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How competent is AMBPPCT?
Current events raise the question (once again), how competent is the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust? The Trust is canvassing public opinion in an entirely symbolic manner by planning four focus group events in England, Australia, South Carolina … Continue reading
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Desire…
Desire is powered by noise. The noise of sanskaras animating corpses to stumble and fall into attention. Bodies are revived by desire inspiring prana. We, robots clank and clank our way to death And by grace the master’s mercy of … Continue reading
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Are Baba’s “Last Warning” and Eruch’s “Bell of Warning” passé?
The recent and ongoing fracas concerning rogue members of Meher Baba Center of No. Cal. and certain trustees of Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust giving Sufism Reoriented of Walnut Creek a wink and a nod to usurp the … Continue reading
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AMBPPCT sponsored focus group event to be held at Sufism “Re-reoriented”
In a major coup for Sufism Re-reoriented and their sympathizers, the Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Trust, based in India, is planning to have Sufism Re-reoriented host a focus group on the development of a long range plan for the … Continue reading
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Ten Thousand Chernobyls rise to bless us
Ten thousand Chernobyls rise to bless us For the Kali Yuga machine age of Progress. Energy is dirty when it promotes desire, When it starts smoking after smoking fire. The car has carried us to the precipice of disaster With … Continue reading
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We walk and walk with the friend by our side
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I long to visit the cool arctic before it melts
https://vimeo.com/341145828 I long to visit the cool arctic before it melts Away in a heat wave that inspires fascist dolts. The end of the world is coming faster than you think In a flood of stupidity that will drown the … Continue reading
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The Master has said most of the world will perish
The Master has said most of the world will perish; Don’t let this bamboozle you, but his name cherish. Earth, millions and millions of times passes away Into nothing; But the mind survives gross decay. And takes birth again and … Continue reading
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The path of remembrance vs. the path of yoga based on Meher Baba’s teachings
Yoga is very big these modern days as the development of physical culture based on the practice of asana, or yogic posture. Asana, in fact, has almost nothing to do with the path of traditional yoga which is primarily based … Continue reading
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Happy 125th birthday on Feb. 25th, Avatar Meher Baba
The fall from grace that is a shooting star recalls the highest heaven from afar; O the Lord and Master has taken birth to bless man and creature and holy Earth!
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