The Universal Christ
the Western and Christian contemplative tradition, starting with Thomas Merton in the 1960s. Now this new epistemology is explod ...
false shortcut to wisdom. What many have begun to see is that you need to have a nondualistic, non- angry, and nonargumentative ...
Love and Suffering as Ways of Knowing I hope you will forgive me for beginning this section with a rather absolute statement. In ...
most of us soon return to dualistic inner argumentation and our old tired judgments, trying to retake control. Most of us leave ...
in the way of our left-brain philosophy of progress, science, and development, which were very good and necessary in their own w ...
So Why This Interest in Buddhism? I am convinced that in many ways Buddhism and Christianity shadow each other. They reveal each ...
just “attending” a service, like many Christians do. Buddhism is more a philosophy, a worldview, a set of practices to free us f ...
My Methodology Epistemology is a science that tries to ask and answer the question How do we know what we think we know? Then Ch ...
Other Viewpoints We are also learning from other cultures that we do not “know” or contemplate only by quiet sitting and discipl ...
many give up too soon and frankly never truly meet the other—much less the Other. They just keep meeting themselves over and ove ...
But Why So Much Talk of Suffering and Dying? My assumption is that Jesus’s totally counterintuitive message of the “cross” had t ...
suffering is not a requirement for following Jesus, not a way to gain merit for eternity, not the proverbial “carrying of the cr ...
and something much better happens in the back of the line. You let go of your narcissistic anger, and you find that you start fe ...
17 Beyond Mere Theology: Two Practices Telling is not training. —Advice offered by executive coaches You have kindly allowed me ...
also learn to recognize how resistance feels. Does it take the form of blame, anger, fear, avoidance, projection, denial, an urg ...
faces, just as we learn to “bless ourselves” with the sign of the cross, and how anointing people with smoldering sage was almos ...
Practice I: Simply That You Are First, “take God at face value, as God is. Accept God’s good graciousness, as you would a plain, ...
Practice II: All Physical Reality as a Mirror Having looked at the objects of the universe, I find there is no one, nor any part ...
THE DIVINE MIRROR A mirror receives and reflects back what it sees. It does not judge, adjust, or write commentary. We are the o ...
Presence comes to us from Christ’s side, And then presence from our side knows what it needs to know. If that mirror is withdraw ...
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