Sunday, October 6, 2019
In-Ness
Church is about In-ness but God is about One-ness. Many people go to a certain church or connect with a particular religion because they feel that they are “in” the right place that will get them some good things here, or avoid bad things, and get to heaven. Their church is the church that has the true belief in God. Everyone else is, well, at least less correct, less in. God, on the other hand, is more about One-ness, as in God is a metaphor that goes beyond any language, thought or idea we can have about the Mystery. We can talk about the Mystery. It is real, but it is beyond our God talk. Dogmas and religions point to it, call it what you will, but the Mystery goes deeper than any God-talk. The One-ness idea is a way of saying that this Mystery unites us all and if we could Go deeper than our minds, into the Heart center of ourselves, we might stop hurting, competing, and abusing one another, treating other people as “other” and not as part of myself. Jesus connected to the Mystery, was One with it and called it “Love.” The followers over the centuries have done a lot a destruction in the name of “Christian.”
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for the "damaged goods" terry ryan CSP:
ReplyDeleteyour cold deleterious treatment has shown me the true face of your deathly ill power hungry church. I don't think you serve the heart of christ, but a power cult that has you on a very cold trip to hell, and i will never be like you, for practically everyone outside your tunnel-vision knows how to love and care, but you, sir, are a preacher to a sick laboratory of pridefilled delusionists.
I n the age where your own church refuses to pay you for being a priest, I advise you to quit the delusion-camp while there is still a chance of breaking free from hell's hold on all your sad and broken church and ( sorry to say, false monastery). Abandon the fallen church, as all saints have ever done.