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Comment on The Tibetan Book of the Dead by admin

admin — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:15:36 +0000

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Comment on The Buddha’s Way of Happiness by Imogene Martin

Imogene Martin — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 10:37:51 +0000

Great!

Comment on A New Song for a New Year by Roy Corral

Roy Corral — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 18:59:08 +0000

Thank you for this morning uplift from Carrie Newcoming … love the song and message!

Comment on The Work of Christmas by Brenda M

Brenda M — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 01:53:00 +0000

I, too, love quietly sitting early in the morning in a darkened room beholding the presence of a lit Christmas tree. The stillness of the room…and my body….heightens an awareness of a sacred Presence. Dismantling Christmas IS a reverent act, and each year the departure of the Christmas tree sends me into a temporary tailspin ….. And I am so very grateful to God that, once again, the season ushered peace into my home.

Comment on The Work of Christmas by Marcia Wakeland

Marcia Wakeland — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:12:26 +0000

Rebecca, this is a lovely reflection. I will share the poem with the Listening Post staff. When you asked Who and How can I help, I smiled to think I was given that opportunity through an invitation from Project Homeless Connect at the Egan Center on Wednesday Jan. 27th. Perhaps others are interested.. the contact is ppb@gci.net or 907-346-1991 to sign up or get more infe

Comment on An Altar in the World by Rebecca Johnson

Rebecca Johnson — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 02:55:22 +0000

Thanks all for the beautiful comments and reminders of how to practice reverence. You have blessed me deeply.

Comment on An Altar in the World by Beth Knight

Beth Knight — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:18:04 +0000

It was a great pleasure to hear this author in person recently. And thankyou Rebecca for a lovely post.
For me – i experience reverence when I am kind and gentle to myself and stop pressing so hard. As a professor at Asbury said recently: God is enough for me and I am enough for God. If I/we “get” this then life becomes more tender and we abide in God in a way that feels more loving and reverent.

Comment on An Altar in the World by Brenda

Brenda — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 20:35:27 +0000

I often sense a ” call to reverence” in my body. My head turns gently for no known reason……
and I am made aware of the Presence of the Sacred. This sensation is almost always wrapped in silence……and I simply sense it is an invitation into reverence.

Comment on An Altar in the World by Roy

Roy — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 18:53:33 +0000

Reverence (and everything else that practice entails) appear when I sit for meditation, when I feel my breath after a few awkward ‘hello there, breath.’ And definitely, when I walk, when a scene or image calls me, when I sit to draw or paint it, while I am in the act of drawing and painting, and after it, when I look at the result of my communion with Reverence.

As directee, I experience Reverence during an SD session between me and my SD.

The practice of paying attention is what I try to develop and cultivate in me. Drawing helps on that because it helps me see what I do not normally see. I would love to see like Thomas Merton –

“Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts, where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time.”

Comment on Moving Forward with the Impossible by Roy Corral

Roy Corral — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:34:49 +0000

Here is my impossible task — Violence has now become such a daily occurrence in our neighborhoods and across the world that not a day goes by that we don’t hear news of senseless killings. Guns have been blamed. Mental illness has been blamed. The Constitution’s Second Amendment has been blamed. There is so much blame. We’ve been kicking this can down the road for a long time now. Meantime, lives continue to be lost at the hands of those who do not value human life, much less their own. We see the horror on television, newspapers, social media … it’s everywhere we look. We’ve now heard the common line, “I thought this would never happen to us!” Anyone, anywhere can be touched by the hand of violence. Family’s continue to grieve for the loss of their sons, daughters, fathers and mothers. This issue has been politicized, and the arguments are fierce, and still nothing happens. The violence continues as it has from one month to the next, one year to the next, one millennia to the next. What is to be done? What do we do as a nation, as a community … and most importantly, as an individual? What is the resolution to this problem? I am profoundly confounded … every day.