy and our own
creativity. Perhaps we can recognize this confusion and chaos as a
necessary step in the evolutionary growth of our economy. We should
realize that confusion is good. It is fertile ground for creativity.
Instead of falling into the trap of our old training and giving in to
desperation and panic, perhaps we can become more proactive and
creative. Perhaps we can even use our imagination with such faith and
confidence that we can steer the direction of our economic
evolutionary growth.
Who knows, our idea which may have seemed insignificant to us, may
just be that next evolutionary jump waiting to happen.
© Shahriar Shahriari
May 1996
Vanc
ouver Canada
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