{"id":3575,"date":"2012-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/finding-the-centre\/"},"modified":"2014-06-11T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T08:16:59","slug":"finding-the-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/2012\/01\/finding-the-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the centre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finding the centre\u2028<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Kids waiting for breakfast<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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One of the recurring questions you hear in Christmas days is: \u201cWhat are you going to do on New Year\u2019s Eve?\u201d\u00a0 Usually you answer without enthusiasm: \u201cI don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t decided yet\u201d. Or: \u201cI will have lunch with some friends of mine\u201d. This year we had the good luck to celebrate New Year\u2019s Day with the kids of the school Shri Aghoreshwar Gurukul, a gift we decided to allow ourselves to rally and have an experience of discovery and relationship, to try to find outside and inside ourselves the simple and real things in life again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Milk for breakfast for the youngest ones<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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And, to do this, we have thought to color and paint some mandalas with all the school kids. Mandalas are circular images, present in many cultures and with a very ancient tradition, that bring men back to their very centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The kids of the school Shri Aghoreshwar Gurukul<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The energy of the kids of the school can be recognized by the rush with which they pick the colors of the felt tips we scatter on their desks, by the attention and the very great care with which they use them to color the mandalas we have cut out for them, by the curiosity with which they observe the final results, by the surprise of seeing them hung on their classroom walls and by their satisfied smile when they recognize their own mandala among the other ones, by the cheerful and amused comments while they observe the poster including all the drawings in a bigger circle.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mandalas can be drawn as well as \u201cexperienced\u201d, as you can see in many folk dances and in a ring-a-ring-o\u2019-roses; we saw this among the small groups of kids playing with the very colored \u201cspirogiro\u201d and drawing very nice circular shapes as if by magic; we felt this inside while we were drawing the outlines with the colored chalks to paint mandalas on the school walls and we felt a very intense emotion: for a moment, we felt the awareness, ephemeral like the chalk mark on the wall, of having found the centre. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  Finding the centre\u2028   Kids waiting for breakfast   One of the recurring questions you hear in Christmas days is: \u201cWhat are you going to do on New Year\u2019s Eve?\u201d\u00a0 Usually you answer without enthusiasm: \u201cI don\u2019t know, I haven\u2019t decided yet\u201d. Or: \u201cI will have lunch with some friends of mine\u201d. This year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5319,"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/5319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shriaghoreshwar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}