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Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
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Sri. Mooji tells us:
✓ How his greatest learning from Papaji has been to not identify what arises in your mind.
✓ How if a person is experiencing doubt and anxiety in their lives, how they could respond with peace to this.
✓ How knowing who we are is the highest attainment in the human kingdom.
✓ How everyone is seeking to be happy and everyone is seeking to find some peace.
✓ How they are aspects of mental illness which is deeply on the path to spiritual evolution.
✓ And how we have a choice to choose the ego's way or choose to be in the heart.
Anthony Paul Moo-Young, known as Mooji, was born on 29 January 1954 in Port Antonio, Jamaica. In 1969, he moved to the UK and lived in Brixton, London. Anthony worked in London's 'West End' as a street portrait artist for many years, then as a painter and a stained glass artist, and later as a teacher at Brixton College. For a long time, he was well known as Tony Moo, but is now affectionately known as Mooji by the many seekers and friends who visited him.
Mooji is a direct disciple of Sri Harilal Poonja, the renowned advaita master, or Papaji, as his followers call him. In 1987, a chance meeting with a Christian mystic was to be a life-changing encounter for Mooji. It brought him, through prayer, into the direct experience of the Divine within. Within a short period, he experienced a radical shift in consciousness so profound that outwardly, he seemed, to many who knew him, to be an entirely different person. As his spiritual consciousness awakened, a deep inner transformation began which unfolded in the form of many miraculous experiences and mystical insights. He felt a strong wind of change blowing through his life which brought with it a deep urge to surrender completely to divine will. Shortly after, he stopped teaching, left his home and began a life of quiet simplicity and surrender to the will of God as it manifested spontaneously within him. A great peace entered his being, and has remained ever since.
For the following six years, Mooji drifted in a state of spontaneous meditation oblivious to the outer world he formally knew. During these years, he lived almost penniless but was constantly absorbed in inner joy, contentment and natural meditation. Grace came in the form of his sister Julianne, who welcomed Mooji into her home with loving kindness, and afforded him the time and space he much needed to flower spiritually, without the usual pressures and demands of external life. Mooji refers to this period of his life as his "wilderness years" and speaks touchingly of a deep feeling of being "seated on the Lap of God". In many respects, these were far from easy times for Mooji, yet there is no trace of regret or remorse in his tone as he recounts these years. On the contrary, he speaks of this phase of his life as being richly blessed and abundant in grace, trust and loving devotion.
In 1993, Mooji travelled to India. He had a desire to visit Dakshineswar in Calcutta where Sri Ramakrishna, the great Bengali Saint, had lived and taught. The words and life of Ramakrishna were a source of inspiration and encouragement to Mooji in the early years of his spiritual development. He loved the Saint deeply but as fate would determine, he would not go to Calcutta. While in Rishikesh, a holy place at the foothills of the Himalayas, he was to have another propitious encounter; this time with three devotees of the great advaita Master Sri Harilal Poonja, known to his many devotees as Papaji. Their persistent invitation to Mooji to travel with them to meet the Master made a deep impression on him. Still he delayed the prospect of meeting Papaji for two whole weeks, choosing first to visit Varanasi, the holy city.
In late November 1993, Mooji travelled to Indira Nagar in Lucknow to meet Papaji. It was to be an auspicious and profoundly significant experience on his spiritual journey. He felt it to be his good fortune; he had met a living Buddha, a fully enlightened master. He gradually came to recognise that Papaji was his Guru. Mooji stayed with Papaji for several months. During one particular satsang meeting, Papaji told him: “If you desire to be one with truth, 'you' must completely disappear.” On hearing this, great anger arose within his mind, full of judgement and resistance towards Papaji. He decided to leave the master's presence for good, but later that day a huge dark cloud of anger and rebelliousness suddenly lifted, leaving his mind in a state of such peace, emptiness and a love towards the master, so intense, that he knew he could not leave. Through 'Papaji's' grace, his mind was pushed back into the emptiness of source.
In 1994, with his Master's blessing, he travelled down to Sri Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai. This is the ashram at the foot of Arunachala, the 'Hill of Fire', where Sri Ramana Maharshi*, the Sage of Arunachala and Papaji's Guru, had lived and taught. Mooji felt very happy and at home in Tiruvannamalai. He stayed there for almost three months before returning to sit at Papaji's feet once again.
A week after returning to Lucknow, Mooji received news from London that his eldest son had died suddenly of pneumonia. He returned to England. The bliss of earlier years gave way to a profound emptiness and inner silence, imparted by the Grace and Presence of Papaji.
Mooji visited Papaji again in 1997. It was to be his last meeting with his Beloved Master, who had by now become ill and frail in his movements, but whose inner light and presence remained undiminished. A month after returning to London, Mooji received news that the Master had passed away. Of this Mooji declares: "That Principle that manifests as the Master is ever HERE NOW. The True Master never dies, it is the mister that dies. The true Master, that Sat Guru* within, alone is the Real".
Since 1999, Mooji has been sharing satsang in the form of spontaneous encounters, retreats, satsang intensives and one-to-one meetings with the many seekers who visit him, from all parts of the world, in search of the direct experience of truth. Few amongst the modern teachers of the advaita tradition expound the 'knowledge of Self', and the method of self-enquiry, with such dazzling clarity, love and authority. There is an energy that radiates from Mooji's presence, a kind of impersonal intimacy, full of love, joy and a curious mix of playfulness and authority. His style is direct, clear, compassionate and often humorous. Once caught in the grip of his questions, there seems to be no place to hide. So unsparing is his scrutiny and uncompromising stance, that the 'I' concept is inescapably exposed as a mental construction, when viewed from the formless awareness we are.
Mooji has travelled to Spain, Italy, Germany, Sweden, North America, Argentina, Brasil, UK, Ireland, Portugal, Ukraine, Poland, Russia, and India, conducting Satsang meetings, Intensives and Retreats. He is ever open to meeting sincere seekers of truth, whatever their background.
Last Updated March 16, 2020
Original Air Date April 28 2016
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Br. Shubamrita, one of Amma's closest disciples, talks about his life as a Monk, Meditation and Happiness this week on The Health Zone.
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
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He tells us:
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Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Tibetan Buddhist Master, Ringu Tulku Rinpoche, Yoga Teacher + Teacher Trainer
Charlie Stevens and Bella Hancock about West Cork’s First Yoga Festival on The Health Zone.
They are talking about yoga, meditation, buddhism, Tibetan medicine and happiness.
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
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Thursday Jan 16, 2020
A thought provoking + insightful interview with Meditation Teacher and Author Sharon
Salzberg this week on The Health Zone:
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
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Sharon is talking about:
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Wednesday Nov 02, 2016
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
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Ivor tells us:
✓ How Seeking Happiness is the Sure Way Not To Be Happy.
✓ How One of The Root Causes of Mental Illness is Lack of Love of the Self.
✓ How We Are on The Verge of Real Break Throughs with The Expansion of Consciousness.
✓ How the Definition of Insanity is Doing The Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting a Different Result.
✓ How Weeping and Crying Are Actually One of The Ways We Heal.
✓ And How No Real Change Can Happen Until Each Person Works on Themselves.
As Chief Psychiatrist for the Eastern Health Board Ivor tried to reform the Irish mental health system but faced enormous opposition from those who couldn't accept his unorthodox methods. He mistrusted traditional psychiatry's dependence on drugs;
It was Ivor who stood by Ross Hamilton and his mother Phyllis when Fr. Michael Cleary's family, friends and Church abandoned them and refused to believe they were Cleary's family. Ross calls him 'a life saver'. "If he didn't speak out for us back then maybe no one would have taken us seriously at all." Ivor suffered the consequences from the Medical Council for taking such a stand.
Thursday Oct 20, 2016
Thursday Oct 20, 2016
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
You listen to every episode of The Health Zone here ------> http://www.thehealthzones.com/ Follow us on Instagram here ---> https://www.instagram.com/dhealthzone/ Follow us on Facebook here ----> https://www.facebook.com/thehealthzoneshow/ Follow us on Twitter here ---> https://twitter.com/dhealthzone Subscribe to our YouTube channel here ---> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbZXDYJF_ypdjEmQk-BEIg ---> Join our Facebook Group here ---> https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehealthzone/
Fr. Laurence tells us:
✓ How there is an Important Distinction Between Healing and Caring.
✓ How the Greatest Teachers in our Culture are Children.
✓ How Many People in Today's World Struggle with Silence and Why That is?
✓ How the Process of Meditation is the Opening of the Eye of the Heart.
✓ How a New Kind of Consciousness is Needed in the World Today to Solve the Problems we Have Created.
✓ And How Staying in Touch with Self-Awareness is the Key to Self-Knowledge.
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Wednesday May 04, 2016
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
You listen to every episode of The Health Zone here ------> http://www.thehealthzones.com/ Follow us on Instagram here ---> https://www.instagram.com/dhealthzone/ Follow us on Facebook here ----> https://www.facebook.com/thehealthzoneshow/ Follow us on Twitter here ---> https://twitter.com/dhealthzone Subscribe to our YouTube channel here ---> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbZXDYJF_ypdjEmQk-BEIg ---> Join our Facebook Group here ---> https://www.facebook.com/groups/thehealthzone/
Christina tells us:
✓ How she is not bitter and angry about the things that happened to her and how she overcame them.
✓ How when her brother came to find her at the convent and he was told she was dead.
✓ How she had cancer and fought through it.
✓ How you can hate the world and society and blame everybody or you use your terrible experiences in a very constructive way in the world.
✓ How she is a big lover of Barry's tea and Cork in Ireland.
✓ And how she will never regret the road that she took because over 700,000 kids have their life back in real terms.
Christina Noble is the founder and driving force behind the Christina Noble Children's Foundation. Christina's passion for children's rights is rooted in her own upbringing. She knows what it's like to be young, homeless and desperate. Born in Ireland into the slums of Dublin on 23 December 1944, she and five siblings were raised by their mother while their father frittered away what little money the family had on drinking in pubs.
The death of her mother when Christina was 10 years old brought about the separation of Christina and her three younger siblings, as they
were all sent to different orphanages. Christina spent four desperate years in the west of Ireland in an institution being led to believe that her brothers and sisters were dead. Her escape brought her to Phoenix Park in Dublin where she slept in a park in a hole in the ground she’d dug herself.
At the age of 18 Christina ran away to England to be with her older brother. This is where she met and married her husband and had three children.
It was during particularly low ebb in her life around 1971 that she had a dream about Vietnam.
"I don't know why I dreamed about Vietnam; perhaps it was because the country was so much in the news at the time. In the dream, naked
Vietnamese children were running down a dirt road fleeing from a napalm bombing. The ground under the children was cracked and coming apart and the children were reaching to me. One of the girls had a look in her eyes that implored me to pick her up and protect her and take her to safety. Above the escaping children was a brilliant white light that contained the word 'Vietnam'."
This was a dream which she would one day triumphantly fulfil, albeit 20 years later. In 1989, with the goal to assist children in need, Christina arrived in Vietnam.
“My decision was made. Here, my dream, my destiny, would be fulfilled. Here the pain and the sorrow and the anger of my childhood in
Ireland would be resolved. I would work with the street children of Ho Chi Minh City. I would work with the ill and the unwanted, with the lonely and the misbegotten, with the throwaway children of this war torn country. I would work with the children who were living as I had so long ago in Dublin”.
An award film, written and directed by Stephen Bradley, NOBLE tells the true story of a funny, feisty and courageous, Christina Noble, who overcomes a harsh childhood to find her destiny on the streets of Saigon, fourteen years after the end of the war. The film captures the drama of a life that has culminated in Christina Noble helping almost a million street-children and their families in Vietnam and Mongolia.
The Christina Noble Children’s Foundation is an international partnership of people dedicated to serving children in need of emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, educational opportunities, vocational training and job placement, as well as children at risk of sexual and economic exploitation. The Foundation seeks to maximise the potential of each child. This is accomplished within the context of the family and the community whenever possible and always with love and respect for the dignity of each child as an individual.
The Foundation is involved in numerous activities including medical care, educational assistance, community development, water tank provision, establishing and developing educational & medical facilities, revolving loan programmes, emergency assistance to children and their families, and shelters for all disadvantaged and street children, to name a few.
Since inception, Christina's Foundation has established 120 projects and impacted the lives of over 700,000 of the poorest, most vulnerable children and their families in Vietnam and Mongolia.
Christina still remains the principal driving force and inspiration and retains close personal contact with the children.
List of Awards received by Christina Noble and her Foundation-please visit - http://goo.gl/nB6Wj5
For further information, please visit the Foundation website - http://goo.gl/QYjDOi
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Wednesday Apr 06, 2016
Wednesday Mar 30, 2016
Wednesday Mar 30, 2016
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This interview was conducted by Micheál O’Mathúna who is a Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Media Relations Consultant and Radio Show presenter. He also conducts one-to-one coaching, group coaching and delivers transformative workshops in various areas of health and wellbeing. He is also the founder of The Health Zone, which an inspiring, motivational and educational platform to empower people to be healthier, happier, more authentic and realise their true potential in their lives. You can find out more about Micheál O’Mathúna and The Health Zone here.
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Richard tells us:
✓ How His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet said to Richard that he is his hero, and that he is a wonderful son of humanity.
✓ How he lost his sight when he was 10 years old because of a rubber bullet which was shot at him.
✓ What his experience was like growing up with no sight in Derry and how he learned to accept his blindness and turn it around to a positive experience.
✓ How he learned two things about forgiveness when he finally met the soldier who shot him.
✓ What is the purpose of forgiveness.
✓ And how sometimes people get justice but they are no happier at the end of it.
You’re my hero”, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet told Richard Moore, founder and Director of Children in Crossfire when they met on 17th July 2007 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Children in Crossfire. Gripping Richards hand the spiritual leader of the Tibetan Buddhists said” Whether you believe it or not, you are my hero, and a wonderful son of humanity.
In 1972, aged 10 whilst on his way home from school, Richard Moore, the founder of Children in Crossfire, was blinded by a rubber bullet fired at point blank range into his face in Derry, Northern Ireland. Amazingly, from childhood to the present day, he has never allowed bitterness to stunt his development. “I have learned to see life in a different way”, is how he describes his remarkable acceptance of what, for most, would be a debilitating trauma.
In 1996 he felt the need to harness all that he had learned and put it at the service of humanity, particularly children around the world who have been caught in the crossfire of poverty.
The story of Children in Crossfire has its roots in what began as a tragedy and ended as a triumph of the human spirit to overcome adversity. Since 1996 Children in Crossfire has supported projects in Africa, Asia and South America. Today Children in Crossfire work in Tanzania and Ethiopia and its main aim is to enhance the dignity and improve the lives of children suffering from the injustice of poverty.
Throughout his life Richard had a keen interest in broadcasting and is a qualified amateur radio operator. In 2009 he turned this passion into a reality and set up a community radio station called Drive 105 based in Derry/Londonderry. Drive 105 has gained the support of the entire community and is going from strength to strength, broadcasting 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
www.childrenincrossfire.org