An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world has enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed.
- Gandhi
Understanding others is knowledge
Understanding oneself is enlightenment
Conquering others is power
Conquering oneself is strength;
Contentment is wealth
Forceful conduct is willfulness;
Not losing one’s rightful place is to endure
To die but not be forgotten is longevity.
- Tao te ching 77[33]
Many themes we discuss in class surface in our daily lives for example in media (CBC), films,
books, coaching, marketing. and church
http://www.beaconunitarian.org/inspiration.html
Is it cyclical, linear.? Why do the themes seem to repeat constantly? Are we evolving?
We only have the information that has survived the wrath of historical occurrences, fire, censor, bans, translations etc... Is the truth and what is 'right' malleable? Is love really all there is? Why does it seem so difficult to attain the balance? Why is the conflict of opposition necessary?
http://www.beaconunitarian.org/the_beacon_201303.pdf
Probably because these are the themes that are the foundations of life, the common human experience. I noted early in the program that our texts present the "lego blocks of thought" building a foundation. Now we are moving into a place where thought shifts and the common thread weaves through the foundation.
Probably because these are the themes that are the foundations of life, the common human experience. I noted early in the program that our texts present the "lego blocks of thought" building a foundation. Now we are moving into a place where thought shifts and the common thread weaves through the foundation.
Is it cyclical, linear.? Why do the themes seem to repeat constantly? Are we evolving?
In the Freud text we discssed the idea that the genitals are the focus versus the heart and mind.
The Lady Chatterly's Lover novel is grappling with the TRINITY of heart, mind and sex.
In a talk on 'Aging to Saging' in church yesterday Charles James discussed the decent from mind to heart
http://www.sage-ingguild.org/newsletters/sample.html
Aging Is Not a NumberRam Dass said that all attitudes, mythologies, and perceptions that say aging is a problem, are the problem. The meaning of aging is found in life's final call to not miss your own life by merely muddling through what needs to be done.
Charles James has international certification to facilitate Age-ing to Sage-ing, enjoyable and powerful conversations about life in a safe and lighthearted environment. His presentations explore the quest for meaning and inner personal growth.
Chassidic thought contemplates the heart mind - lots of info on Jewish websites discussing this.
http://www.context.org/iclib/ic37/shalomi/
recognized teacher of the heart
mystical traditions
very deep I-Thou relating
Think Aurelius
The first step is to face our mortality. When I look ahead, I see the end. I’m going to die. Most people have an aversion to looking in the direction of dying. The future inexorably comes, and if I’m not facing it, I’m backing into it.
http://www.uua.org/documents/hoertdoerferpat/elderhoodspirituality.pdf
The model that I’m proposing does more than restore the elder to a
position of honor and dignity based on age and long life experience. Itenvisions the elder as an agent of evolution, attracted as much by the future of
humanity’s expanded brain-mind potential as by the wisdom of the past. With
an increased life span and the psychotechnologies to expand the mind’s
frontiers, the spiritual elder heralds the next phase of human and global
development.Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
All of us – children, adolescents, young adults, middle-aged, seniors and beyond –
recognize that we are a part of the process of aging. Until recently most Americans
accepted and understood aging as a process of gradually increasing personal
diminishment and disengagement from life. Schachter-Shalomi’s book
From Age-ing to Sage-ing
proposes a new model of late-life development – called sage-ing – a process
that associates old age with self-development and spiritual growth. Sages, he claims,
draw from the growth techniques of modern psychology and contemplative spiritual
practices of the world’s wisdom traditions. Schachter-Shalomi’s model of spiritual
eldering draws on three sources: models of the traditional tribal elder whose wisdom
guided the social order for thousands of years; state-of-the-art breakthroughs in brainmind
and consciousness research; and the ecology movement, which urges us to live in
harmony with the natural world.
draw from the growth techniques of modern psychology and contemplative spiritual
practices of the world’s wisdom traditions. Schachter-Shalomi’s model of spiritual
eldering draws on three sources: models of the traditional tribal elder whose wisdom
guided the social order for thousands of years; state-of-the-art breakthroughs in brainmind
and consciousness research; and the ecology movement, which urges us to live in
harmony with the natural world.
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