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The beginning of religion is love for God and for His Chosen Ones, and its end is to manifest that love to His servants. I swear by God! Whoso fails to obey the commandments of God can in no wise be numbered among His loved ones, for among the conditions of His love is to follow His commandments and observe His prohibitions. But since these are the days of concealment, and the Sun of eternity remains hidden beneath the horizon of being, one must gather together everyone with love and protect them. The time for the completion of the commandments and the perfection of deeds will assuredly come.

With the goal of unifying and celebrating humanity, the contest was created based on the Italian Sanremo Music Festival. In today’s show, we will highlight some of the many moving songs by gifted entrants from Eurovision 2019 that caught our attention with their beautiful messages of love and hope. Our first song, “Bigger Than Us” by Michael Rice from the United Kingdom, reminds us what true love is. Styled as a ballad, accompanied by a powerful chorus, “Wake Up” inspires courage to seek truth and hope for a better future.

Will Tucker is a 4-time winner of the Natural Bodybuilding Championship; he is a sought-after author, certified fitness trainer and speaker. While bodybuilding, Will Tucker has developed into a vegan hero and champion of the animals, while his love expands to all beings, motivating him to exemplify further, how vegans can also be successful, compassionate athletes. Opting for a vegan lifestyle nowadays, is now a mainstream movement, and having experienced first-hand the benefits derived from the vegan diet. “Do it. Give yourself a 30-day challenge. You’ll notice that your recovery is so much faster, your workouts, you have so much more energy, you feel so much more alive, and, just give it a chance.”

People are so pitiful. They have Buddha Nature, but they cannot recognize it. They have their own inner Heaven, but they cannot realize it. They roll in the dust all day all night, until they are so filthy and lost, and unable to think of anything. Go back to their place of work and earn their living. They’ll cause less harm and create less karma. The higher their position is and the more ignorant they are, the more people they can hurt. We have to try to make the best of our life in this world, as short as your life can be, very short.

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‘Tis from Our rapture that the clouds of realms above are raining down; ’ Tis from Our anthem that the mysteries of faith are raining down. Perchance thou may become pure spirit; attain, without taking a single step, the loftiest stations of mystic ascent; and explore, without leaving thine outward habitation, the furthermost reaches of the worlds of inner significance. Thereupon would thou, with a divine rapture, experience true spiritual attraction, lay down thy life in the path of the Friend, and sacrifice thy soul in the wilderness of His love. This indeed is the meaning of stillness in flight and flight in stillness, of fluidity in solidity and solidity in fluidity.

My home, Little Liuqiu, is a gorgeous coral island. Situated off the southwestern coast of Taiwan, or Formosa, it is part of Pingtung County. The Taiwanese (Formosan) Environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan has launched a number of efforts to safeguard Little Liuqiu. Beginning in 2019, a two-year plan called Plastic Reduction & Zero-Plastic was implemented. Recently, little Liuqiu promoted beach cleaning through a creative beach currency created out of weathered glass scraps. CEO Chen Ren-ping of HiiN Studio and artist Lin Pei-yu tell how this wonderful idea works.

Mr. Tolhurst is a highly innovative farmer. As such, Tolhurst Organics was the first farm in the world to be awarded Stockfree Organic certification by the UK-based Vegan Organic Network. Mr. Tolhurst loves the soil and devotes much of his time to improving its quality. He has learned that careful soil management greatly enhances crop yields. The most important aspect of our work is to manage the soil. This is critical. So, most of what we do is really geared towards improving the soil, maintaining carbon in the soil, which is really important, and maintaining the biological diversity of the soil.

The more stuff we have, the more troublesome it becomes. We have to wipe and to clean it, and worry about it getting taken away by others; worry about thieves. If we have nothing, then we have nothing to worry about. If we have little and cherish what we have, it will be just the same as if we own a lot. We feel even happier than having more stuff. But of course, you must take care of your body; don’t abuse it; don’t let it get sick. However, we don’t need so much to make ourselves healthy and happy. On the contrary, having fewer things and being alone will give us less trouble; no arguments and no distractions. We can be very focused on meditation, or think about something that can help the world.

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So long as we yearn for life (in this world) we can never obtain this precious Jewel. It is through the Grace of the Lord that a rare devotee who dies while living can find this Jewel. So long as you cherish worldly desires, God Realization will not come to you. A person who dies while living lives forever. This dying while living has nothing to do with being cremated or buried. It is a state or condition in which the Master bestows eternal life on his disciples. The Master confers this death upon you to enable you to live eternally. So long as you remain alive on this earth, you should be able to leave your body at will and traverse the higher regions.

One could say Oliver Mtukudzi’s mission was to teach through music. A natural philosopher, he used his lyrics, husky voice and his “Tuku” music, to gently guide his fellow African brothers and sisters on many social issues such as poverty, alcohol abuse and HIV/AIDS. His “Tuku” music was a mixture of southern African music traditions, including mbira, mbaqanga, jit and the traditional drumming styles of the Korekore. He influenced four generations in Zimbabwe with his music, lacing his songs with messages about morality, self-respect, happiness and challenges in life, hope and peace.

In today's show, we will have a closer look at the Loving Hut outlets in North America, where we will visit the thriving Loving Hut restaurants and meet their owners and customers in person. Many of the Loving Hut franchises are run by proprietors who you may not expect to be in the restaurant business. With other career backgrounds, these owners and staff renounced their professional stature and security to dedicate their time and efforts to providing vegan meal options to people, in the hope that it will help alleviate the urgent state of our planet. Let's meet some of our vegan hero friends in North America and hear what they have to say about the Loving Hut in Ohio, where the plant-based menu will have your mouth watering and taste buds tingling, with the creative cuisine on offer.

Who wouldn’t? Even many, many eons passed, many lifetimes passed already, just one time, killed one baby, became Arhat already, all repentant, remorseful, suffered so much already, still had to bear that consequence. Nothing we can escape, free. Therefore really, karma really exists, even (if you) become Arhat. Some karma will be destroyed, but some will remain, so that you can continue to live on. Because that’s her fixed karma. Without this karma, she cannot live here. All of us, same. OK? Except the Master, who has to borrow karma from everybody. Not borrow, but have to bear everybody else’s bad karma. Therefore the Master will not suffer any karma, because it’s all done. The Buddha already had no more karma. But He still had to suffer here and there, because of thee bad karma of disciples.

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Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj was a disciple of the well-known Master of Beas, Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji. They met in 1924, in the Ashram of Baba Sawan Singh Ji on the banks of the Beas River. In the Master, Kirpal Singh Ji recognized the luminous form He had seen during the seven previous years in His meditation. Hazur Maharaj Sawan Singh Ji initiated Him into the spiritual discipline of Surat Shabd Yoga, and from then on Kirpal Singh Ji dedicated His life to reaching the summits of spirituality. In 1939, by an inspiration from His Master, Sant Kirpal Singh Ji began writing “Gurmat Sidhant – Philosophy of the Masters,” a treatise on the science of spirituality.

For centuries, reincarnation remained a mystery, leading to questions about human existence and the nature of previous lives. Nowadays, however, many individuals are coming forward to share detailed memories of their past lifetimes. Dr. Jim Tucker, a renowned past-life expert from the US, has recorded 2,500 cases of children remembering their previous incarnations. Oscar winner, AFI Life Achievement Award recipient, and legendary Hollywood actress Ms. Shirley MacLaine has long been sharing her past-life memories in media interviews, including on the TODAY show.

And in this business of training horses, which I am a professional at, and have won 11 world championships training horses. But, what I inherited was a world whereby demand was made from the horse. That a good trainer can make a horse do whatever he wants him to. But the great trainer can cause the horse to want to do it. And if the teachers in school thought that way, and a lot of them do, or if the bosses of corporations thought that way, and a lot of them do, they would have a better corporation and a better school. If a student is doing their work because they want to, they will do a better job. And the same thing down on the assembly line of a factory.

“Reverend mother, in the past life, what kind of sin did you commit so that in this lifetime, you suffer so much? Please, can you tell us, so that we can learn something?” “Because I did not know about the karma and the consequences of karma. Therefore, I wickedly killed the baby son and I swore as if nothing will happen. Therefore in this lifetime, I had to suffer that much, as exactly as what I have wished in my terrible oath.” “But what kind of good deeds have you done in a former life, so that in this lifetime you are fortunate to meet the Buddha, and even attain a liberating level of consciousness?” “Because I was so sincere and respectfully made offering to this saintly being. And then I vowed, I prayed to attain a high spiritual level like He did.” They’re two different things. Merit, you can enjoy; but sin, you must still pay, endure. Yes, that’s what it is.