WISDOM OF REFLECTING ON ROHR
Eastern thought is much more comfortable with paradox, mystery, and nondual thinking than the Western mind which has been much more formed by Greek logic, which is very clear, very consistent, and very helpful by also being dualistic.
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Now to Contemplate on Richard Rohr.
“Some Navajo traditional weavers include an intentional imperfection in their weaving pattern—a space sometimes called a “spirit line.” It is said to be the place where the Spirit moves in and out of the design.
The Semitic mind, the Indigenous mind, the Eastern mind understands perfection in precisely that way.
Eastern thought is much more comfortable with paradox, mystery, and nondual thinking than the Western mind which has been much more formed by Greek logic, which is very clear, very consistent, and very helpful by also being dualistic.
It seems to me that we first have to succeed at good dualistic thinking before we can also experience its limitations.
But many in the West just stop at dualism and then find themselves struggling to deal with death, suffering, the illogical nature of love, any honest notion of God, Mystery, or infinity.
In conversation with Tami Simon on her Insights at the Edge podcast, Parker Palmer shared
It’s been a long time since I imagined that I would ever arrive at perfection in this aspect of my life or any other aspect of my life.
I actually think that perfection is a kind of nightmarish wish dream.
If you think of it socially, the people who promise perfection on earth are actually the totalitarian dictators who want to run everything themselves and are offering a false promise in order to seduce people into some sort of political or social pathology.
And I feel the same way about spiritual teachers who promise perfection. I have never felt that wholeness, that human wholeness, a word that has meaning for me, had anything to do with perfection.
Wholeness has to do with embracing the whole of who you are, which includes your shadow as well as your light. It includes the broken parts of you as well as the whole parts of you.
Richard emphasizes:
Perfection is not the elimination of imperfection, as we think. Divine perfection is, in fact, the ability to recognise, forgive, and include imperfection!—just as “God” (whoever or whatever that is for you) does with all of us.
Only in this way can we find the beautiful and hidden wholeness of our own “true nature” (God) underneath the passing human show.
(ME: This “consciousness” is the pearl of great price in my opinion.)
Non dual thinking and seeing is the change that changes everything. It makes love, mercy, patience, and forgiveness possible.
“The Semitic mind, the Indigenous mind, the Eastern mind understands perfection in precisely that way. Eastern thought is much more comfortable with paradox, mystery, and nondual thinking than the Western mind which has been much more formed by Greek logic, which is very clear, very consistent, and very helpful by also being dualistic. It seems to me that we first have to succeed at good dualistic thinking before we can also experience its limitations. But many in the West just stop at dualism and then find themselves struggling to deal with death, suffering, the illogical nature of love, any honest notion of God, Mystery, or infinity.
In conversation Richard Rohr
Then to do my own reflection.
For Those Who ALREADY Have The Inner Grace.
To Contemplate.
To Consider.
To Reflect.
To Pause.
TO ASK BETTER QUESTIONS.
On some or all of the following;
Diversity.
Perspectives.
Equanimity.
Inclusive.
Excellence.
Wholly.
Totally.
Discernment.
True Nature, your own.
ONE CREATURE IN ONE CREATION.
Accept NOT agree.
PEACE FULL
WILDLY FREE
Choices & Priorities.
Enough is enough
Joy attracts joy
Like energy attracts like energy.
Drunks attract drunks.
Honest stoners attract honest stoners.
Whole and holy attracts whole and holy.
Joy attracts joy.
What energy are YOU?
And are you aware of who you are?
Moment to moment?
In any given moment?
ARE YOU LIT FULLY FROM WITHIN?
Do you attune to your own beauty?
Do you feel it fully?
Do you catch your own energy early?
Relax, NOTHING is under control in this one bare moment. If we are honest. With our true self.
So cease the reaching.
No force, no complex mind attachments or convolutions or complications. Simply be.
From love not for love.
Listen, receive, ask and clarify,
Choose discerning action,
Then rest and restore and reflect
then rise and repeat.
connect to understand,
not respond (or react)
Standards are NOT expectations.
Have your own wholeness (integration)
as your minimum standard.
NOT PERFECTION.
Be The Love.
From love not for love
Kindness is the highest discernment
Rule number one?
More trees, NO assholes…
Always be kind.
People who are full of love
Confuse people who are full of shit.
So simply be.
From love not for love.
Then increase the dose.
