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From Flower come Flowers: Field Report from Kathmandu

Monday, March 16th, 2009

Hello, I am Kaurav (Khil) Bogati from Kathmandu Nepal. Nepal was thought of as a beautiful and peace country in the years before our favorite king was murdered. Late King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is regarded as the best king in our history. He was the source of authentic happiness in the minds of Nepalese people. After his untimely death our Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal which is now called Republic of Nepal is suffering from strikes, blockades, demonstrations, electric power shortages and lack of drinking water. In this crazy situation I found PROJECT HAPPINESS and Rolando Sandor.

Through the Project Happiness organization I am going to bring happiness to the students of Nepal so that it may spread all over the WORLD. I am the luckiest person in the world to work with this project. I also hope that soon we will all unite and bring real happiness which has eluded us in the past. Children are the golden star of our future. With good modern education and technology they can change themselves for good. It begins with personal change and then they can change their family society, nation and the whole world.

I work with the students at Tarun Secondary School. Because of limited resources and severe disruptions to the educational schedule, I’ve only done a few activities with the students from the Project Happiness curriculum. All students in this school come from humble families but are always looking for that golden opportunity to make their life better. I will not let more obstacles limit teaching positive education and to love other human beings. I believe we change the perspective of people for good, then automatically good creates greater good.

I along with my students, I wish to thank everyone at PROJECT HAPPINESS and everyone who is part of this great movement for lasting world-wide change.

Project Happiness Weekly Meditation: February 2-6

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Project Happiness Weekly Meditation: February 2-6
Obstacles to Happiness

I must be sincere and mention that I am hooked on Lorraine Rushton’s meditations and with seven meditations; these may guide our explorations for the weeks to come. The next in her series, which also follow the Project Happiness curriculum, offers a way to deal with Obstacles to Happiness. This week in our pilot groups we opened up our hearts to the heavier elements of life. As classical and contemporary thinkers point out, one may find temporary peace with transitory diversions, but true change and peace take place once we face our fears.

The time for change is now! And as dire news stream through our attention, we are free to choose to ignore the pain or face it and dissolve it with the intensity of our creativity. When the going gets tough, the tough get going and now is as tough as it has ever been. Unleash your creativity and energy enthusiastically. Always know that you are not alone. I leave you with a line from Walt Whitman. He writes in Blades of Grass, “I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”

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Looking for pod-safe music (?)

Monday, February 4th, 2008

It may not be your nightmare, but it’s mine. I’m the guy who maintains the Project Happiness websites. And whenever someone includes music in their video, I have to be concerned about whether the music has been properly checked and whether you have the rights to use it on the Internet. “Music wants to be free” they say – and yes, it’s true you can download music and then include it in your video without paying for it, but what happens afterward? If that music belongs to someone else and hasn’t been licensed (special fees – money!) for use in your video, then the owner can issue a DMCA “takedown” request, which we have to honor, and that means taking your video off the website. All your work was wasted. (And you’ll call me a jerk or something worse.)

We can’t even consider your video for public display without considering where the music came from.

How can you avoid this from the start? Simple – use podsafe music in the first place.

Have you ever used podsafe music? Please let us know where you got it and how it worked out for you. We’re going to bring up a page at Project Happiness that points to some of these resources, and we need your help and experience in locating them. Just ping music@projecthappiness.com to let us know. (Or post a comment on this article.)

Some examples to get you started: