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<blockquote data-quote="Childofmine" data-source="post: 625415" data-attributes="member: 17542"><p>Rohr is recapping the readings from Holy Week---below. On the list: YOu really don't know what life is until you know what death is. Isn't what we are working hard to do in this same vein? At times it has felt like a living death.</p><p></p><p>Remember: Transformative Dying</p><p></p><p>The truth is that it’s you who has to die, or rather, who you think you are, the False Self.</p><p></p><p>Finally, thankfully, you collapse into the larger self, who you are in God, the True Self, which is inherently beloved.</p><p></p><p>How much False Self are you willing to shed to find your True Self?</p><p></p><p>You really don’t know what life is until you know what death is.</p><p></p><p>“Surrendering the exclusivity of self-reference—in love, for love, arms wide open on the cross—[Jesus] emerged into Christ consciousness, transcending the smallness of self, obliterating the separation self imposes.”</p><p>— Kathleen Dowling Singh</p><p></p><p>Jesus crucified and resurrected is the whole pattern revealed, named, effected, and promised for our own lives.</p><p></p><p>***********************************************************************</p><p></p><p>Rest: Meditating as Practice in Dying</p><p></p><p>As St. Augustine taught, we must “die daily” to our small and separate sense of self. Kathleen Dowling Singh offers an invitation to practice dying through meditation. In her words, “We can sit to meditate with the intention to let it all go, inspired to explore what lies beyond self.”</p><p></p><p>“We sit deliberately, with noble posture and noble attention.</p><p></p><p>“We breathe. Progressively, we free our awareness from sensations. We free our awareness from the ‘I’ we imputed upon the sensations and the ‘mine’ with which we tried to claim them. We relieve ourselves of all of our mistaken identifications, loosening our attachments to them, letting them go.</p><p></p><p>“We liberate ourselves from illusions and, cleared of all that congested weight, the burden of being a self, we surrender, entering awareness that is spacious and quiet and uncongested.</p><p></p><p>“We just die into silence. Die to the past. Die to the future. Die to the breath. Completely let go. The silence reveals itself as refuge, as awareness that can be trusted, tenderly loving and resounding with the majesty and the mystery of the sacred.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>Adapted from “Living in the Light of Death” by Kathleen Dowling Singh,</p><p>Oneing, “Ripening,” Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 42-44</p><p></p><p>Gateway to Silence:</p><p>I lose my life to find Life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Childofmine, post: 625415, member: 17542"] Rohr is recapping the readings from Holy Week---below. On the list: YOu really don't know what life is until you know what death is. Isn't what we are working hard to do in this same vein? At times it has felt like a living death. Remember: Transformative Dying The truth is that it’s you who has to die, or rather, who you think you are, the False Self. Finally, thankfully, you collapse into the larger self, who you are in God, the True Self, which is inherently beloved. How much False Self are you willing to shed to find your True Self? You really don’t know what life is until you know what death is. “Surrendering the exclusivity of self-reference—in love, for love, arms wide open on the cross—[Jesus] emerged into Christ consciousness, transcending the smallness of self, obliterating the separation self imposes.” — Kathleen Dowling Singh Jesus crucified and resurrected is the whole pattern revealed, named, effected, and promised for our own lives. *********************************************************************** Rest: Meditating as Practice in Dying As St. Augustine taught, we must “die daily” to our small and separate sense of self. Kathleen Dowling Singh offers an invitation to practice dying through meditation. In her words, “We can sit to meditate with the intention to let it all go, inspired to explore what lies beyond self.” “We sit deliberately, with noble posture and noble attention. “We breathe. Progressively, we free our awareness from sensations. We free our awareness from the ‘I’ we imputed upon the sensations and the ‘mine’ with which we tried to claim them. We relieve ourselves of all of our mistaken identifications, loosening our attachments to them, letting them go. “We liberate ourselves from illusions and, cleared of all that congested weight, the burden of being a self, we surrender, entering awareness that is spacious and quiet and uncongested. “We just die into silence. Die to the past. Die to the future. Die to the breath. Completely let go. The silence reveals itself as refuge, as awareness that can be trusted, tenderly loving and resounding with the majesty and the mystery of the sacred.” Adapted from “Living in the Light of Death” by Kathleen Dowling Singh, Oneing, “Ripening,” Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 42-44 Gateway to Silence: I lose my life to find Life. [/QUOTE]
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