animated with divine love
"a world animated with divine love."
if you're interested in going on an intense and delicious head journey, filled with conscious language (language in which every word has deep meaning), please spend 27 minutes listening to this conversation, A Political Pilgrimage to Your Highest Self, between ken wilber and rabbi marc gafni. you can join the site for free for the first month.
here's a taste of what has me buzzing!
they go into detail about "no self" and "Self", using crisp, passionate language (watch me flail as i try to convey the essence to you!). a fundamental point is to embrace the infinite depth of one's story, of one's singularity... entering into the personal depth of one's human story..when one participates in the fullness of one's name is where one meets their divine name...
sacred humility
infinite uniqueness
a symphony of spirit
akosmic humanism... gafni talks about when the divine god voice speaks through the throat of moses.
"moses was so present in his mosesness, he was so fully there, he was so fully in his eros, that he merged with the divine voice and the divine voice flowed through him."
"what you're doing in the world is so incredibly important. opening up a whole world... and energetically in the world-- in the world of streams of sacred consciousness -- the weaving that you're doing eactually is moving something in the world..."
sacred holy battle
a knight of faith
comments:
Yes! I am also finding their conversation enchanting and transporting, and have been listening to it over and over this week, letting the words sift through. I especially love what they say about the holy Name, how it is deeply encoded in us to know that the name of every created thing, and the name of god, is the same name. (my current favorite name of god is "yah")
I made a copy to give to Rabbi Ted (http://www.betalef.org) tonight, and it was lovely to hear him describe in his talk the same communion between the divine and the intensely particular as Rabbi Gafni does:
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Christy Lee-Engel | Email | Homepage | 04.02.04 - 2:18 am | #
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emblematic of the path of creation ("which is how Nothing becomes Something"), the "Ayin" (Hebrew for "no-thing", the indescribable, spelled aleph-yod-nun) becomes "Ani" ("I", or "I am", spelled aleph-nun-yod). Ted thinks of it as "the Universe opening its I", Marc Gafni talks about "being infused with eros", with "I AM-ness"
And then plunging into the "infinite depth" of "I am-ness" is the path back from Some-thing to No-thing.
Happy Pesach, Ashley!
love, Christy
Christy Lee-Engel | Email | Homepage | 04.02.04 - 2:19 am | #
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hi Christy!
another thing that's been spinning inside of me and that i found myself in again after listening for the 2nd time, was how much more i feel conencted to verbs (as in "i am-ness" vs. "i"). i'm noticing how any way of defining the opening of myself in comunion with the divine, inculdes me "being" and not what i'm being. I think about that eternal question "who am i?" and how much that stumps people as they try to fill in all of the labels that define who they are...
the tricky part, however, is that all of those defining labels are perfect for embracing the infinite uniqueness in all of us. for embodying it so fully that we can dance intentionally and join in the symphony of the spirit.
looking at the words that i posted, i notice sacred humility. is that related to sacred vulnerability?
thank you also, christy, for giving me the link to rabbi ted. he opened such a key place in my heart at POP.
happy pesach, christy
filled with love,
ashley
ashley | Email | Homepage | 04.02.04 - 10:20 am | #
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I have an image of all of one's defining labels on top of and adjoining each other, forming the facets of a stone/jewel--beautiful (or not), unique, seemingly solid and bounded. Whereas the verb-ing way inspires in my imagination a sensation of movement, energy, permeable and undefinable interfaces. But maybe the labels are really transparent, if you catch them in just the right light.
I wonder if sacred humility, and sacred vulnerability, might have in common the quality of exposing/acknowledging/opening the tender underside, one's down-to-the-ground ordinariness?
love, Christy
Christy Lee-Engel | Email | Homepage | 04.03.04 - 12:37 am | #
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your words enchant me, christy.
"maybe the labels are really transparent, if you catch them in just the right light." and the different ways of looking at them is synonymous with standing in varying light.
ashley | Email | Homepage | 04.03.04 - 4:21 pm | #
