Full Moon Message
By Wolfgang Bischoff
[Editor’s note: Wolfgang Bischoff is a mantra initiator, a member of the AHYMSIN Adhyatma Samiti (Spiritual Committee) and lives in Germany. The full moon meditation time in your area can be found at Full Moon Meditation Schedule.]
Dear People,
On February 27th, the last full moon of winter shines in the starry sky. Let us become silent together from 9 to 10 pm and contemplate on the miracle of women who are the hope of our world and our future.
Our Manini project in Odisha-India has survived the corona and winter season well and can finally open the gates for our long-awaited girls' boarding school. The buildings are ready for 20 girls with a future capacity of 400 girls. Excited and eager to learn, our girls are looking forward to their future life and learning in this girls' wing, which is closed for their safety.
Swami Rama writes about women:
"If women want to bring a change in the society, they definitely can. Because woman is the architect of the whole society and the architect of human destiny. She built the home, she established the institution of the family in life. She educates the children and makes good citizens out of them. The problem of women today is not whether man or woman is higher. I think women are definitely higher than men, women have the real strength. The world needs their help nowadays.”
The Dalai Lama writes about the importance of women as a simple monk:
"Mother plays a crucial role in our childhood, and this concerns all 7 billion people on our planet. At your age you know that without your mother's love you would not have survived. That is the law of nature. Fathers play an important role, but at the beginning of life no one can replace the mother. She is the closest caregiver to her child's body and mind. She brought you into the world. The experience of that original connection is crucial. You have been nourished not only by your mother's milk, but equally by maternal love. It has been proven that most people who do not have social consciousness lacked love in their early childhood.
“I myself come from a poor family, from a small village in a deserted area of eastern Tibet. Nevertheless, I have always felt rich, thanks to the great kindness of my mother. I don't remember ever seeing her angry, and she always did good to the people around her. That is why I consider her my first teacher. She gave me the precious gift of teaching me compassion.
“Young women, I appeal to you to be the mothers of the revolution of compassion that this century so desperately needs. You have a special role to play in making the world a better place. It has been proven that women are more emphatic and sensitive than men and are better able to perceive the feelings of their counterparts. They need these qualities as mothers. And in this sense, they are role models for humanity.
“If you look at the past, you will see that at all times and on all continents, it was men who were responsible for destruction and war. They have been hailed as heroes when it would have been better to condemn them as criminals.
In prehistory and early history, the law of the strongest prevailed. And since the muscular strength of men was naturally greater than that of women, male supremacy was established. Over the millennia, however, the situation changed. Education, competence and knowledge have come to the fore. I am a staunch feminist and am pleased that there are more and more young women in leadership positions. Moreover, I have had the honor of meeting many female presidents.
“Dear young women of today, do not be afraid to take on leading roles in the political and economic life of your country. Then you will be in key positions to advance the revolution of compassion.
“Become leaders, because we need you to bring love and compassion to the world! Help me in the fulfillment of my dream: that each of the more than 200 nations of the world is led by a woman! There would be fewer wars, less violence, less social and economic injustice. Above all, do not think that in order to get into these positions of leadership and fill them, you must use the same mechanisms as men. The real power comes from love and compassion. The more numerous you become who exercise power in this sense, the less violence there will be.
“Young women of this century, be the pioneers of the greatest possible revolution of all!”
With this in mind, we are building at the girls' school in Odisha in our Manini project. These young women are the hope of India and the world. To educate them to be people of integrity, ethically and morally pure, and to help through our education that their true, great, inner nature can come to full development, is the meaning fulfillment of our actions.
 This is how we want to educate healthy people, not obedient, burnt-out ones. People who have the courage to deal with each other creatively and constructively at eye level and who do not sink into hierarchical relationships, people who do not work and live in a profit-oriented way, but in a meaningful way. We want to help them not to strive higher, but to go deeper. We want to help them not to become faster and faster, but slower. We want to help them not to get bigger and bigger, but to get closer to each other, to become more vulnerable, more honest and with more courage to make mistakes.
S o this development fits with the approaching spring, the blossoming of nature into the magnificent beauty of diverse colors and shapes.
I wish you an especially silent and insightful hour.
In loving connection to all of you,
Wolfgang
Editor’s Note:
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