Guia para a Oração Mensal [Português]

Oração / Meditação do Grande Amor - www.majorloveprayer.org

QUEM: Fãs de Michael Jackson ao redor do mundo, além de qualquer pessoa que quiser curar o mundo com a gente! Todos são bem vindos!

O QUE: Inspirado no desejo de Michael Jackson de curar o mundo, a Major Love Prayer (Oração do Maior Amor) é um evento global mensal, que é realizado ao mesmo tempo em todo o mundo, em cada país da Terra. Todos nos unimos em espírito por alguns momentos para espalhar a energia positiva do amor, paz e cura para todos. Como MJ canta em "Another Part Of Me", "we're sending out a major love!" (Estamos enviando um grande amor).

QUANDO: Todos os meses, no dia 25 exatamente às 14:00, horário de Los Angeles. Por favor, verifique em www.majorloveprayer.org o temporizador e a hora correta em sua localidade. (O melhor é estar preparado cerca de cinco minutos antes do começo da oração.)

ONDE: Em qualquer lugar! Você pode participar, não importa onde esteja. O lugar ideal é onde você possa relaxar e não ser perturbado por cerca de quinze minutos.

COMO: Esta oração/meditação/afirmação envolve participantes de todo o mundo, então as instruções sugeridas abaixo não são específicas para nenhuma religião ou prática espiritual. Sinta-se livre para ajustar os detalhes de acordo com suas próprias crenças e desejos.

Preparação (5 ou mais minutos antes da oração, se possível)

• Sente-se numa posição confortável e relaxe sua mente. Respire calma e profundamente. Deixe qualquer estresse desaparecer. Você pode optar por ouvir uma música relaxante ou inspiradora (como Heal The World, We Are The World, etc.), fazer uma oração ou mantra especial, ore por Michael, sua família ou outros, acenda uma vela, etc. Comece a pensar em nossa intenção coletiva (espalhar o amor, a paz e a cura através do mundo).

Começo da oração

• Feche os olhos e se foque no AMOR; no sentimento de dar e receber amor. Sinta amor por você mesmo, por sua família, por seus amigos, por Michael, pela Terra, por Deus/Universo/Criador (de acordo com suas crenças) e assim por diante. Sinta esse amor no seu coração.

• Visualize as milhares de outras pessoas ao redor do mundo que estão fazendo exatamente a mesma coisa neste momento.

• Deixe esse sentimento de amor e alegria expandir e conectá-lo com todos os que participam (incluindo possivelmente o Michael, se você puder acreditar nisso). Você é agora parte de uma imensa rede de amor em todo o mundo.

• Este amor agora se espalha por todo o planeta. Visualize-o se expandindo e delicadamente englobando a Terra, passando por todas as formas de vida, curando os animais, as florestas, o ar, os oceanos, as pessoas, tudo. Estamos em paz. Fomos curados. Somos amor. Somos um.

• Continue com esse sentimento por um minuto ou dois, desde que você se sinta confortável. Você pode continuar por mais alguns minutos, se quiser. Quando estiver pronto para abrir os olhos novamente, não se esqueça de agradecer a todos por este esforço de cura. Em sua mente e coração, diga "obrigado" aos fãs e colegas participantes, a Deus/Universo/Criador e a Michael pelo amor e inspiração que nos reuniram hoje. Deseje o bem a todos. Agora abra os olhos, respire fundo e saiba que você está seguro e centralizado dentro de si. Você é forte, saudável e amado.

Obrigado e nos encontramos de novo no dia 25 do mês que vem!


[em Inglês] . . . ♥ Muito obrigado, CaarlaRose, for this translation to Portuguese! (português do Brasil) ♥ . . . added Feb 18, 2010

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Gids voor maandelijks gebed/meditatie [Nederlands]

Major Love Prayer/Meditation - www.majorloveprayer.org

WIE: Michael Jackson fans over de hele wereld en iedereen die droomt de wereld te verbeteren met ons! Iedereen is welkom!

WAT: Het Major Love Prayer (Groot Liefdes Gebed/Meditatie) is een maandelijks, wereldwijd evenement geinspireerd door Michael Jackson's verlangen om te wereld te verbeteren. Het neemt iedere maand op dezelfde tijd, wereldwijd in ieder land op deze aardbol plaats. We komen allemaal voor geestelijk en mentaal een moment samen om de positieve energie te verspreiden van liefde, vrede en heling. Zoals MJ zingt in Another Part of Me, "We're sending out a major love!"

WANNEER: Iedere 25e van de maand om exact 2:00pm (14:00), Los Angeles tijd. Je kunt op www.majorloveprayer.org het aftellen volgen en de juiste tijd vinden voor je locatie. (Het is het beste om 5 minuten voordat het begint jezelf klaar te maken.)

WAAR: Overal! Het maakt niet uit waar je je bevindt, je kunt altijd meedoen. De ideale locatie is daar waar je je rustig en ongestoord voor ongeveer vijftien minuten kan focussen.

HOE: Dit gebed (ook wel meditatie genoemd) omvat deelnemers over de hele wereld, dus de onderstaande suggesties zijn niet specifiek van belang voor enige religie of spirituele uitoefening. Voel je vrij om het te gebruiken naar jouw eigen geloof of wensen.

Voorbereiding (5 of meer minuten voordat het begint, daar mogelijk)

• Ga in een comfortable positie zitten en probeer jezelf te kalmeren. Adem rustig en diep. Laat de stress van je afglijden. Je kunt kiezen om naar rustige of inspirerende muziek te luisteren (zoals Heal The World, We Are The World, etc.), een speciaal gebed of mantra te zeggen, te bidden voor Michael, zijn familie of anderen, een kaars aan te steken, etc. Begin met nadenken over wat jouw intentie is (verspreiden van liefde, vrede of heling over de wereld enzovoort).

Gebed/meditatie begint

• Sluit je ogen en focus op liefde; op het gevoel van geven en nemen van liefde. Voel de liefde voor jezelf, voor je familie, voor je vrienden, voor Michael, voor deze wereld, voor God/het universum/de creatie (ligt aan jouw geloven) enzovoort. Voel deze liefde in je hart.

• Visualiseer duizenden anderen rondom de wereld die exact het zelfde aan het doen zijn op dit moment.

• Laat dit gevoel van liefde verspreiden en maak de connectie naar iedereen die deelneemt (mogelijk ook Michael, als jij dit wil geloven). Je bent nu deel van een web van liefde over de hele wereld.

• Deze liefde verspreidt zich nu over de hele wereld. Visualiseer het verder uitbreiden en voel de compassie met de aarde, in alle levende vormen, heling van dieren, de bossen, de lucht, de oceanen, de mensen, alles. We zijn in vrede. We zijn geheeld. We zijn geliefd. We zijn een.

• Blijf dit gevoel voor een minuut of twee vasthouden, of hoe lang jij je er comfortabel bij voelt. Als je klaar bent om je ogen weer te openen, wees dan zeker dat je iedereen bedankt voor zijn of haar kracht. Zeg ‘bedankt’ in je hoofd en hart aan alle fans en deelnemers, aan God/het universum/de creatie (ligt aan jouw geloven) en aan Michael voor de liefde en inspiratie die ons vandaag samen bracht. Wens iedereen het beste. Open nu je ogen, haal diep adem en weet dat je veilig bent bij jezelf. Je bent sterk, gezond en geliefd.

Bedankt en we zien elkaar volgende maand weer op de 25e!

[in English]. . . ♥ Thank you so much, Bianca in the Netherlands, for this translation to Dutch! ♥ . . . added Feb 17, 2010

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We Are The World... So Let's Start Giving

Twenty-five years after the original recording, Michael Jackson's beautiful song (co-written by Lionel Ritchie) is once again alive for the world and helping those in need! If you missed the video premiere of 'WE ARE THE WORLD 25 FOR HAITI', you can watch it below (via youtube) or at the official site WeAreTheWorldFoundation.org. The charity song can be downloaded from iTunes, in the US you can text "WORLD" to 50555 to donate $10 (standard SMS or data rates apply) or you make a direct donation to the We Are The World Foundation by visiting the website link above.

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Michael Jackson, Personal Love Tutor

Michael Jackson, Personal Love Tutor (a msg to fellow fans)
(c) Feb 4, 2010 BeGodsGlow / majorloveprayer.org

Are we growing? Are we evolving? If not now, when will we begin?

When I was younger I used to long for some grand spiritual teacher to appear, to show me the way, to guide me to the secrets of the universe. "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." I must have read this line at least a hundred times in mystical literature. While I didn't quit my job to live an ascetic existence in a faraway land, a sincere seeker I was. Yet where was my teacher, my guru? Perhaps I should have been satisfied where so many have, in the wisdom of history and perennial teachers like Jesus or Buddha. And while I respected them greatly (!) and took what words I could to heart, maybe it was the disquietude of youth that still needed an extra someone I could relate to in the here and now. Not one to follow easily or join a cult ;) I felt a bit left out in the cold, although still hopeful.

As the years went by it became clearer that some of us must've chosen to go it alone in this life. No special teacher appeared. Well, as we all do I learned many lessons (from the tiniest to the painfully or gloriously grand!) from friends and fellow travelers, but via no great guru. Perhaps there simply wasn't one for me.

One thing learned, though, is that we really are all the same in the end. We're all made of the same stuff. "The blood inside of me is inside of you!" We're all strolling down the same seemingly endless road to God. And if this is a giant cosmic classroom, there must be grade/class levels. And as such, a 10th grader is no more special or important than a 2nd grader; they've just learned more. The older student hasn't reached perfection. They don't know all the answers. And eventually the 2nd grader will know as much. This view eliminates both worship and inferiority, and it allows for mentoring, for tutelage. The kid up one grade/class might still be struggling with calculus, but he's pretty darned good at algebra. Wonderful! You've got yourself a new math tutor.

And so it was the other day, when working on a problem far more confounding than any quadratic equation, that I came face to face (so to speak) with my secret, unrecognized teacher. The dilemma was an age-old one: how do we love in the face of pain, when anger tears us up over someone stolen from this life, gone too soon? How do we love when we feel our hearts scream for vengeance? How do we not hate when our society even expects such reaction, when we shake with resentment and demand justice? How can we as fans face the tragic loss of our beloved Michael and live through the filing of charges and probable trial of Dr Murray... "with love"? My heart was crying out to find an answer for us, to hold us together, to not let division, conspiracy, hoax theories and infighting divide and conquer us. Us. Michael's Soldiers of Love. Where is my long-lost guru now when I need him, I thought?! And there, as eloquently as the universe could show me, there he was, staring back at me from a photo on my bookshelf ... these two big, beautiful eyes that have always gone straight to my soul and accompanied me from childhood, through dark times and light, always with me. It was Michael Jackson -- my imperfect, still-evolving personal LOVE tutor.

All these years he's been there, telling me that if I want to make the world a better place, I should look at myself and make that change. He begged me to see that WE are the world, no matter if you're black or white. Let's start giving! He asked me, "Can you feel it?", because the whole world is coming together now! He told me that we are here to change the world, that you're just another part of me (we're all one!), that our message is within the MAJOR LOVE that we should be sending out to each other! He wanted to show me that we can "be God's glow" and heal the world, because "there's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one!" And amidst the cries of "what about us?!" he lamented a world in which he "used to dream", but now doesn't know where we are. Yes, sometimes it seems we've drifted far. And on that awful June 25th, we certainly all cried at the same time that night. Michael couldn't do it alone. It's going to take somebody else... thousands, maybe millions of somebody elses. Me! You! All of us!

And that was his message in This Is It. "It's all for love. L.O.V.E." Do we care?! Do we give a damn?!

Love doesn't compromise. Love doesn't wait until it's convenient to teach you its lessons. "Love won't wait" until we finish simmering with hatred and bitterness and try to regroup and find ourselves again. We're a family, MJ fans. We've always been and more than ever before we must remain one in this difficult time. Our precious teacher is gone from the physical world and now we must turn to each other. If we can't treat each other with love, where does that leave the world? It's time to come together, stand strong and declare in one voice that it's LOVE we represent! Not hate! LOVE. That's the message. That's the truth. If not now, then when will we begin?

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Grammy Awards & Michael Jackson's message of LOVE

Earth Song was beautiful. Thank you Michael for your caring heart and your perseverance for the planet and humanity. And thank you Celine, Usher, Smokey, Jennifer and Carrie. Below is a quote from an article about the Grammys:

" Michael Jackson's eldest children spread a simple – yet powerful – message at Sunday's Grammy Awards while accepting their late father's Lifetime Achievement Award midway through the live telecast.

"Through all his songs, [our father's] message was simple: love," Prince Michael, 12, said on stage at the Staples Center, surrounded by his cousins and sister Paris, 11. "We will continue to spread his message and help the world."

In an emotional moment during a performance-heavy telecast, the late King of Pop's children thanked fans for their support after Jackson's death on June 25. "We are proud to accept this award on behalf of our father," Prince Michael said. "We'd like to thank God for watching over us for these past seven months and our grandma and grandpa for their love and support. We would also like to thank the fans; our father loved you so much because you were always there for him." -- Full article: Michael Jackson's Kids Spread His Message of Love "

Thank you Prince and Paris Jackson for your strength and touching words when accepting the award tonight on behalf of your father. You did so well and we're sure he is very proud of you, smiling with you every moment. May God bless you both and also your brother. You are all in our prayers. We will forever love your father with all our hearts, and please know that this extends to you as well. It must be very odd to have so many strangers say they care about you, but we fans are an extended family all over the world (our 'MJFam') and you three are always welcome if ever you should need us. L.O.V.E. and blessings.

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