Persian, women, peace

سلام به زیبایان عالم به نصف جمعیت دنیا، به ما که شاید هر روز از آینه می‌پرسیم "کی‌ از من خوشگل تره تو این دنیا؟"، ولی‌ منظورمان شخصیت بد داستان بودن نیست، مسابقه نیست، عادت کرده ایم. سلام به ما که قربان صدقهٔ خودمان می‌رویم که اعتماد به نفس ضعیفمان را قوی کنیم.

سلام به ما که وقتی‌ زیبارویی از جنس خودمان میبینیم در دلمان می‌گوییم جل الخالق! و حسودی نمی‌کنیم قبطه نمی‌خوریم، و به جای اینکه بگوییم "خدا چقدر در حق من ظلم کرده" به این نگاه می‌کنیم که چه زیبا و خرامان راه میرود، چه لبخندی از چشمانش جاریست، چه رنگ‌ها را زیبا با هم در لباسش آشتی‌ داده! چرا که اینها لطفیست که او به خودش کرده نه ظلمی که خدا به من کرده!

سلام به ما که وقتی‌ پرنده بال شکسته‌ای را میبینیم با او حرف می‌زنیم و برایش آب و نا‌ن می‌بریم، سلام به ما که با گل‌های خانه حرف می‌زنیم، و میدانیم محبت فقط به آب و نا‌ن خلاصه نمی‌شود، به من و جنس من که میدانیم زبان پرنده و گل را، که می‌شناسیم سوختن شمع را.

سلام به من و جنس من که همیشه در تکاپوی شناخت آن مریخی‌ها هستیم. آنها هم همنوع ما هستند اما دنیا به دست آنها به اینجا رسیده که میبینیم. آنها هم بهترینشان را انجام داده‌اند.

جنگ و ستیز غوغا می‌کند، انسانهای بیگناه کشته میشوند، و من و جنس من از حسّ همدردی و خود را به جای مادرن داغدار و زنهای بیوه و دختران یتیم  گذاشتن، خسته شده ایم!

آینهٔ داستان سفید برفی و زیبای خفته پاسخ نمیدهد به درد دنیا. راستی‌ کدام آینه راست می‌گوید؟ آنها که هم جنس‌های مرا مکرراً به زیر چاقوی جراح پلاستیک میبرند؟ یا آینه ای‌ که وجدان ما در آن به ما لبخند اشنا و عاشقانه میزند؟

سلام و درود به تو هم جنس من که آینه‌های خانه ات وقتی‌ بیدار میشوی به تو لبخند میزنند و برق چشمانت را می‌دزدند و به تو می‌گویند "قربون اون برق چشات"!

آتش برق چشمانت که فراهم شد میدانی که وقتش رسیده آتشی در دلها اندازی که ۲ خاصیت دارد: دنیا را نورانی کند و دوم پرده‌ها بسوزاند! نورانی کند که راه عدالت و عشق و همبستگی‌ را بهتر بتوان دید و بسوزاند پرده‌های نفرت و کینه و حسادت و تعصب را!

درود به تو همجس من و همنوع  من! چشمانت پر برق باد و آتش درونت پا برجا.

در ضمن همجنس من !نگران نان جراح پلاستیک هم نباش، بگذار دست و صورت سوخته آن اطفال بیگناه جنگ زده را عمل کنند و پولش را دولت هایی بدهند که روزانه پول‌ها که صرف ابزار کشتار نمیکننند!

برق چشمان من و تو یادت نرود!

اگر مدرسه نرفته ای‌ به اکراین نرو!

سروصدای شهر، بیرون از پنجره، سکوت خانه و هیاهوی درون با هم همخوانی ندارند. تازه بیدار شده ام.

 همه چیز مثل ارکستری میماند که اعضایش در حال کوک کردن آلت موسیقی یشان هستند. چه ناهنجار! من هم آلت موسیقی‌‌ام را در دست میگیرم و مینویسم.انگار حروف لطافتی دارند به پهنای گلبرگ ها, وجودم می‌خواهد آرام بگیرد، صدای ترافیک نمیگذرد.

پنجره را بستم، و باز به دنبال آن لطافت گشتم، مگسی دور و بر گل وجودم شاید پروانه ور، می‌خواهد بگردد، اما درسش را درست نخوانده و در مدرسه پروانه به هر دلیلی‌ که داشته حضور نداشته، از وز وز و حرکتهای نا ملایمش معلوم است که تکلیف شب را انجام نداده. می‌خواهم با او مثل گل رفتار کنم، طاقتم تنگ شده، به تنگی قلبم در آن روز فراموش نشدنی‌ وداع، اشک در چشمانم جمع میشود و دلم می‌خواهد تلافی تمام دردهای دنیا را بر سر این مگس در آورم، انگار ناگهان درد داغ دیدگان آن هواپیمایی که بالای آوکراین مورد هدف قرار گرفت، یک باره تقصیر این مگس شد! آن مسافران که رفتند، باز ماندگانشان چه احساسی‌ دارند؟ امروز صبح که بیدار شدند هیاهوی درونشان، سروصدای بیرون، و سکوت تلخ خانه شان، بدون عزیزانشان....


خدا کند مگس مدرسه نرفته‌ای مثل همان که سراغ من آمده به سراغ آنها هم برود که تلافی غم از دست رفته‌شان را بر سر آن بیچاره خالی‌ کنند.

پنجره را باز کردم، با هش هش دفترم بیرونش کردم و گفتم هر جا میروی امروز به اوکراین نرو.

 

Can one lie to oneself?

Has anyone lied to you? Was it really terrible when you found out it was a lie? Have you ever lied to other people?How did that feel? I am actually not curious about how it felt when you lied? LOL  Because I am quite sure it is not a good  feeling. I am trying to get beneath that feeling, to the before " telling a  lie" feeling. 

I was participating in a group study called Ruhi classes in the form of study circle. In those Ruhi classes one can learn about the Baha’i religion. We meet once a week. In the section one of the book one, that we were studying, there was a question ” Can one lie to oneself?”  Now I must tell you in this study circle everything is and can be questioned, it is kind of like a kid who is still in mother’s arms and point her finger at everything and asks what is this? And what is this? And this? or when later the kid is a little older and starts with the „why”s : ) regardless of your response to the „what” she asks „why”?

There is a great development possibility  for women and men alike when they become parents. They not only answer the questions, sometimes they are at awe of how did that come to their kid’s mind!!!?

Some parents though miss to harvest this from their children, instead they get annoyed and may even say O my God she asks so many questions, she drives me crazy! The reality is most of those questions are valid questions to us too. It is just that in a period of our lives we forgot or stopped asking them, maybe because people were fed up with our questions. Maybe because our care takers gave us wrong answers  or said „ I don’t know” in a row to just shot us up, or our questions all of a sudden became political or around topics which were dogmas. This doesn’t mean we don’t have questions.

In the study circle we could ask as many questions as we wanted around the topic and there was a time when we didn’t have anymore question and then we were reflecting! 

A beautiful part of reflection comes when you are looking for further answers without even realizing, you are pondering. That little kid in you is like hmmm what happened to me, I do not have anymore questions?  And you know deep down, this doesn’t mean you know it all, it is just that you were thirsty and the discussion was like sippin on water, it quenched your thirst for that session. See you next week!!!!

Now can one lie to oneself? 

I have, many times. As a teenager,  stood in front of the mirror and because of that ugly zist in my face I said ohhhh „I am” so ugly.  God forbid I do it now with the wrinkles :) !!! 

Has anyone lie to you? Who cares? There is nothing you can do about that. You lost your trust? Why? Lack of trust doesn’t make you a better person. Be trustworthy yourself, be truthful yourself.  Because now you are rich in the feeling of pain, you don’t want to create that for others, right?

People lie because they are so scared. Some of them may say they meant to protect you. Make sure you become a person/ a woman who has the ability to hear the truth so no man or woman can even think to hide the truth from you. It is better for us to work on our capacity to hear the truth rather than thinking, analyzing and digging into why did he lie to me? 

Sometimes kids get scared. We all have that kiddo in us :)

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World Cup or Da'ish

Have you ever been tested with your patience? Is it because we expect everything to be as we want it to be? Is it because we want the people of the world and the universe to know us the way we know ourselves?

Patience is quiet hope and faith that things will turn out right. It is about us trusting the process of life.

Patience is about being gentle with myself and others when we make mistakes. 

Is this a co-incidence that Da'ish is attacking Iraq right when the attention of the people of the world and media is on the World Cup? How about all those people being killed everyday? I love to see everyone celebrating so do I, yet a part of my heart goes for those people in Iraq, Syria and of course Iran. 

Iran's nuclear power development is another headline for the media where actually the hot topic in Iran is Human Rights violation full-force!

Well well well... Patience is accepting things I can not control.

Patience helps me to keep my peace.

@Tara Hajipour@WorldCup 2014

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Prince Haakon of Norway

If you walk with a bag of garbage in the street what do you attract? Mosquitoes or butterflies? How about if you wear a delicious fragrant what would you attract?

If you are a lonely anti-social person would you attract bunch of cool, fun loving people to yourself?

I listened to a lecture and apparently we have learned in physics that a thing with lower intensity attracts similar things with higher intensity.  And the conclusion was I attract people who are similar to myself or I attract a higher (potency homeopathic form of it) similar to what I have in a low dose. If I am a little stubborn I attract a very very stubborn person, but if I am very very kind then I get attracted to someone who is little kind, or so to say the other person with little kindness attracts me who is very very kind. Do you get it?

You can make a list of 5-6 people  who are around you, include your spouse, a person you love, your family members and your friends. Then write down one or more qualities you know in them that you really like and write something you do not like in them. After the list is done have a look at the qualities regardless of the names. That is YOU!
Oooops! :) or Heyyyyy! : )

This, at least to me, confirms Oneness. We seem to be One (soul) in different bodies. If I dislike what I am seeing it would be wise to think for a second what if he/she is a part of myself?

Yesterday I was walking in Akker Brygge in Oslo with some wonderful happy friends. The Crown Prince of Norway Prince Haakon was walking with his lovely wife and two cute kids.
 Yes!!!! absolutely! Norway is a very special country with special people. The Royal family walks where we all do and no one approaches them to cut a piece of their clothes. I asked one of my friends if the Crown Prince's wife was also from a Royal family  and she said no! She seemed very nice and I thought to myself she must have a nobility in her soul to have attracted a Prince to herself.

If we want to attract trustworthy people we should identify that in ourselves.
The picture below is Prince Haakon and his wife

Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby and their two lovely children.
	Princess Ingrid Alexandra Prince Sverre Magnus

Prince Haakon of Norway and his family
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World Cup! I want to Be Brazil

Do you watch football? What a question! You may stop reading my blog right away....please don't I will be short. Have you thought about those body guards/police that stay around the football court and watch people with their back to the game? Isn't that torture for someone who may love football?
 
There must be a great excitement going on in Brazil and more than ever not only I want to be in Brazil but I want to Be Brazil! Brazil has received one of the most beautiful letters The letter

The President of Brazil Ms.Dilma Rousseff has extended an invitation to the Baha'i World Centre and has asked them to make a statement and contribute to the promotion of world peace at the occasion of the World Cup. I want to say only a woman would think of such thing. My salutation to Ms President @Dilma Rousseff.

If you read The letter you will see how a meeting like World Cup can be viewed and experienced as a place to practice and observe Oneness conditioning each person tries to eliminate all kinds of prejudice from the heart and mind, where we put our focus on the teamwork and cooperation in each team rather than competition and winning, God forbid we think of beating the other team.

We don't need to have a Looser to be a Winner.
We can all be winners if we harvest the qualities and bring them back with us from Brazil.

I am happy Jennifer Lopez accepted to participate in the World Cup song, every time I watch the video I look forward to her part, it is not much though :)

Scroll up, read the letter, feel what I felt, I want to be Brazil <3

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Writing out of love about decisions

Are you decisive or indecisive? Do you have so many choices and is that why it is difficult to decide? Or are you generally like that, I mean you narrow the whole shoe market to two pair of shoes and you still don't know which one to buy? :)

Decision making is not easy I am with you in that, except I don't buy as many shoes as I would love to :) I am crazy about shoes.

 Decision making entitles that we examine the situation, the pros and contras and even if we think we can't decide we sacrifice something and go for one of the two.

Making choices is not about being certain in one thing, or at least now I think, it is more about sacrificing one thing, or giving up something. I mean look at those two pairs of shoes, you love both of them don't you? Wouldn't it make you happier if you would think you were sacrificing or giving up one of them?

What I am trying to say is that when we are making choices there are so many virtues at work, please forgive my simple example of choosing shoes.

 We are in fact making decisions in every moment of our lives. To lie or tell the truth? To be honest or cheat? To help or ignore? To fill our lives with work or have some space for love? To focus on my values or give myself away? To be real or fake? To drink and drive or to choose a good company and dine? To use the faculty of meditation every day or go on antidepressant and sleeping pills? To do sport or sit at the computer? To live or to die? To clean the apartment or postpone it? To send yet another note to the one I love or sit and cry? To serve or let my work be service? To take care of my body or take care of everyone else's mind? To get annoyed by something someone said or let go? To tell someone you love him/her back or I don't have time for this?

Life is about choices. When we make choices we need justice to be the best beloved, we need sacrifice at the apex of our heart, we need love towards all creatures, we need joy flowing throughout our lymphatic system, we need discernment as a glass to our eyes and we need care towards ourselves.

Life is about choices! I want to choose to be happy today. I am grateful I have the free Will to choose to be happy....I really am grateful!

For today and all it's blessings I owe life an attitude of gratitude."

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