Sister Jayanti's Carbon Footprint (was Sacred Earth 2016)
Posted: 11 Jun 2016
Hey y'all. I found this to be hilarious. Sr Jayanti would probably laugh too.
Independent thought about the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University for those wishing to leave, and friends and family of followers
http://www.brahmakumaris.info/forum/
http://www.brahmakumaris.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3757
Choosing not to eat doesn’t mean sitting around feeling miserable! What some people say on fasting: “It’s a rich personal experience, it gives a sense of revival, and cleansing, and joyfulness.” “To bring climate change under control we need to exercise self-control, we need to act together, fasting enhances our focus and determination.”
* Disingenuous
Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does.
Sister Jayanti Kirpalani ‘Climate Change & Sustainability’ Speaking Engagements, see also, here: BK Jayanti environmental speaking-engagements
2015
Paris, France - SIF15: Sustainable Innovation Forum. Arranged by Climate Action and UNEP.
Hotel Zonheuvel, Doorn, Netherlands - Dialogue with Ruud Lubbers (former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
2014
New York, USA – Interfaith & Climate Change Summit, September. Faith Communities, Divestment and Renewable Energy. Panel member with Rev. Fletcher Harper (Greenfaith) and Archbishop Emeritus Anders Wejryd (Church of Sweden Uppsala).
Hamburg, Germany – EU Sustainable Energy Week, 23–27 June, World in Transition.
Sheraton Hotel evening event, Brussels, Belgium – EU Sustainable Energy Week, 23–27 June, New Thinking Creates New Realities.
Bonn, Germany – Climate Change Conference, June. Integrating the heart makes a difference.
Global Co-operation House, London – Values, conscience and climate change, June. Panel speaker with Rev. David Rose (Chair, World Congress of Faiths).
Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India – Hindu Environment Week, February. Keynote speaker.
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy – Fifth International Forum on Food and Nutrition (hosted by Barilla),
November. Keynote speaker: The value of food for the future of our planet.
Warsaw, Poland – COP 19, November
Thimphu, Bhutan – Integrating Material and Spiritual Development for an Economy of Greater Wellbeing, June. Global Peace Initiative of Women (GPIW)
Brussels, Belgium - EU Sustainable Energy Week, 24–28 June
Berlin, Germany - EU Sustainable Energy Week, 24–28 June. The Ecology of Consciousness – Science and Spirituality.
2012
Doha, Qatar – COP 18, November-December – Protecting our atmosphere: State and individual responsibilities and the rights of Mother Earth.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Rio +20, June – Sustainable Societies. New Paradigms and New Forms of Governance.
2011
Durban, South Africa – COP 17, December
Geneva, Switzerland – Participation in the first meeting of an informal group of faith-based NGOs that constitute the Geneva Interfaith Forum on Climate Change, Environment and Human Rights, October.
Geneva, Switzerland – Cultural Rights and Climate Change: Spiritual and Ethical Perspectives (supported by with the World Council of Churches), May.
Oxford, United Kingdom – Global Retreat Centre, May.
2009
Copenhagen, Denmark – COP 15, December
2008
Johannesburg, South Africa – UN World Summit on Sustainable Development, August. Member of the Brahma Kumaris delegation.
2007
London, United Kingdom – Event To Protect the Earth. Owning our responsibility with Ranchor Prim, author and founder of the environmental charity Friends of Vrindavan.
2005
Madrid, Spain – Keynote speaker during Businesses with Soul and Responsibility in a Changing Environment, special conference for business people organised by La Fundación Sagardoy and the Club de Excelencia en Sostenibilidad.
1992
Geneva, Switzerland – Participation in the Geneva preparatory meetings at the UN leading up to the Rio Earth Summit
Friend wrote:I do hope she, or Maureen, will give a message about Orlando, because, as irrelevant as it might be to Gyan, they have somehow forgotten LGBT people exist.
Friend wrote:... meditation has, indeed, been shown to influence people (so also nature) outside of those meditating (electromagnetic fields etc) so I think it's also a practical advice
Like ... for some souls to experience peace, they need to leave the body because it's too dysfunctional to be healed.
Friend wrote:Like ... for some souls to experience peace, they need to leave the body because it's too dysfunctional to be healed.
In the early part of the BKs' history, there was no thought of the BKs "purifying" the environment.
Pink Panther wrote:Actually it was. That's why Destruction had to happen ... Baba’s wonder .
Friend wrote:there is a study about many people in some place in Asia meditating together on peace and the statistics of violence in the area chamged dramatically.
Friend wrote: 2) Assuming both meditation and action can be helpful in different ways, even if in some cases only action can make a difference, we could say that those people who do not want to take action can at least meditate .. like, someone plants a tree and another one meditates on that tree's healthy development etc.
House Democrats protested on the floor of Congress to demand gun safety policy, not just thoughts and prayers ”Our silence does not honour the victims, it mocks them".
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