Radhadesh

Photographs from Radhadesh, the Hare Krishna centre in Belgium.
 beautiful inspirational figurines

Hare Krishna Study

Hi!

I'm so excited for sunday! Me and a group of other students have been given the assignment to study one particular group in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After discussing different types of groups we've decided to go for the Hare Krishna movement in Rotterdam, where they are well known and easily recognised.
I had taken the responsibility to make contact with them and asked if it would be possible for me and my group to do some interviews and be present during certain rituals etc.
Yesterday I had an email from them saying that we are invited to one of their meetings on coming sunday. where they will be singing/chanting and dancing ang giving lectures about the bhagavad gita which is the holy book of the Hindus.

picture from krishna.org

The next couple of weeks my group and I will be interviewing some members and learn as much as possible about this religion who some people call a religious cult. I cannot decide on that before I have experienced a meeting for myself and talked to these people. I believe in the teaching of the Buddha and I have thought about many of his teachings and still do. I do not blindly believe in what is said. so I am curious to know what made them join the hare krishna and what kind of impact it has had on their lifes.

I you are curious about the hare krishna ( and other religions) and want to learn more about them. I suggest you keep an eye on my blog, because I will be writing about them regularly.

I'll be back on sunday!

Beauty Issues

  

Lately I've been wondering about Beauty. What is Beauty? What defines Beauty and who does?

Beauty according to Wikipedia:

Beauty (also called prettiness, loveliness or comeliness) is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience ofpleasure or satisfaction.^[1] Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.

Altough I am a big fan of make-up, not the M.A.C kind of make up just the normal kind of make up you buy in a drugstore. I do believe that true beauty and I am talking about outer beauty is a face that shines with and without make up, so you are able to show your true features just the way you are. Not only do I believe that that is true beauty I also believe that it is beneficial for your skin not to use alot of make-up. Make-up can irritate your skin and mascara and other eye make-up can damage your eyes. I mean think about it. Using products which most of the time do not use natural ingredients and putting it on your face everyday, each morning when you get dressed. and taking it off with more chemicals how can you're face be healthy if you're not giving it time to breath.

I do advice that if you wear make up you should clean it with oil, it's not aggresive on your skin. especially if you have a difficult skin type like i do.